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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.
They are named for Dr. Richard Beeching, then-chair of the British Railways Board and the author of two reports – The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965) – that outlined the necessity [citation needed] of improving the efficiency of the railways and the plan for achieving this ...
The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle.The line was built by the North British Railway; the stretch from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849 and the remainder to Carlisle opened in 1862.
Border Union Railway: North British Railway (LNER) Carlisle to Hawick, via Newcastleton and Riccarton 1969 Part of the Waverley Route in-between: Bothwell Branch: Caledonian Railway Fallside to Bothwell 5 June 1950 Brechin and Edzell District Railway: Brechin to Edzell 27 September 1938 (to passengers) 7 September 1964 (to all traffic) Bridge ...
The Rawtenstall to Bacup railway line opened in two stages, from Rawtenstall to Waterfoot in 1848, and from Waterfoot to the Bacup terminus in 1852. There were stations at Rawtenstall, Cloughfold, Stacksteads and Bacup. The line was doubled in 1880, at the same time as the line from Bacup to Rochdale was also opened (closed 1947).
On 30 May 2017, the Campaign for Borders Rail published its Summary Case for a New Cross-Border Rail Link which was distributed to Parliamentary candidates before the General Election. [170] It estimated the costs of rebuilding the line to Carlisle at £644 million at 2012 prices and added that 96% of the trackbed remained unobstructed. [170]
The North British Railway was expansive, and was happy to take over the local line, and the result was the North British and Border Counties Railways Amalgamation Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. cxcv), passed on 13 August 1860; the capital for the BCR lines was increased to £350,000, and the act regularised the use by BCR trains of Hexham station ...
March 6 – Railways between Cambridge and Sudbury via Haverhill are closed by the Eastern Region of British Rail following the Beeching Report. March 20 – British Rail reopens the remaining section of line on the Isle of Wight, from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin, after electrification to the Southern Region standard (750 V DC third rail) using ...