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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 notable time was chairman of British Railways. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report The Reshaping of British Railways, commonly referred to as The ...
Richard Beeching ( Sheerness, 21 aprile 1913 – East Grinstead, 23 marzo 1985) è stato un fisico e ingegnere britannico, è stato presidente delle British Railways (BR). È diventato un nome familiare nella Gran Bretagna dei primi anni Sessanta perché, incaricato di presentare delle proposte per ridurre il deficit delle BR, con la sua ...
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.
27 mar 2013 · By Richard Westcott. BBC transport correspondent. Fifty years ago, the Beeching Report was published, spelling the end for thousands of stations and hundreds of branch lines. But now, in one...
25 mar 2013 · Dr Richard Beeching's report meant the end of hundreds of stations. By Martin Coldrick. BBC News, Yorkshire. The publication 50 years ago of an explosive report on the future of Britain's...
27 mar 2023 · Dr Richard Beeching was the man behind the plan, and became notorious for what many saw as detrimental and unnecessary cuts to a wonderful transport system, in the country which gave birth to...
7 giu 2013 · His name is a dirty word among railway enthusiasts, but was he actually ahead of his time? A night of programmes on BBC Parliament explores the legacy of Dr Richard Beeching. When Dr Beeching...
