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Passenger service on the Portishead Railway stopped in 1964; plans are to reopen it from Bristol to Portishead, possibly in 2028. Freight services ceased in 1981 (unrelated to Beeching) and resumed on part of the line in 2002. Camp Hill line, West Midlands, Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton: service planned to reopen in 2025.
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 ...
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In the early 1980s, under the government of Margaret Thatcher, the possibility of more Beeching-style cuts was raised again briefly. In 1983 Sir David Serpell , a civil servant who had worked with Dr Beeching, compiled what became known as the Serpell Report which called for more rail closures. [ 28 ]
However, there are proposals to reopen the line as part of the Governments strategy to reopen old rail lines in the country which have been closed in the 1960s or later cuts under British Rail. [ 1 ] References
The Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure for the Welsh Assembly, Ken Skates, confirmed in a letter to the Carno Station Action group in October 2017 that Carno was on the list of stations to go forward to Stage Two of the New Stations Assessment Program. [21] Plans to reopen the station reached the third and final stage in September ...
People living in deprived areas of England have suffered disproportionately larger cuts to bus services, according to a new report. Think tank IPPR North, which produced the analysis, said it is ...
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