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  2. Beeching cuts - Wikipedia

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    The BBC TV comedy series Oh, Doctor Beeching!, broadcast from 1995 to 1997, was set at a small fictional branch-line railway station threatened with closure under the Beeching cuts. In the satirical magazine Private Eye, the "Signal Failures" column on railway issues is written under the pseudonym "Dr. B. Ching".

  3. List of Beeching cuts service reopenings - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Category:Beeching closures - Wikipedia

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  5. Category:Beeching closures in England - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Beeching closures in England" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 942 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  6. History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994 - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1980s, under the government of Margaret Thatcher, the possibility of more Beeching-style cuts was raised again briefly. In 1983 Sir David Serpell , a civil servant who had worked with Dr Beeching, compiled what became known as the Serpell Report which called for more rail closures. [ 28 ]

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    A train has been named after a railway worker who overturned a racist recruitment policy, Avanti West Coast said. In 1966 Asquith Xavier overturned a decision not to employ him as a guard at ...