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Mar 27, 2013 · His solution was simple - close down the bits that lost the money. The Beeching report recommended taking an axe to about a third of the network - 5,000 miles of track, including...
The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.
- Uneven Use and Effectiveness
- A Clinical Approach
- Freight vs Passengers
- New Customers
- More Than Just Closures
During the Victorian period, private railway companies eagerly built railway lines in competition with each other, but many would ultimately prove unprofitable. There were duplicated lines, routes which were underused, and many could not cover their running costs. Even before Beeching’s plans were published, the railway companies themselves had sta...
In his address, Beeching stated that an emotional approach to the railways was not helpful, and that there was far too much opinion and not enough understanding of the problem. The key to the whole problem was a proper judgement of the right role of the railways as part of the transport system as a whole.His plan would, he said, ‘create a system wh...
There was a clear distinction between freight traffic and passenger traffic. They were two distinct markets, and without freight the railways could not exist at all, but it was passenger traffic which excited the greater public interest. Beeching found that slow-running ‘stopping’ passenger services, operating over routes lightly loaded with any ki...
Beeching’s new customers would be the manufacturers of the rapidly increasing volume of semi-processed and manufactured products that at the time dominated the growth in the UK economy. In 1962 around 90 million tons of this type of product was being transported by road, which he argued would have been better moved by rail. Most of it moved between...
This was Beeching’s plan – a new balance between road and rail, built not on the ‘wild ideas of newcomers,’ but on those that have welled up from thoughtful railway managers. Beeching’s plan was wide-ranging and ambitious, taking in the British transport system as a whole. It was so much more than simply closing branch lines and stations, for which...
Sep 8, 2022 · Covering the period from the birth of British Railways in 1948 to the Beeching era and beyond, End of the Line chronologically traces the history of 467 long forgotten railway lines, region by region, from their opening to closure and in a few cases to reopening.
Jul 12, 2021 · A landmark report in the 1960s by then-head of British Rail, Richard Beeching, led to the closure of many stations. Stations across East and West Sussex were closed permanently and miles of track was ripped up.
The Sussex Railroad, operating under the DL&W as the Sussex Branch, began its slow, early decline in the late 19th century, owing to the discovery of better ore elsewhere in the country. Many industries and mines began to close in Sussex County, including the blast furnace in Franklin that shut down in 1900.
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Embark on a historical voyage with The Bluebell Railway as we trace the pivotal milestones that have shaped our heritage railway. “ Stepney ” arrives with our first coaches coming from the Brighton mainline to the Bluebell.
