Complex sentence: The station, like a great many across the country, remained open for goods traffic until 1964, by which time road transport had picked off all commercially viable trade, leaving the station as one of many money sinks identified by Beeching.
Split into simpler sentences: The station, like a great many across the country, remained open for goods traffic. It closed in 1964, by which time road transport had picked off all commercially viable trade, leaving the station as one of many money sinks identified by Beeching.