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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 ...
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.
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 available under ...
[10]: 11 The NP-affiliated Puget Sound Shore Railroad connected Tacoma to Seattle on July 6, 1884. [11] Rail service between Tacoma and Portland, Oregon (with a ferry between Goble, Oregon and Kalama) began on October 9, 1884. [10]: 12 The original line was extended south from Kalama to Vancouver, Washington, in 1901 by the Washington Railway ...
Operations map of the Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad during RailAmerica ownership.. The Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad (reporting mark PSAP) is a Class III shortline railroad that operates 158 miles of track serving the Kitsap Peninsula, Grays Harbor County and Centralia, Washington in the U.S. State of Washington, and is headquartered in Centralia, where the railroad interchanges with the ...
[6]: 16 BNSF sold the Tacoma–Lakewood section to Sound Transit for commuter rail use in 2004 for $13.4 million, with BNSF retaining a freight easement. [11] [12] This sale was part of a larger, $32 million purchase of 21 miles of BNSF track between Tacoma and the Nisqually River (at the border between Pierce County and Thurston County). [13]
A train has been named after a railway worker who overturned a racist recruitment policy, Avanti West Coast said. In 1966 Asquith Xavier overturned a decision not to employ him as a guard at ...
[9] Unsurprisingly, Beeching's plans were hugely controversial not only with trade unions, but with the Labour opposition and railway-using public. Beeching was undeterred and argued that too many lines were running at a loss, and that his charge to shape a profitable railway made cuts a logical starting point. [6]