941:, when questions were asked both in the media and also in the Commons on 28 January 1960; he made a statement to the House later that day confirming that the sale of shares was in hand and would be completed "very soon", noting that as part of the agreement he could be required to buy the shares from the purchaser at the original price after he ceased to hold office, if so desired by the purchaser. While it was reported that he sold the shares to his wife, she denied in a newspaper interview, that any transaction had taken place. It was reported that he had transferred his shares into an Overseas Trust. In July 1964, Marples Ridgway and Partners Limited were awarded a ÂŁ4.1 million contract for the "Hendon Urban Motorway" extension of the M1, in the same year that the company was taken over by the Bath and Portland Group. There was no evidence of any wrongdoing on anyone's part in this or any of the other contracts awarded to the company during his term of office, but it did lead to a sense of unease, not least within the railway sector.
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to and from the place or places in question should for the time being continue to be provided either in the same or in some different form or manner; and (c) that because of the unremunerative nature of the services which the
Minister is satisfied are desirable for those reasons (hereafter in this section referred to as "the required services") the Board cannot reasonably be expected to provide them without assistance under this section, then, subject to the provisions of this section, the Minister may from time to time with the consent of the Treasury undertake to make grants to the Board in respect of the provision of the required services for such period not exceeding three years at a time as the Minister may think fit.
2541:, "First, Marples decided to 'disappear' the Stedeford report—or at any rate, any recommendations he put forward (there appears to be some debate as to whether an actual report was produced). As noted by Henshaw, 'The findings of the Stedeford Committee remained such a well kept secret that even Barbara Castle was unable to see them on becoming Minister of Transport in 1966' (22). In fact, we now know that Stedeford actually proposed that the government should set up another body whose task it would be '... to consider the size and pattern of the railway system required to meet current and foreseeable needs, in the light of developments and trends in other forms of transport ... and other relevant considerations'".
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Investments Ltd. Members: Mr. C. F. Kearton, O.B.E., Joint
Managing Director, Courtaulds, Dr. R. Beeching, A.R.C.S., B.Sc, Ph.D., Technical Director of I.C.I., Mr. H. A. Benson, C.B.E., F.C.A., partner in Cooper Bros., chartered accountants. The Treasury and the Ministry of Transport will also be represented. The task of the advisory body will be to examine the structure, finance and working of the organisations at present controlled by the Commission and to advise the Minister of Transport and the British Transport Commission, as a matter of urgency, how effect can best be given to the Government's intentions as indicated in the Prime Minister's statement.
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shares. It has taken some time to arrange this as the company is a private one engaged in long-term contracts in civil engineering, but I hope that it will be completed very soon. Then I shall have no financial interest in the company. But I think that I should tell the House that the prospective purchasers have required me to undertake to buy the shares back from them at the price they are to pay if they ask me to do so after I have ceased to hold office. I myself have no option to buy the shares back. I have not, of course, had anything whatsoever to do with any tenders put in by the company while I have been a member of the
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822:" policy that replaced rail services with buses also failed. In many cases the replacement bus services were slower and less convenient than the trains they were meant to replace, and so were unpopular. Replacement bus services were often run between the (now disused) station sites (some of which were some distance from the population centres they served), thus losing any potential advantage over the closed rail service. Most replacement bus services lasted less than two years before they were removed due to a lack of patronage, leaving large parts of the country with no public transport.
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year. However, the precise savings from closures are impossible to calculate. The
Ministry of Transport subsequently estimated that rail operating costs had been cut by over ÂŁ100 million in the wake of the Beeching Report but that much of this had been swallowed up by increased wages. Some of the branches closed acted as feeders to the main lines, and that feeder traffic was lost when the branches closed; the financial significance of this is debatable, for over 90% of the railways' 1960 traffic was carried on lines which remained open ten years later.
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965:, Sir Ivan's report was not published at the time. In December 1960 questions were asked in the Lords about this "secret" and "under-the-counter" study group, criticising the continued withholding of the report and its recommendations. It was later suggested that Stedeford had recommended that the government should set up another body "to consider the size and pattern of the railway system required to meet current and foreseeable needs, in the light of developments and trends in other forms of transport ... and other relevant considerations".
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2458:, "A more critical interpretation is that after Macmillan named Marples as Minister of Transport, Britain’s transport policy swerved to the right, and became motivated by the kind of conflict of interest that Thompson notes can be loosely regarded as a form of corruption (9). Actually, in this case it may well have been a rather tight form of corruption. At the time that he was named minister, Marples owned 64,000 of the 80,000 shares of Marples Ridgeway, a civil engineering firm that specialised in building roads".
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man. Indeed, I exercised some influence in getting him appointed as a
Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he did good work. I have no prejudice; but I do not like the way the Government have handled it. They have never published the terms of reference, and I cannot believe that there are not any. They are refusing to publish the Report. In fact, they do not wholly admit that there is a Report; but there are recommendations, and they have not been published...
973:, the previous chairman of the BTC, ÂŁ14,000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time. At that time the government was seeking outside talent to sort out the huge problems of the railway network, and he was confident that he could make the railways pay for themselves, but his salary, at 35 times that of many railway workers, has been described as a "political disaster".
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property demonstrates that the report was short-sighted. On the other hand, retaining a railway on these routes, which would obviously have increased maintenance costs, might not have earned enough to justify that greater cost. As demand for rail has grown since the 1990s, the failure to preserve the routes of closed lines, such as the one between
Bedford and Cambridge, which was closed despite Beeching recommending its retention, has been criticised.
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open to argument to romantic notions of rural
England or the warp and weft of the train in our national identity. He didn't buy any of that. He went for a straightforward profit and loss approach and some claim we are still reeling from that today". Beeching was unrepentant about his role in the closures: "I suppose I'll always be looked upon as the axe man, but it was surgery, not mad chopping".
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journey. Similarly for freight: without branch lines, the railways' ability to transport goods "door to door" was dramatically reduced. As in the passenger model, it was assumed that lorries would pick up goods and transport them to the nearest railhead, where they would be taken across the country by train, unloaded onto another lorry and taken to their destination. The development of the
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988:, which took over on 1 January 1963, with Dr Beeching as its first chairman. The Act put in place measures that simplified the process of closing railways by removing the need for the pros and cons of each case to be heard in detail. It was described as the "most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the
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development and intensive utilisation of a more limited trunk route system". Of the 7,500 miles (12,100 km) of trunk route, 3,700 miles (6,000 km) involves a choice between two routes, 700 miles (1,100 km) a choice of three, and over a further 700 miles (1,100 km) a choice of four. In
Scotland, only the
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signalboxes (again fully staffed, often throughout the day). Operating costs could have been reduced by reducing staff and removing redundant services on these lines while keeping the stations open. This has since been successfully achieved by
British Rail and its successors on lesser-used lines that
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Beeching's reports made no recommendations about the handling of land after closures. British Rail operated a policy of disposing of land that was surplus to requirements. Many bridges, cuttings and embankments have been removed and the land sold for development. Closed station buildings on remaining
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Out of 18,000 miles (29,000 km) of railway, Beeching recommended that 6,000 miles (9,700 km)—mostly rural and industrial lines—should be closed entirely, and that some of the remaining lines should be kept open only for freight. A total of 2,363 stations were to close, including 435 already
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led to rapid growth in car ownership and use. Vehicle mileage grew at a sustained annual rate of 10% between 1948 and 1964. In contrast, railway traffic remained steady during the 1950s but the economic situation steadily deteriorated, with labour costs rising faster than income and fares and freight
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necessary to keep the network running. The second report identified a small number of major routes for significant investment. Such was the scale of these cuts that the programme came to be colloquially referred to as the
Beeching Axe, though the 1963 report also recommended some less well-publicised
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Lord Morrison of Lambeth: ... There has been appointed a highly secret, "under-the-counter" study group of the railways, the Stedeford Advisory Group. Now do not let it be thought that I have any prejudice against Sir Ivan Stedeford. I have a great respect for him: I think he is a very able business
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The first report was accepted by the Conservative government of the day, which argued that many services could be provided more effectively by buses. Most recommendations were subsequently taken forward by the Labour government elected in 1964, but many of the proposed closures sparked protests from
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Mr R. Mellish: ... Is aware that there has been a Press report, which I am unable to confirm or deny, that the Minister of Transport was in fact the senior partner of a firm of contractors which has obtained a contract worth ÂŁ250,000 and that we understand, according to this Press report, that the
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in physics, had been appointed to the main board of ICI at the age of 43. The board consisted of senior figures in British businesses, and none of the board had previous knowledge or experience of the railway industry. Stedeford and Beeching clashed on a number of issues, but the future size of the
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Beeching first studied traffic flows on all lines to identify "the good, the bad, and the indifferent". His analysis showed that the least-used 1,762 stations had annual passenger receipts of less than ÂŁ2,500 each (ÂŁ73,000 as of 2024), that over half of the 4,300 stations open to passengers in 1960
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The first report identified 2,363 stations and 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of railway line for closure, amounting to 55% of stations, 30% of route miles, and the loss of 67,700 British Rail jobs, with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition
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which said that a profitable railway could be achieved only by closing much of what remained. The report's infamous "Option A" proposed greatly increasing fares and reducing the rail network to a mere 1,630 miles (2,620 km), leaving only 22 miles (35 km) of railway in Wales (a section of
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after 13 years of Conservative government. During the election campaign Labour had promised to halt rail closures if elected, but it quickly backtracked, and later oversaw some of the most controversial closures. Tom Fraser was appointed Minister of Transport, but was replaced by Barbara Castle in
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By 1968, the railways had not been restored to profitability and Beeching's approach appeared to many to have failed. It has been suggested that by closing almost a third of the network Beeching achieved a saving of just ÂŁ30 million, whilst overall losses were running in excess of ÂŁ100 million per
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comments that history has been somewhat unkind to "Britain's most hated civil servant", by forgetting that Beeching proposed a much better bus service that ministers never delivered, and that in some ways he was used to do their "dirty work for them". Hislop describes him as "a technocrat wasn't
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The assumption at the time was that car owners would drive to the nearest railhead (which was usually the junction where the closed branch line would otherwise have taken them) and continue their journey onwards by train. In practice, having left home in their cars, people used them for the whole
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Protests resulted in the saving of some stations and lines, but the majority were closed as planned. Beeching's name remains associated with the mass closure of railways and the loss of many local services in the period that followed. A few of these routes have since reopened. Some short sections
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The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples): ... When I became Minister of Transport, last October, I realised that there was a risk of a conflict of interest appearing to arise in consequence of my holding a controlling interest in the company. I immediately took steps to effect a sale of my
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Underpinning Beeching's proposals was his belief that there was too much duplication in the railway network: "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
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the way to run a country?". The Daily Mail reassuringly observed "Dr Beeching rides the storm", while the Mirror calmly stuck to the facts. These were that Dr Richard Beeching, technical director of ICI, had been appointed head of the British Railways Board at a salary of ÂŁ24,000 per annum ...
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In accordance with the statement which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made on 10th March, I have now appointed the body which will advise me and the British Transport Commission. It will be composed as follows: Chairman: Sir Ivan Stedeford, K.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, Tube
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takes its name from the Flanders and Swann song. It celebrates 12 of the most beautiful and historic journeys in Britain, some of which were saved from the Beeching cuts. It perpetuated the myth that the Beeching cuts were concerned solely with sleepy rural branch lines, but they actually also
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was planned to close, leaving Leicester and Derby without a rail link, while the East Coast Main Line, part of the key London/Edinburgh link, was intended to be cut north of Newcastle. The report was published on 20 January 1983 and received an immediate backlash from the media. It was quietly
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Many redundant structures from closed lines remain, such as bridges over other lines and drainage culverts. They often require maintenance as part of the rail infrastructure while providing no benefit. Critics of Beeching argue that the lack of recommendations on the handling of closed railway
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By 1961, losses were running at ÂŁ300,000 a day, despite the fact that since nationalisation in 1948, 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of line had been closed, railway staff numbers had fallen 26% from 648,000 to 474,000, and the number of railway wagons had fallen 29% from 1,200,000 to 848,000.
272:, traffic levels would increase, and the system was predicted to be back in profit by 1962. Instead losses mounted, from ÂŁ68 million in 1960 to ÂŁ87 million in 1961, and ÂŁ104 million in 1962 (ÂŁ2.8 billion in 2023 terms). The BTC could no longer pay the interest on its loans.
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right hon. Gentleman is now trying to dispose of the shares he has. In a case of this kind, does not the right hon. Gentleman think it most improper, at any rate, that any Minister of the Crown should be associated with any company with which such a contract is placed?
233:(BTC) was formed in 1949 with a brief to close the least-used branch lines. This resulted in the loss (or conversion to freight-only operation) of some 3,318 miles (5,340 km) of railway between 1948 and 1962. The most significant closure was that of the former
195:, then President of the Board of Trade, argued that the country's railways did not have a future without rationalisation and amalgamation. By 1914, the railways had some significant problems, such as a lack of standard rolling stock and too many duplicated routes.
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became a matter of concern to both the public and politicians. As is customary, he resigned as a director of the company in 1951 on becoming a junior minister, but he only disposed of his shares in the company in 1960 after the company won a contract to build the
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between Manchester and Sheffield in 1981, after the decline of the freight traffic (mostly coal) on which it had relied. Many surviving lines were rationalised, including reduction to single track and consolidation of signals. Most of the Oxford–Cambridge
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made provision for grants to be paid in relation to loss-making lines and services, but many of the services and railway lines that would have qualified had already been closed. A number of branch lines and local services were saved by this legislation.
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Line closures had been running at about 150–300 miles per year between 1950 and 1961. They peaked at 1,000 miles (1,600 km) in 1964 and came to a virtual halt by the early 1970s. One of the last major closures was the 98-mile (158 km)
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Marples then appointed Beeching as Chairman of the British Transport Commission in March 1961. He would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at ICI, the controversial sum of ÂŁ24,000 (ÂŁ675,000 in 2023 terms), ÂŁ10,000 more than Sir
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railway system was not one of them. For all the suspicion it aroused, the committee had little to say on this and the government was already convinced of the need to reduce the size of the rail network. In spite of questions being asked in
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Holiday and coastal resorts were severely affected by the closures. The report recommended closing almost all services along the coasts of north Devon, Cornwall and East Anglia aside from Norwich to Great Yarmouth. All services on the
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between Oxford and Worcester has increased significantly, and double track has now been reinstated on the Golden Valley Line, partly to facilitate a diversionary route during electrification and other works on the Severn tunnel line.
187:, with a network of 23,440 miles (37,720 km). The network had opened up major travel opportunities for the entire country that had never been available before. However, lines were sometimes uneconomic, and several
502:, then Minister of Transport. Beeching denied this, pointing out that he had returned early to ICI as he would not have had enough time to undertake an in-depth transport study before the formal end of his secondment.
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956:(ICI), was asked by Ernest Marples to become a member of an advisory group; Smith declined but recommended Richard Beeching in his place, a suggestion that Marples accepted. Beeching, who held a
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in the mid-1990s, there have been record levels of passengers on the railways owing to a preference to living in smaller towns and rural areas, and in turn commuting longer distances (although
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established an advisory group known as the Stedeford Committee at the request of Harold Macmillan to report on the state of the British Transport Commission and to make recommendations. Sir
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lines have often been demolished or sold for housing or other purposes. Increasing pressure on land use meant that protection of closed trackbeds, as in other countries, such as the US
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or used for road schemes. Others have since been built over, have reverted to farmland, or remain derelict with no plans for any reuse or redevelopment. Some, such as the bulk of the
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carried five trains each weekday in each direction, carrying an average of nine passengers with only 10% of the costs of operating the line covered by fares; another example was the
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in 1959. In opposition to these cuts, the period also witnessed the beginning of a protest movement led by the Railway Development Association, whose most famous member was the poet
400:, he set out his conclusion that of the 7,500 miles (12,100 km) of trunk railway only 3,000 miles (4,800 km) "should be selected for future development" and invested in.
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had receipts of less than ÂŁ10,000, that the least-used 50% of stations contributed only 2% of passenger revenue, and that one third of route miles carried just 1% of passengers.
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routes and the lines via Fife and Perth to Aberdeen were selected for development, and none were selected in Wales, apart from the Great Western Main Line as far as Swansea.
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which had ten trains a day and five passengers on average, earning only 25% of costs. Finally there was the service from Hull to York via Beverley (using part of the
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decided that some rail services, which could not pay their way but had a valuable social role, should be subsidised. Legislation allowing this was introduced in the
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663:, Britain's largest "new town". Kinross-shire, and Fife especially, suffered closures not included in the Report, including the main line from Edinburgh to Perth.
1857:, p. 3, "Ever since major amalgamations started, the business of railways has been, from a financial point of view, a mixture of good, bad, and indifferent".
350:, which was). The line covered 80% of its operating costs, but he calculated that it could be closed because there was an alternative, albeit less direct, route.
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1845:, p. 2, "It is, of course the responsibility of the British Railways Board so to shape and operate the railways as to make them pay".
1193:, broadcast from 1995 to 1997, was set at a small fictional branch-line railway station threatened with closure under the Beeching cuts.
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29 April 1963, discussing the problematic financial implications of Beeching to councils on the provision of more roads and to industry.
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Not all the recommended closures were implemented. Reprieved lines include:
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435:; traffic to the north-east of England would be concentrated through the
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Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway
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1492:"The 1963 Cabinet Papers / British Rail: Beeching branded 'PR disaster'"
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After the war, the railways faced increasing competition from a growing
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Why Does Policy Change: Lessons from British Transport Policy 1945–1999
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2880:. Vol. 1 (Report). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
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from Ipswich to Lowestoft, which survives as a "basic railway".
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2769:"Table TSGB0101: Passenger transport by mode, annual from 1952"
2748:"Andrew Adonis – 2019 Speech to the IPPR on Reversing Beeching"
1951:"The Second Stage of Dr. Beeching's Reorganisation Proposals".
834:, improvements in lorries and the economic costs of having two
2894:. Vol. 2 (Maps). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
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After this period, "residual" Beeching closures took place:
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changes; including a switch to the now-standard practice of
2381:. House of Commons. 28 January 1960. Vol. 616 cc. 380–381.
2126:"Rail Engineer article – Derailed: The complicity dividend"
2047:"Borders to Edinburgh railway: Track laying gets under way"
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3195:(2nd ed.). Hawes: Leading Edge Press and Publishing.
2606:"Section 39: Grants for unremunerative passenger services"
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2806:"Michael Williams: So much pain in our love of the train"
2692:"The 'bad news' report that helped build today's railway"
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2478:. House of Commons. 6 April 1960. Vol. 621 cc. 393–394.
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1761:. House of Commons. 21 March 1961. Vol. 637 cc. 223–343.
1633:. Department for Transport. 23 June 2011. Archived from
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Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
2524:. House of Lords. 7 December 1960. Vol. 227 cc. 74–78.
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List of heritage railway stations in the United Kingdom
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History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date
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The report starts by quoting the brief provided by the
3352:"Financial Scandal, Corruption and Censorship: Part 3"
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2359:. House of Commons. 28 January 1960. Vol. 616 c. 372.
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2403:. House of Commons. 11 November 1964. Vol 701 c. 64W.
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in November 1965 that Beeching had been dismissed by
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After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the
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2421:. House of Commons. 21 April 1967. Vol. 745 c. 173W.
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1810:"The Reshaping of British Railways – Part 1: Report"
1694:"Department details: AH/37 (British Railways Board)"
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2937:The Development Of The Major Railway Trunk Routes
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2666:"The fall and rise of Britain's railways: Part 5"
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1929:, pp. 141–148, Appendix 4 – The Liner Train.
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1236:An abandoned stone bridge spans the route of the
757:A demolition train during the dismantling of the
398:The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes
370:The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes
106:The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes
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175:, Scotland, in 1961. The station closed in 1966.
3935:History of rail transport in the United Kingdom
2472:"British Transport Commission (Advisory Group)"
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1054:) and none in Somerset, Devon or Cornwall. The
1008:December 1965. Castle published a map in 1967,
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555:. One of the most significant closures was the
330:By way of example, he noted that the line from
130:, while others have been incorporated into the
97:and the author of two reports –
36:The overgrown viaduct across Lobb Ghyll on the
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1073:On 7 June 2019, former Minister for Transport
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659:closed despite its strategic location serving
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1132:List of British heritage and private railways
777:were closed, and were still in ruins in 2003.
260:promised expenditure of over ÂŁ1,240 million;
48:A nineteenth-century railway bridge over the
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2774:. Department for Transport. 15 December 2022
2353:"Ministers of the Crown (Private Interests)"
1771:
1708:
1700:. Kew: The National Archives. Archived from
1077:delivered a speech on "Reversing Beeching".
3493:A further Commons debate on Beeching Report
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2006:. No. 55661. 28 March 1963. p. 8.
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814:Replacement buses and proposed alternatives
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3504:Website about Beeching cuts in more detail
3078:British Rail 1948–1973: A Business History
2274:
2272:
1456:List of closed railway stations in Britain
1446:in 1976, and Woodside to Selsdon in 1983.
1103:Rail passengers in Great Britain 1829–2021
160:History of rail transport in Great Britain
3367:. Shepperton: Oxford Publishing Company.
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1966:"Mr. Cousins says 'We Sacked Beeching'".
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3121:. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas.
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2553:"The man who was paid ÂŁ24,000 a year"
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2445:from the original on 12 January 2022.
2098:"Rye-Ashford Area (Public Transport)"
1989:
1981:"Lord Beeching: 'I Was Not Sacked'".
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952:, a retired former Chief Engineer at
518:, one of the first lines to be closed
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2718:"Britain's most hated civil servant"
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146:, have since been incorporated into
3586:Campaign to Bring Back British Rail
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3043:. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
3012:(2nd ed.). London: Ian Allan.
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3269:. Norwich: The Stationery Office.
3154:Beeching: Champion of the Railway?
3008:Daniels, G.; Dench, L. A. (1973).
2918:10.1111/j.1468-2230.1963.tb00706.x
2251:"Route Selection – East West Rail"
2225:"Route Selection – East West Rail"
990:Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854
903:general election of 8 October 1959
312:, was published on 27 March 1963.
308:The first Beeching report, titled
229:The Branch Lines Committee of the
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3363:Faulkner, R.; Austin, C. (2012).
3261:Department for Transport (2007).
2943:. London: British Railways Board.
2888:The Reshaping of British Railways
2874:The Reshaping of British Railways
2076:. The History Press. p. 35.
1175:" (1963). Michael Williams' book
310:The Reshaping of British Railways
298:The Reshaping of British Railways
286:The Reshaping of British Railways
244:Economic recovery and the end of
100:The Reshaping of British Railways
89:in the 1960s. They are named for
3851:British Rail Passenger Timetable
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3292:. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
3265:Delivering a Sustainable Railway
2074:1963: That Was the Year That Was
1490:Macintyre, D. (1 January 1994).
997:general election in October 1964
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691:Disposals of land and structures
346:, which was not closed, and the
3815:British Rail Telecommunications
3421:. London: Biteback Publishing.
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1970:. 17 November 1965. p. 12.
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771:Wednesbury Town railway station
710:needs additional citations for
516:Harrogate to Church Fenton Line
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482:ended early in June 1965 after
87:railway system in Great Britain
3810:British Rail Research Division
3082:. Cambridge University Press.
2899:Kahn-Freund, O. (March 1963).
1955:. 17 February 1965. p. 8.
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1238:Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway
880:. Traffic on the single-track
589:that no-one dared to close it.
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1905:, pp. 96–99, Appendix 2.
1652:"The Great Vanishing Railway"
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1150:North Yorkshire Moors Railway
1120:closed stations have reopened
1113:the cause of this is disputed
1080:
1059:shelved in the run up to the
340:Gleneagles-Crieff-Comrie line
300:report, displayed beside the
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3638:British Transport Commission
3191:The Great Railway Conspiracy
2551:Celmins, M. (30 July 1995).
2518:"Problems of Transportation"
2505:Dudley & Richardson 2000
1360:1,058 miles (1,703 km)
982:British Transport Commission
954:Imperial Chemical Industries
794:Acceptance of rail subsidies
563:to Leicester and Sheffield.
423:would be routed through the
363:intermodal freight transport
302:National Union of Railwaymen
231:British Transport Commission
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2952:British Rail after Beeching
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1244:, which was closed in 1965.
897:The people and the politics
775:South Staffordshire Railway
514:Prospect Tunnel lay on the
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3920:1963 in the United Kingdom
1376:750 miles (1,210 km)
1337:780 miles (1,260 km)
1196:In the satirical magazine
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759:Salisbury and Dorset Line
65:Chippenham and Calne line
3820:British Transport Hotels
3805:British Rail Engineering
3767:Railfreight Distribution
3152:Hardy, R. H. N. (1989).
3074:Gourvish, T. R. (1986).
1772:Daniels & Dench 1973
1408:275 miles (443 km)
1400:250 miles (400 km)
1392:400 miles (640 km)
1384:300 miles (480 km)
1368:600 miles (970 km)
1352:324 miles (521 km)
1329:150 miles (240 km)
1321:175 miles (282 km)
1313:350 miles (560 km)
1305:150 miles (240 km)
1297:500 miles (800 km)
1289:275 miles (443 km)
1281:300 miles (480 km)
1273:275 miles (443 km)
1265:150 miles (240 km)
204:Charnwood Forest Railway
169:Banchory railway station
3930:History of British Rail
3856:British Transport Films
3648:BRB (Residuary) Limited
3561:1955 modernisation plan
3039:A Walk Along the Tracks
1723:Clark, Gregory (2017).
1011:Network for Development
830:network, the advent of
679:, all of which closed.
587:marginal constituencies
557:Great Central Main Line
453:Great Western Main Line
264:would be replaced with
258:1955 Modernisation Plan
126:have been preserved as
3915:1963 in rail transport
3880:The wrong type of snow
3643:British Railways Board
3591:Great British Railways
3394:. Hersham: Ian Allan.
2885:Beeching, R. (1963b).
2871:Beeching, R. (1963a).
2283:. The Railways Archive
1812:. The Railways Archive
1432:35 miles (56 km)
1424:50 miles (80 km)
1416:23 miles (37 km)
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492:Minister of Technology
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200:road transport network
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132:National Cycle Network
95:British Railways Board
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38:Skipton to Ilkley Line
3896:Category:British Rail
3454:10.4324/9781315603568
3448:. London: Routledge.
3444:Haywood, R. (2016) .
3358:on 16 September 2013.
3284:Merriman, P. (2007).
3236:10.4324/9780203645871
3230:. London: Routledge.
3156:. London: Ian Allan.
3113:White, H. P. (1986).
2977:. London: Ian Allan.
2956:. London: Ian Allan.
2948:Allen, G. F. (1966).
2934:Beeching, R. (1965).
2901:"Transport Act, 1962"
2072:Cook, Andrew (2013).
2053:. BBC. 9 October 2014
1466:Specified local lines
1444:Alston to Haltwhistle
1235:
1227:Great Central Railway
1223:Rugby Central Station
1220:
1158:West Somerset Railway
1154:North Norfolk Railway
1130:Further information:
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1044:South Wales Main Line
1003:under Prime Minister
870:Ashford International
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348:York to Beverley Line
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189:Members of Parliament
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3874:The Age of the Train
3762:Rail Express Systems
3187:Henshaw, D. (1994).
2631:The Railway Magazine
2375:"Personal Statement"
1257:Total length closed
1190:Oh, Doctor Beeching!
848:Possible changes to
719:improve this article
624:Settle-Carlisle line
437:East Coast Main Line
425:West Coast Main Line
344:Yorkshire Coast Line
304:'s response pamphlet
280:The Beeching reports
270:electric locomotives
93:, then-chair of the
91:Dr. Richard Beeching
3839:Media and publicity
3390:Clough, D. (2013).
3323:Wolmar, C. (2005).
3162:2027/uva.x001649812
3035:Davies, H. (1982).
2176:, pp. 210–251.
2132:on 16 November 2018
1704:on 14 October 2006.
1637:on 7 February 2012.
1001:a Labour government
944:In April 1960, Sir
939:Hammersmith Flyover
909:as Prime Minister.
905:, their first with
884:between Kemble and
63:Part of the former
3622:Transport Act 2000
3612:Transport Act 1962
3607:Transport Act 1947
3350:EcoLogics (2010).
3117:Forgotten Railways
3010:Passengers No More
2698:. 1 September 2008
2613:Transport Act 1968
2434:"Reginald Ridgway"
2106:. 26 November 1970
1719:Retail Price Index
1246:
1230:
1205:The lyrics of the
1169:Flanders and Swann
1164:In popular culture
1138:East Lancs Railway
1105:
1097:
1019:Transport Act 1968
1017:Section 39 of the
978:Transport Act 1962
915:Postmaster General
882:Golden Valley Line
808:Transport Act 1968
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583:Central Wales Line
572:Scottish Highlands
570:Lines through the
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3784:Trainload Freight
3731:Regional Railways
3726:Network SouthEast
3721:Network NorthWest
3699:Services, sectors
3617:Railways Act 1993
3463:978-1-317-07164-8
3428:978-1-84954-500-6
3417:Loft, C. (2013).
3401:978-0-7110-3542-3
3374:978-0-86093-647-3
3334:978-1-85410-998-9
3327:. London: Aurum.
3325:On the Wrong Line
3299:978-1-4443-5547-5
3276:978-0-10-171762-5
3245:978-0-415-16918-9
3202:978-0-948135-48-4
3171:978-0-7110-1855-6
3128:978-0-946537-13-6
3089:978-0-521-26480-8
3050:978-0-297-78042-7
3019:978-0-7110-0438-2
2984:978-0-7110-0428-3
2905:Modern Law Review
2724:. 1 October 2008.
2646:Missing or empty
2507:, pp. 48–49.
2495:, pp. 44–48.
2441:. 29 March 2002.
2083:978-0-752-49231-5
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1435:
1187:TV comedy series
1177:On the slow train
1146:Mid Hants Railway
1126:Heritage railways
1056:Midland Main Line
1031:Margaret Thatcher
1027:returned to power
859:East Suffolk Line
836:break-bulk points
751:
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686:Critical analysis
628:Ipswich–Lowestoft
594:Tamar Valley Line
561:London Marylebone
443:; and traffic to
262:steam locomotives
193:Winston Churchill
128:heritage railways
54:Moray Coast trail
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