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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.
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]
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In 1965, Beeching issued a second, less well-known, report The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes, widely known as "Beeching II", which singled out lines that were believed to be worthy of continued large-scale investment. [19] This did not recommend closures as such, but outlined a 3,000-mile "network for development".
The Railway Haters: Opposition To Railways, From the 19th to 21st Centuries (Pen and Sword, 2019). Casson, Mark. The world's first railway system: enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain (Oxford UP, 2009). Clapham, J. H. An economic history of modern Britain; The early railway age, 1820–1850 (1930 ...
In 1849 he exercised effective control over nearly 30% of the rail track then operating in Britain, most of it owned by four railway groups – the Eastern Counties Railway, the Midland, the York, Newcastle and Berwick, and the York and North Midland – before a series of scandalous revelations forced him out of office. The economic, railway ...
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 ...
Manchester and Wigan Railway: Eccles to Wigan 3 May 1969 Mangotsfield and Bath branch line: Midland Railway (LMS/GWR) Mangotsfield to Bath Green Park (via Bitton) 1966 (to passengers) 1971 (to all traffic) A 3-mile stretch of the line, now preserved as the Avon Valley Railway. Mansfield Railway: GCR Kirkby to Mansfield 2 January 1956 (to ...