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    The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring...
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  • The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s. Since the mid-1990s...
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  • Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very...
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  • substantial cuts to the network and to train services, with many lines closed under a programme that came to be known as the Beeching cuts. The Transport...
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  • stations and lines closed under the Beeching programme have been reopened, with further reopenings proposed. A second Beeching report, "The Development of the...
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  • 1960s many routes were closed under the "Beeching Axe", plus some after the resignation of Dr Richard Beeching - most notoriously the Waverley Line from...
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  • recruited an able, young metallurgist to work for him, Richard Beeching. After the war, Beeching went on to continue working for Ewart Smith at ICI. When in...
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    purposes and shortly began to be used for commercial purposes. The Beeching cuts had a significant impact on rail transport in Wales, closing a large...
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    under the control of British Rail. A number of the cuts to the Norfolk network predated the Beeching cuts by several years. In 1959 the Main Line of the Midland...
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  • of a considerable portion of the national railway network with the Beeching cuts. His involvement in the road construction business Marples Ridgway,...
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