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 ...

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 ...

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The 1966 Beeching Cuts to Britain’s rail network effectively marginalised rural and remote communities across the UK, leaving scarred landscapes in the heart of villages and towns that tight ...

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First proposed by Brunel, the railway opened in 1867 but passenger services were scrapped under the Beeching cuts in 1964. Now a long awaited plan to reopen the railway has finally been given the ...

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Portishead Railway Station opened to passengers in 1867. The station was demolished in 1954 amid the Beeching cuts, which saw railway lines across the country axed when the network was nationalised.