The 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...

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very...

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...

substantial cuts to the network and to train services, with many lines closed under a programme that came to be known as the Beeching cuts. The Transport...

stations and lines closed under the Beeching programme have been reopened, with further reopenings proposed. A second Beeching report, "The Development of the...

1960s, many routes were closed under the "Beeching Axe", plus some after the resignation of Dr Richard Beeching - most notoriously the Waverley Line from...

recruited an able, young metallurgist to work for him, Richard Beeching. After the war, Beeching went on to continue working for Ewart Smith at ICI. When in...

purposes and shortly began to be used for commercial purposes. The Beeching cuts had a significant impact on rail transport in Wales, closing a large...

existing railways, Richard Beeching, then Chairman of British Railways, began a reorganisation process known as the Beeching cuts in a bid to restore profitability...

towards Branksome. The original bridge was closed in 1965 during the Beeching cuts. On 27 March 1941, an Luftwaffe air raid in World War II hit the nearby...

of a considerable portion of the national railway network with the Beeching cuts. His involvement in the road construction business Marples Ridgway,...

restructuring programme of British railways known as the Beeching cuts (overseen by Richard Beeching), and though it has been disused since then the viaduct...

stages between 1993 and 1998. Following the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, the line had been freight-only. The cuts had left Mansfield as one of the largest...

during the mid-1960s. Dr. Richard Beeching was given the task by the government of re-organising the railways ("the Beeching Axe"). This policy resulted in...

throughout. The line's Engineer's Line Reference is SUD. Prior to the Beeching cuts initiated in the 1960s, the line, then known as the Stour Valley Railway...

repurposed railway viaduct (footbridge), the viaduct was affected by the Beeching cuts in 1965 with the rail-line connecting Whitby to Scarborough axed. It...

laments the closure of railway stations and lines brought about by the Beeching cuts in the 1960s, and also the passing of a way of life. Written by Swann...

closed on 26 October 1964. The line and its sub branch survived the Beeching cuts of the early 1960s largely thanks to extensive use by the military....

once a railway settlement, its rail links were closed as part of the Beeching cuts. The 2011 census put the civil parish of Polegate at a population of...

deemed uneconomic ("the Beeching Axe" of 1963), removing much feeder traffic from main line passenger services. In the second Beeching report of 1965, only...

financially viable. Concerns about the levels of these contributed to the Beeching cuts that closed down many less well used lines. The Transport Act 1947 nationalised...

Haverthwaite, with the route beyond to Ulverston closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts. It now contains the Aquarium of the Lakes, an aquarium featuring fish...

Railway at Castle Douglas. It opened in 1864, and closed in 1965. The Beeching cuts cut off the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway and Portpatrick Railway...

the branch line, via South Brent, was closed in 1963 as part of the Beeching cuts. An industrial estate now occupies the site of the former station yard...

officially named "Beeching Way". It has been nicknamed "Beeching Cut" as it runs through a cutting and was once one of the lines that Beeching cut. Much of rest...

introduced in the 1960s, and were one of the few innovations of the Beeching cuts, along with investment from the Central Electricity Generating Board...

Glasgow and London, but this station was closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching cuts. Station Park is now one of the furthest Scottish League grounds from...

passenger services since 1964, when they were withdrawn as part of the Beeching cuts. The Blyth and Tyne Railway (B&TR) was incorporated in 1853 to unify...

town's railway station closed to passengers in the 1960s due to the Beeching cuts and to freight in 1991. The now overgrown site is on the disused Leamside...

Although Portishead Railway's passenger service was a casualty of the Beeching cuts, freight service to the Royal Portbury Dock was restored from 2000 to...