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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 there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport.
Banchory railway station on the Deeside Railway, Scotland, in 1961.The station closed in 1966. After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the Railway Mania, the British railway system reached its height in the years immediately before the First World War, with a network of 23,440 miles (37,720 km). [2]
Media in category "Railway maps of the United Kingdom" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. Extract of 1889 Railway Map Showing Grosvenor Road station.png 315 × 396; 367 KB
Though it bypassed Guisborough station, special working practices were put in place that permitted trains to reverse onto the short branch into the station before continuing over the Middlesbrough to Guisborough line. Gwinear–Helston branch line: Great Western Railway Gwinear Road to Helston 1964: Section of the former Branch, now preserved ...
Cambrian Railways: 1962 Aberfan: Great Western Railway/Rhymney Railway Jt 1951 Aberfeldy: Highland Railway: 1965 Aberford: Aberford Railway: 1924 Aberfoyle: NBR: 1951 Abergavenny Brecon Road: Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway: 1958 Abergavenny Junction: GWR: 1958 Aberglaslyn: Welsh Highland Railway: 1936 reopened as Nantmor in 2010 ...
The Old Dalby Test Track is a railway in the United Kingdom which is used for testing new designs of trains and railway infrastructure. It runs between Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire and Edwalton , on the course of the Midland Railway 's route between Kettering and Nottingham which closed to passengers on 1 May 1967, [ 1 ] and to goods in 1968.
Before the Beeching cuts, there were three other railway lines that entered the town: From the north: The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway down the coast from Melton Constable to a terminus at Beach station; From the south-west: The Yarmouth-Beccles line from London Liverpool Street, via Beccles, terminating at South Town station;
The mid-1870s, saw the Midland line extended northwards through the Yorkshire Dales and Eden Valley on what is now called the Settle–Carlisle Railway. Before the line closures of the Beeching era, the lines to Buxton and via Millers Dale during most years presented an alternate (and competing) main line from London to Manchester, carrying ...