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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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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 ...
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 railwayman and his high salary (particularly in a nationalised industry) caused controversy.
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 .
Faced with declining patronage during the first half of the 20th century, passenger services were withdrawn from the more northerly parts of the network (serving Blyth, Bedlington, Ashington and Newbiggin) on 30 July 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts, [10] but much of this part of the system was retained for mineral traffic serving local ...
In the United States, railbanking was established in 1983 as an amendment to Section 8(d) of the National Trails System Act. It is a voluntary agreement between a railroad company and a trail sponsor (such as a trail organization or government agency) to use an out-of-service rail corridor as a trail until a railroad might need the corridor again for rail service.