Plenty of this in Europe. In my country there's less km of rail now than there was in 1910.
France had 70000km of rail around ww1, now it has about 30000. The main (though not only) casualty was the rural narrow gauge lines ("local interest network") which got obliterated by car and low productivity (about 20000km progressively closed from about 1930 to 1960, a handful survive as tourist attractions).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
Which this politician who owned a major road engineering company was quite involved in