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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.
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]
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 ...
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
Frith's The Railway Station, 1862 depiction of Paddington railway station in London. In 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened. [21] Being the world's first inter-city passenger railway and the first to have 'scheduled' services, terminal stations and services as we know them today, it set the pattern for modern railways.
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
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 ...
Rail transport in Northamptonshire is an integral part of transport in Northamptonshire and part of the national rail network of Great Britain. Rail in the county of Northamptonshire began in the 1840s with the London and Birmingham Railway who built a section of the West Coast Main Line through the county, along with numerous branch lines.