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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 of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.
Since closure in 1964 Mansfield had been the largest town in Britain without a rail link. Stations at Syston, Sileby and Barrow-upon-Soar between Leicester and Loughborough closed in 1968 reopened in 1994. The Kettering to Manton Jn Line via Corby closed to passengers on 18 April 1966. A shuttle service between Kettering and Corby was ...
All four Beeching boys attended the local Church of England primary school, Maidstone All Saints, and won scholarships to Maidstone Grammar School, where Richard was a prefect. Beeching and his elder brother Geoffrey attended Imperial College of Science & Technology in London, where both read physics and took First Class honours degrees.
Beeching closures in Wales (157 P) S. Railway scrapyards in the United Kingdom (6 P) Pages in category "Beeching closures" The following 3 pages are in this category ...
In the event, the closures failed to produce the hoped for savings, or to restore the railways to profitability. In 1965, Beeching issued a second, less well-known, report The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes, widely known as "Beeching II", which singled out lines that were believed to be worthy of continued large-scale investment ...
During the mid 1960s, many routes were closed under the "Beeching Axe", plus some after the resignation of Dr Richard Beeching - most notoriously the Waverley Line from Edinburgh to Carlisle. In 1974, cross-border electric Inter-City services from Glasgow Central to London Euston commenced, with the completion of the West Coast Main Line ...
Pages in category "Beeching closures in Scotland" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 381 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The programme of route closures in the early 1960s, known as the Beeching Axe, included the closure of Liverpool Exchange. The Beeching Report recommended that the mostly-electrified suburban and outer-suburban commuter rail services into Exchange and Central High Level stations from the north and south of the city be terminated.