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Bookmark or Share- The Beeching Axe - The National Archives blogDr Richard Beeching was the man behind the plan, and became notorious for what many saw as detrimental and unnecessary cuts to a wonderful transport system, in the country which gave birth to the...
- 50 years after Beeching: the UK railway network todayRichard Beeching is the bogeyman of the trainspotters: a pantomime villain who is blamed for the desecration of Britain's railways.
- Beeching cuts - WikipediaThe Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.
- Beeching: Railway vandal or visionary? - BBC NewsHis name is a dirty word among railway enthusiasts, but was he actually ahead of his time? A night of programmes on BBC Parliament explores the legacy of Dr Richard Beeching.
- Letter: Why Beeching’s railways cuts are still controversialRichard Beeching, an experienced business manager, was appointed in 1961 to reform British Railways, a state-owned monopoly that was losing eye-watering amounts of money. He proposed...
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