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Such was the scale of these cuts that the programme came to be colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, though the 1963 report also recommended some less well-publicised changes; including a switch to the now-standard practice of containerisation for rail freight, and the replacement of some services with integrated bus services linked to ...
List of Beeching cuts service reopenings; S. Slow Train (Flanders and Swann song) This page was last edited on 10 May 2023, at 09:30 (UTC). Text is ...
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.
Others have argued that it was ministers, not Beeching, who were responsible for any shortcomings in assessing the social case for retaining lines and that economies had been tried and largely failed; also that the road lobby was less significant than the Treasury in making policy, and the Labour Party was funded by rail unions. [25] Beeching's ...
The Beeching cuts threatened closure but the line was reprieved at a hearing in 1964. [3] In its 1964 accounts, British Rail counted the cost of the reprieve at £133,000 (£2.4m at 2014 prices) [ 4 ] in a full year, plus £44,000 which could have been saved if freight was also withdrawn.
The Beeching cuts, or "Beeching Axe" that followed resulted in the major closures for both stations and lines. It may not be entirely a coincidence that as Beeching was closing railway lines, the government was providing funding for the construction of motorways, which were being built by companies in which Marples had an interest. [7]
The branch line to Eye closed to passengers on 2 February 1931, but the line continued to serve goods traffic until the 1960s. Mellis was closed as part of the large-scale Beeching cuts on 7 November 1966, when local services between Ipswich and Norwich were withdrawn.
As for 'Beeching cuts' being a new term (ie a WP:NEO) a quick search of the news archives on Google comes up with plenty on mentions as far back as 1963 - "Face lift for Beeching Cuts will have little impact" Glasgow Herald 1963. For the record, Hansard appears to refer to 'Beeching cuts' more often than 'Beeching Axe' (although Axe certainly ...