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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".
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.
This cutting currently forms part of the A22 relief road through East Grinstead. Due to the depth of the cutting, locals wanted to call the road Beeching Cut, but it was decided to call it Beeching Way. [30] In the late 1990s, a popular BBC sitcom, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, was set at a rural railway station in the shadow of the Beeching reforms.
Railway scrapyards in the United Kingdom (7 P) Pages in category "Beeching closures" ... List of Beeching cuts service reopenings; S.
Bennerley Viaduct first opened as a railway bridge in 1877 but was closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching railway cuts. Follow BBC Derby on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram.
Pages in category "Beeching closures in Scotland" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 380 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Beeching closures in England" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 942 total. ... Clifton Bridge railway station
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 ...