Here we look at how what became known as the Beeching cuts significantly reduced the UK rail network. Dr Richard Beeching sparked uproar in the 1960s when he closed 4,500 miles of railway line and ...

Many stations, including Oswestry, Ellesmere, Market Drayton and Much Wenlock were closed down, suddenly standing quiet, disappearing from maps all ... to stop the Beeching cuts, actually ...

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It's a far cry from the days when a map of Devon would feature an artery of railway tracks criss-crossing the county. Many of those arteries were cut as a result of the Beeching Report into the ...

It's a far cry from the days when a map of Devon would feature an artery of railway tracks criss-crossing the county. Many of those arteries were cut as a result of the Beeching Report into the ...

most of the cuts went ahead; 60 years on, they are still controversial. I think at least some of this is because no one elected Beeching nor voted for what he did, and it’s therefore hard to ...