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Banchory railway station on the Deeside Railway, Scotland, in 1961.The station closed in 1966. After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the Railway Mania, the British railway system reached its height in the years immediately before the First World War, with a network of 23,440 miles (37,720 km). [2]
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.
The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M. Oppitz, Leslie (2002). Lost Railways of East Anglia. Countryside Books. ISBN 1-85306-595-1.
The railway's huge deficit and the reputation earned during the Modernisation Plan fiasco for bad financial planning led the government to take firm action. In 1961, the Transport Minister Ernest Marples appointed Richard Beeching as head of British Railways with a brief to cut the spiralling losses. Beeching was a businessman rather than a ...
The Old Dalby Test Track is a railway in the United Kingdom which is used for testing new designs of trains and railway infrastructure. It runs between Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire and Edwalton , on the course of the Midland Railway 's route between Kettering and Nottingham which closed to passengers on 1 May 1967, [ 1 ] and to goods in 1968.
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
Cambrian Railways: 1962 Aberfan: Great Western Railway/Rhymney Railway Jt 1951 Aberfeldy: Highland Railway: 1965 Aberford: Aberford Railway: 1924 Aberfoyle: NBR: 1951 Abergavenny Brecon Road: Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway: 1958 Abergavenny Junction: GWR: 1958 Aberglaslyn: Welsh Highland Railway: 1936 reopened as Nantmor in 2010 ...
A section of B&TR's original main line was reopened during the 1970s as a test track for the Tyne and Wear Metro rolling stock and is now largely preserved (between Percy Main and Middle Engine Lane) as the North Tyneside Steam Railway. Bolton and Leigh Railway: Kenyon Junction to Bolton 29 March 1954 (to passengers) 1969 (to all traffic)