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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 railway's huge deficit and the reputation earned during the Modernisation Plan fiasco for bad financial planning led the government to take firm action. In 1961, the Transport Minister Ernest Marples appointed Richard Beeching as head of British Railways with a brief to cut the spiralling losses. Beeching was a businessman rather than a ...
The Old Dalby Test Track is a railway in the United Kingdom which is used for testing new designs of trains and railway infrastructure. It runs between Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire and Edwalton , on the course of the Midland Railway 's route between Kettering and Nottingham which closed to passengers on 1 May 1967, [ 1 ] and to goods in 1968.
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
Cambrian Railways: 1962 Aberfan: Great Western Railway/Rhymney Railway Jt 1951 Aberfeldy: Highland Railway: 1965 Aberford: Aberford Railway: 1924 Aberfoyle: NBR: 1951 Abergavenny Brecon Road: Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway: 1958 Abergavenny Junction: GWR: 1958 Aberglaslyn: Welsh Highland Railway: 1936 reopened as Nantmor in 2010 ...
There is a cul-de-sac in the Leicestershire village of Countesthorpe about 7 mi (11 km) south of Leicester city centre aptly named Beeching's Close. Countesthorpe railway station was served by the former Midland Counties Railway line between Leicester and Rugby, although this was closed in January 1962, well over a year prior to the publication ...
Current railway lines in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man are shown in black, metro lines in red, and former routes in green Rail passengers in Great Britain from 1829 to 2023, showing the early era of small railway companies, the amalgamation into the "Big Four", nationalisation and finally the current era of privatisation