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Beeching Cuts
Also Known As Beeching Axe
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The Beeching cuts were the closure of railway lines and stations across Great Britain in the 1960s, recommended by Richard Beeching's two reports to the British Railways Board in favor of a smaller, more intensively used trunk network. The first report, published in 1963, identified 5,000 miles of line and 2,363 stations for closure, about thirty percent of route mileage and fifty five percent of stations, at a cost of roughly 67,700 railway jobs.
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Core ConcernThe 1960s closure of British railway lines and stations recommended to shrink the network to its most used routes 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Beeching Cuts
WikipediaDevelopment of Major Railway Trunk Routes section, second report 1965Quote, Development of Major Railway Trunk Routes section, second report 1965
The real choice is between an excessive and increasingly un-economic system, with a corresponding tendency for the railways as a whole to fall into disrepute and decay, or the selective development and intensive utilisation of a more limited trunk route system.
1. Wikipedia: Beeching Cuts
1. Wikipedia: Beeching Cuts
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