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  • Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very...
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  • bike, 'cos I can't afford a car, Oh, Dr Beeching what a naughty man you are! The pilot for Oh, Doctor Beeching! proved popular when it was aired on 14...
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    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...
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  • have to buy a bike, 'cos I can't afford a car, Oh, Dr. Beeching! what a naughty man you are! Dr Beeching was a chairman of British Railways, who became a...
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  • known as the Beeching cuts, were dramatic. A third of all passenger services and more than 4,000 of the 7,000 stations would close. Beeching, who is thought...
    103 KB (10,123 words) - 21:26, 26 August 2024
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    to Craven Arms ceased in 1951. The branch closed in 1962, just before Dr Beeching published his report. The nearest active network railway stations are...
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    goods traffic, notably coal. In the 1960s, the line was considered by Dr Beeching as an unnecessary duplication of other lines that served the same places...
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher. According...
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    Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and whilst some Beeching closures did take place after the departure of Beeching in 1965, the St Andrews closure was not an...
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  • p. 377. ISBN 978-0-87140-410-7. Loft, Charles (2013). Last Trains; Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England. sable publishers. p. 75. ISBN 9781849547123...
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  • after they had been abolished on the rest of British Railways, and while Dr Beeching was closing down branch lines on the Mainland, Charles was reopening...
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    best cartridge, the "Ideal Cartridge Panel," under the direction of Dr. Beeching, started work in 1945, and by 1947 released their findings. They suggested...
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    officially named "Beeching Way". It has been nicknamed "Beeching Cut" as it runs through a cutting and was once one of the lines that Beeching cut. Much of...
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    capital Newport but as part of cutbacks made on the recommendation of Dr Beeching in the 1960s the line to Newport was cut in 1966. The trackbed south...
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  • Angela Myles Beeching". Archived from the original on 2012-02-02. Retrieved 2010-07-16. "Angela Myles Beeching". "Angela Myles Beeching - Polyphonic.org"...
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    especially during and after the Second World War, until the activities of Dr Beeching in the 1960s. An effect of the railway was to increase house building...
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  • High Court by section 41 of the Courts Act 1971 following the report by Dr. Beeching: The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster The Court...
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    whose occupant was killed. Cranleigh railway station was closed by Dr Beeching in 1965 after almost exactly a hundred years of operation. In 1975 the...
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  • Marie Reimondo, Tim McManus, Father Ray Mukada, and Dr. Gloria Nathan. "Prisoner #97B412: Tobias Beecher. Convicted July 5, 1997 - Driving While Intoxicated...
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    and a business campus, including QinetiQ. Richard, Baron Beeching of East Grinstead, "Dr Beeching", author of the report The Reshaping of British Railways...
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