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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.
Several highpoints and innovations did occur during this period. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Southern Railway invested heavily into railway electrification; [41] by the end of 1929, the Southern operated over 277 + 1 ⁄ 2 route miles (446.6 km) of third rail electrified track and in that year ran 17.8 million electric train miles.
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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]
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
History of the Great Western Railway Volume Two 1863-1921. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0412-9. Blakemore, Michael (1984). The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1401-9. Coates, Noel (1997). 150 Years of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Hawkshill Publishing. Gould, David (20 July 1987). The London & Birmingham Railway 150 ...
The Modernisation Plan called for the large-scale introduction of diesel locomotives: a total of 2,500 locomotives for mainline service to be procured in 10 years at a cost of £125 million (£3 billion in 2020), plus the replacement of much of the existing pre-war passenger rolling stock with over 5,000 diesel or electric multiple units or new ...
1830 – The Canterbury & Whitstable Railway opened in Kent, England on 3 May, three months before the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Built by George Stephenson, this was a 5¾ mile line running from Canterbury to the small port and fishing town of Whitstable, approximately 55 miles east of London.