Rail engineers working on upgrades to a railway station in Wiltshire discovered a series of mysterious tunnels exposing the station's hidden history ...

A long-lost Welsh railway line which closed 60 years ago has been recognised as one of Britain's most beautiful. Richard Beeching's "restructuring" of UK railways in the 1960s is arguably one of the ...

A few branch lines did survive the Beeching era. Dr Beeching wanted to see them all closed - he said they never had made money and never would. But anti-closure campaigns made the politicians ...

Armed and unarmed police officers were "threatened with weapons" by a man in an Oxfordshire town today. Thames Valley Police for South Oxfordshire were called to an address in Beeching Way ...

Thames Valley Police for South Oxfordshire were called to an address in Beeching Way, Wallingford at about 4pm today (Tuesday, March 4). Both armed and unarmed officers attended the address and the ...

The list was published on the 60th anniversary of the second of two influential reports written by the former chairman of British Rail, Dr Richard Beeching. Dr Beeching became a household name in ...

The list includes lines which fell victim to the restructuring of the railways in the mid-1960s, known as the 'Beeching cuts' after two reports by Dr Richard Beeching which identified thousands of ...

Written almost entirely by the recently appointed chairman of the British Railways Board - a hitherto unknown industrialist called Dr Richard Beeching - it proposed closing almost a third of the ...

A MAP has revealed if you are considered rich based on where you live, after a new report found nine in 10 Brits who make £100k a year don't consider themselves wealthy. The new findings from ...

Coming in at third place, the King's Lynn to Wisbech line was open from February 1848 to September 1968 when Richard Beeching axed 5,000 miles of railway lines around the country. READ MORE ...

The Season 3 update for Warzone is expected to be a huge one. To mark the game’s fifth anniversary, the iconic Verdansk map is returning much to the delight of fans wanting a hit of nostalgia.

In his defence, there was an element of method to what was perceived as Beeching’s madness: some of the 19th-century routes pared back by his knife had certainly outlived their viability. And in ...