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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 December 2024. Seaside town in East Sussex, England Human settlement in England Bexhill-on-Sea Bexhill Clockwise from top: Town welcome sign; Combe Valley Countryside Park; De La Warr Pavilion and Central Parade; High Street, Old Town. Official flag and coat of arms of Bexhill-on-Sea. Bexhill-on-Sea ...
The new Bexhill terminus would be 62 miles (100 km) from Charing Cross, while the LB&SCR's station was 71.75 miles (115.47 km) from Victoria. [4] The branch was absorbed by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1905. [5] The new Bexhill station was situated in a valley on the west side of Bexhill which had not yet been developed.
Since the Beeching cuts, road traffic levels have grown significantly. As well, since privatisation in the mid-1990s, there have been record levels of passengers on the railways owing to a preference to living in smaller towns and rural areas, and in turn commuting longer distances [72] (although the cause of this is disputed). A few of the ...
Pages in category "Beeching closures in England" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 942 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The line was recommended for closure by Dr. Richard Beeching in the 1963 Beeching Report as it attracted less than 10,000 passengers a week. [69] [70] Like other lines threatened with closure, there was strong opposition, and the route survived because the nearby road network made it impractical to run a replacement bus service. [71]
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.
It was built by the Crowhurst, Sidley & Bexhill Railway under the patronage of the South Eastern Railway. The Chief Engineer to the project was Lt Col Arthur John Barry . [ 1 ] Diverging from the Hastings Line at Crowhurst , an intermediate station at Sidley was served before the terminus was reached at Bexhill West .
Beeching's findings have also been reviewed in two books by his contemporaries: R.H.N (Dick) Hardy: Beeching – Champion of the Railway (1989) ISBN 0-7110-1855-3 and Gerry Fiennes: I Tried to Run a Railway (1967) ISBN 0-7110-0447-1. Both are broadly sympathetic to Beeching's basic analysis and the proposed solution.