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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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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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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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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British Rail (section The Beeching reports)
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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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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Frank Ewart Smith (section The Beeching cuts)
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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Slow Train (Flanders and Swann song) (category Beeching closures)
laments the closure of railway stations and lines brought about by the Beeching cuts in the 1960s, and also the passing of a way of life. "Slow Train" takes...
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Railways in Norfolk (section Beeching Axe)
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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