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, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring...

Oh, Doctor Beeching! is a BBC television sitcom, written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, and produced for the BBC. After a pilot for the programme...

"beech-tree" hence "dweller by the beech tree". People called Beeching include:- Henry Beeching (1859–1919) clergyman, author and poet Jack Beeching (John...

Richard Clyde Beech (1893–1955) was a revolutionary industrial unionist. He was the delegate for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to the 2nd...

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

Archive. Richard Beeching "The Reshaping of British Railways", p. 15. Lord Stoneham (1963). "The Economics and Social Aspects of the Beeching Plan". House...

(1951–1953) Sir Brian Robertson (1953–1961) Dr Richard Beeching (1961–1963) British Railways Board Dr Richard Beeching (1963–1965) Sir Stanley Raymond (1965–1967)...

Grinstead - Baron Richard Beeching". 21 February 2001. Archived from the original on 21 February 2001. "It looks like Dr Beeching was too hasty after...

to end the losses that were growing rapidly at the time. The Beeching cuts, or "Beeching Axe" that followed resulted in the major closures for both stations...

before the publication of 'The Reshaping of British Railways' by Dr Richard Beeching in March 1963. The East Somerset Railway Company was incorporated under...

the Major Trunk Routes (sometimes known as the "second Beeching Report", although Richard Beeching had little input) which identifies routes to be targeted...

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America. There are 13 accepted species in two...

ride on a buffer In Parliamentary trains. In 1963 under its chairman Richard Beeching, British Railways produced The Reshaping of British Railways report...

21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908) March 23 Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913) Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist...

estate named "Beechings" occupies much of the station's site, somewhat ironically given that it was British Rail Chairman Richard Beeching whose report...

September. He held the position until 1961, when he was succeeded by Dr Richard Beeching. In the end, the task of modernising the railway system proved to be...

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

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...

railroad corporations in defense of the small farmers. Richard Beeching – household name as chairman of British Rail (1961-1964) famous for Beeching cuts....

related to James Beeching. Covent Garden II (Caister Lifeboat built by Beeching in 1883). The Boys/Godsend (Caister Lifeboat built by Beeching in 1867)....

it was Dr Richard Beeching who, in his report Reshaping Britain's Railways, advanced the concept of containerised freight in the UK. Beeching proposed...

closed this railway as well. In 1962, on the recommendation of Dr Richard Beeching, the Government of Northern Ireland commissioned a senior Coopers &...

Gulf Coast Limited passenger train makes its final run. March 23 - Richard Beeching, chairman of the British Railways Board 1961–1965 (b. 1913). (June...

coach (d. 1997) Karl Rawer, German physicist (d. 2018) April 21 – Richard Beeching, chairman of British Rail (d. 1985) April 27 – Philip Hauge Abelson...

railway line closures in the 1960s known as the Beeching cuts. The scheme, named after Dr. Richard Beeching, the then chairman of British Railways, decommissioned...

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...

Technical School for Boys from 1924 to 1926. Richard Beeching (1913–1985), commonly known simply as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short...

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...

145. ISBN 0-7110-1469-8. The Reshaping of British Railways by Dr Richard Beeching, 1963. Manchester Ship Canal Railway - Detroit Bridge, Salford Archived...