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South West. Stations reopened include Ashley Hill closed in 1964 was reopened in 2024 as Ashley Down, Ashchurch, Cam and Dursley, Feniton, Pinhoe, Templecombe and Yate. Service between Swindon and Trowbridge ceased in 1966 but two passenger trains each way were reinstated in 1985, along with the reopening of Melksham station.
A nineteenth-century railway bridge over the River Spey, closed in 1965 and now part of the Moray Coast trail. Part of the former Chippenham and Calne line, now a cycleway. 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 of the ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Railway scrapyards in the United Kingdom (6 P) Pages in category "Beeching closures"
Spouse. Ella Tiley. . (m. 1938) . 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 notable time was chairman of British Railways. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report The Reshaping of British Railways ...
Railbanking is the practice of preserving rail corridors for possible future use. Railbanking leaves the railroad, railbed, bridges or bridge corridor, and other infrastructure intact. This relieves the railroad's operator from the responsibility of maintenance, and from taxation. Existing rails may or may not be maintained intact on the ...
A few ceased to exist because they went out of business and were abandoned and dismantled. For simplicity on this list, Canadian National Railways (CNR) (pre-1960), Canadian National Railway (CN) (post-1960), Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), and Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) will be abbreviated for notations.
Rail regulations in Canada are set by Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency. The 2007 "Railway Safety Act Review" [1] was commissioned by the Minister of Transport [2] and its report provides much-needed background to this article, especially section 4.3. [3] The governance of railways in Canada is complex and has many tiers ...