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The first report identified 2,363 stations and 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of railway line for closure, amounting to 55% of stations, 30% of route miles, and the loss of 67,700 British Rail jobs, [1] with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport and reducing the rail ...
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.
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
This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom, examples exist of opened railways which formerly constituted cross-country main trunk lines as well as many more which served more local, or exclusively industrial, needs.
Others have taken a different view. In her book British Rail: The Nation's Railway, Tanya Jackson argues that the Modernisation Plan laid the foundations of the highly successful Inter-City operation as well as planting the seeds of modern industrial design in the railway organisation. This was to lead to British Rail producing its benchmark ...
The UK was ranked eighth among national European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index for intensity of use, quality of service and safety performance. [11] To cope with increasing passenger numbers, there is a large programme of upgrades to the network, including Thameslink , Crossrail , electrification of lines , in-cab ...
Great Western Railway: 1985 Aberthaw High Level: Barry Railway: 1964 Aberthaw Low Level: Taff Vale Railway: 1930 Aberthin Platform: Taff Vale Railway: 1920 Abertillery (1st) GWR: 1893 Abertillery (2nd) GWR: 1962 Abertridwr: Rhymney Railway: 1964 Abertysswg: Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway: 1930 Aberystwyth (Vale of Rheidol Railway ...
Railway lines in England and Wales, as of 2010 This is a list of railway lines in Great Britain that are currently in operation, split by country and region . There are a limited number of main inter-regional lines, with all but one entering Greater London . [ 1 ]