Beeching Axe

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Introduction
The Beeching Axe, or Beeching cuts, was a plan to increase the currency and serving efficiencies in great Britain national railway network. Two articles written by Richard Beeching (Baron Beeching), The reshaping of British Railways (published in 1963) and The development of Major railway trunk routes (published in 2 years later in 1965). The articles outlined many station and many kilometers of tracks being bulldozed and abandoned.

Railway structure oofer
The two reports published in two years time had discussed and outlined the plan to destroy or abandon over 2,363 stations, no matter major or not major, least used or not, and how useful it was, along with over 8,000 km of tracks (5,000 miles), which equals to around 55% of stations and 30% of the stations of Great britain of that time.

Protest activity
Protest carried out along the beeched tracks and stations for saving them, or protest towards those protesters that protests(?) towards beeching axe, although most of them had overcomed portesters, leading to poor cottage women having to walk over 800 yards in order to go to the town, with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport and reducing the rail subsidies necessary to keep the network running. The second report identified a small number of major routes for significant investment. The 1963 report also recommended some less well-publicised changes, including a switch to containerisation for rail freight.^

Remainder
A few of these routes have since reopened; some short sections have been preserved as heritage railways, while others have been incorporated into the National Cycle Network or used for road schemes; others now are lost to construction, have reverted to farmland, or remain derelict.

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a copy of beeching axe report.