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  2. Beeching cuts - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Category:Railway maps of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. 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.

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

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    In her book British Rail: The Nation's Railway, Tanya Jackson argues that the Modernisation Plan laid the foundations of the highly successful Inter-City operation as well as planting the seeds of modern industrial design in the railway organisation. This was to lead to British Rail producing its benchmark Corporate Identity Manual in the sixties.

  6. List of closed railway stations in Britain: A - Wikipedia

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    British Rail: 2008 Aberdare High Level: GWR: 1964 reopened 1988 Aberdare Low Level: TVR: 1964 Aberdeen Ferryhill: Aberdeen Railway: 1864 Aberdeen Guild Street: Aberdeen Railway: 1867 (Aberdeen) Holburn Street: Deeside Railway 1937 (Aberdeen) Hutcheon Street: Denburn Valley Line 1937 Aberdeen Kittybrewster (3 stations of this name, on 2 lines ...

  7. History of rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    British Railway History. An outline from the accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830–1876 (vol 1. G. Allen and Unwin, 1954) Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalization of Railways, 1877–1947. Vol. 2 (G. Allen and Unwin, 1959); see online review.

  8. Rail transport in Northamptonshire - Wikipedia

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    In an effort to remove railway lines that were seen as unprofitable or an "unnecessary duplication" of existing railways, Richard Beeching, then Chairman of British Railways, began a reorganisation process known as the Beeching cuts in a bid to restore profitability and increase efficiency. This resulted in the closure of most smaller passenger ...

  9. 1965 in rail transport - Wikipedia

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    February – The British Railways Board publishes The Development of the Major Trunk Routes (sometimes known as the "second Beeching Report", although Richard Beeching had little input) which identifies routes to be targeted for development particularly for freight traffic. [2]