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Ernest Marples: Paving the way for Boris, Blair & Cameron. As transport minister he oversaw major road construction (M1 motorway) & closure of the railway network (#Beeching.) He was MD of Marples Ridgway, road construction firm - was made a lord, & fled the country to dodge tax!
Great to see #Okehampton-#Exeter line featured on @BBCBreakfast today. Driving ahead with #Beeching Reversal, we're restoring all-year services to Dartmoor's line for the first time in 50 years- reconnecting communities, driving tourism and investment🚞✅ #RestoringYourRailway
Pleased to announce £20m to invest in new and restore disused train stations 🚉 – part of our £500m drive to re-open former routes & stations closed during #Beeching cuts. Funding will help restore Britain’s railways 🛤, connect towns and cities 🏘 and level up the country.
We’ve received 50 proposals to restore lines and stations across England and Wales, to improve… 🚆 Rail connections 📈 Local economies 💼 Access to jobs Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3eLoZSX #RestoringYourRailway #YourRailway #Beeching #LevellingUp
I've received a further 50 bids from MPs to reopen lines & stations axed by the #Beeching cuts which isolated thousands of communities from rail connections. The size of response demonstrates huge national passion for the #IdeasFund and #RestoringYourRailway
We’re continuing to help reconnect towns and communities across England and Wales following the infamous #Beeching cuts with our #RestoringYourRailway programme. 🚆 Find out more about our plans to reinstate stations and restore lines 👉 gov.uk/government/new… #Budget2021
This article on #Beeching and #Brexit is very insightful. “Beeching contributed to the UK’s geographical divide between thriving big #cities and struggling smaller #towns.” theguardian.com/business/2019/… #econdev
A novel idea, but considering most of the old lines are converted to cycle trails, bridleways, footpaths and indeed stations converted to museums, this will be a hard task. Plus, when it comes to infrstucture, especially rail, £500m won’t cut it. #railway #beeching
Today we've announced a £500m Beeching Reversal Fund to start re-opening rail lines axed under Harold Wilson's govt. Ultimately this saw 5,000 miles of rail & 2,363 stations closed. Our plan will help re-connect towns & villages to the rail network dailym.ai/2OeJ73L
DfT moves ahead with plans to reopen axed #Beeching #rail lines to 'undo the damage' of closures: buff.ly/3aJmHSN
58 years ago today the #Beeching cuts resulted in the closure of more than 2,300 stations. 🛤️ The #RestoringYourRailway Fund is investing £500 million to help kickstart new rail developments across the country as we help reconnect communities and #BuildBackBetter.
Tonight sees Mark Gaynor, our Head of Railway Strategy, making the case for new lines at the @allpartyrail inquiry into railway line re-openings. He’ll be joined by colleagues @CBTransport @DavidShirres @CECANational. #RestoringYourRailwayFund #Beeching
I can forgive Grant Shapps the #Beeching debacle if he delivers the full upgrade to the Transpennine rail line. railwaygazette.com/uk/589m-to-kic…
Congratulations to the @EastSuffolkLine 160 years old today. Running from #Lowestoft to #Ipswich the line survived the #Beeching Axe
@EastSuffolkLine 160th Birthday this Sat. Exhibitions @greateranglia #Halesworth station, #Beccles Museum-10 min walk from @BecStationCafe. @stationhouse01 Wickham Mkt history talks. Two guided walks. Steam returns to #Leiston Works. eastsuffolkline.com/news/326-160-y…
Reverse the Beeching Closures. Yes please! 72 new train stations and cost 1/12th the price of HS2. #HS2 #Beeching
If we cannot grasp the nettle of structural reform to create a National Library Service with plural capital funding relationships incl. health, education *and* #LocalGov the next 18 months will see an unstoppable series of cuts being announced to #libraries. #beeching
The tories are lying about reversing the Beeching cuts. This is just a PR wrapper around another policy which is underfunded. Even if they wanted to, it would be impossible to reverse because of the way that lines were torn up and built over . Thanks. #beeching #fuckthetories
Hear the case or pitfalls for rail line re-openings at the latest #APPRG session at 17:00, 24 November w/ @RailDeliveryGrp @CBTransport @DavidShirres @CECANational Email [email protected] for Zoom details #RestoringYourRailwayFund #Beeching
Final thought for today’s #MuseumsUnlocked Abandoned places: old railway line, closed during #Beeching cuts. Tunnel under #Horspath #Oxfordshire now occupied by bats. Old line mostly reclaimed by nature and the occasional graffitier (not me!)
'Reverse #beeching' rail plan could link #Kettering, #Corby, #Rutland, #Stamford and #Peterborough northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/transport… #Reversebeeching @WellandRail #hs2
This week's #TVTheme was from the 90's series #OhDoctorBeeching! It focused on staff of the fictional Hatley railway station, whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of a new station master on the same day that news breaks out over proposed plans by Dr Richard #Beeching
Beaching and the park…….. The Beeching legacy and the case for rail expansion. #Beeching #rail #transport. bettertransport.org.uk/blog/the-beech…
Beeching closed two Inter-City routes out of #London - significantly reducing route capacity to the north - which is exactly why we now need HS2 #Beeching closures were a disaster for the UK - forcing people to buy cars - costing my generation (and younger people) £billions
That looks great, I hope to see these clocks around the network. Its just a shame that many parts of the UK wont be getting them because they no longer have train services #Beeching
Vor 200 Jahren begann in #Großbritannien das #Eisenbahnzeitalter. Die Zukunft lag auf der Schiene – bis in den Sechzigerjahren ein gewisser Dr. #Beeching zur Axt griff. trib.al/184CtU1
I love it when two strands of my work come together. Back in February, I wrote about some of the loveliest British railway lines lost to the #Beeching axe. Yesterday, I made direct contact with one of these glorious ghosts in #Portsoy. #Aberdeenshire
Crumlin Viaduct opened on 01 Jun 1857. Designed by Thomas Kennard, tallest viaduct in #UK. Careful calculations and light construction made this least expensive bridge for its size at time. Demolished 1960s as part of #Beeching cuts tinyurl.com/56twednd - @ICELibrary
Good reason to reopen every #railway line that #Beeching closed to get #cars and #freight off the roads? @Heidi_Labour @GOVUK 🚄🛤️🚃
sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A new study from Bath University shows London's ULEZ has had major benefits for health and economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following implementation, an 18.5% reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37M
In our latest Railway-News magazine, Joey Stoate explores the topic of Reverse Beeching, discussing efforts to reopen former railway lines that were closed in the 1960s. Read more: ow.ly/29AC50Vy36L #UK #Rail #Beeching #Railways
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Reverse Beeching: A Potential Lifeline for a Historic Solution
Joey Stoate delves into the topic of Reverse Beeching, exploring efforts to reopen former railway lines that were closed in the 1960s.
We lived beside the railway station in Maud, Aberdeenshire. Used to love my Mum taking me out to wave to the train driver. Obviously that didn't continue for too long.... #Beeching
Maybe they ought to take a trip in a time warp machine & stop #Beeching
Delighted about the news of the proposed resurrection of the Varsity Line today, closed in it's previous incarnation in the 1960s. #varsityline #beeching #oxford #cambridge
The Refurbishment of Braintree Railway Station plaque was unveiled in 1998 by long-time #Braintree resident Thomas Bunn who, along with another local campaigner, Leslie Jordan, fought to save the Braintree-Witham line from closure when Dr #Beeching was swinging his cutbacks axe.
BR had too many surplus diesels from closed lines #Beeching The diesels required timetables re-writing, allowing for longer, slower journeys than the electrics offered Also, pass. disliked the compartment style of slam-door electric trains BR introduced on South Shields route
Following on from the closure of many railways, including the Nottingham Suburban Railway, here's Thackerays Lane railway bridge being demolished. (1973). Where did all that rubble go? Thanks to Brian Walker on FB. #beeching #oldrailways #woodthorpe #Nottingham #nottinghamhistory
Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object (The Hixon Rail Crash 1968) youtu.be/zSI0clZU1Lk?si… via @YouTube Makes me angry! #Beeching who knew nothing about his task for a start then total incompetence all actors here 😾😾😾☠️☠️☠️
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While I think that the GC should probably have remained open, and rightly #Marples is the greater villian in the piece (much more so that #Beeching), you can't compare the #GreatCentral to #HS2. If you liken it to the internet, the GC is an old copper line, HS2 would be fibre...
such a shame that many people do not have that choice #Beeching
💳 Brits turn to trains due to rising car costs 🚗 New research from TransPennine Express found that 49% of drivers are seriously worried about the increase in petrol, car insurance and car tax. 🚆The research also suggested that 28% will now switch from driving to travel by
The destruction continues, long after #Beeching left office... Just ask @theHREgroup
We’ve received 50 proposals to restore lines and stations across England and Wales, to improve… 🚆 Rail connections 📈 Local economies 💼 Access to jobs Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3eLoZSX #RestoringYourRailway #YourRailway #Beeching #LevellingUp
#OTD 1963 Dr Richard #Beeching issued a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. Read more about Britain's final #steam trains bit.ly/2GibYzb #railway
Reverse the Beeching Closures. Yes please! 72 new train stations and cost 1/12th the price of HS2. #HS2 #Beeching
DfT moves ahead with plans to reopen axed #Beeching #rail lines to 'undo the damage' of closures: buff.ly/3aJmHSN
Check out this month's Steam Railway for a feature written by yours truly. I'd been musing on this one for well over a decade, so it was good to finally research it and get the words on paper. #Beeching. (Image copyright: Western Times from the South Devon Railway.)
An insightful trip on the lines that survived the #Beeching Cuts in our #new book #SurvivorsofBeeching by #JohnJackson Covers many popular lines around the country including Settle to Carlisle. @railexpress #JohnBeeching #BritishRail #Railways #Trains bit.ly/2PhCtMJ
Richard #Beeching announced his intention to resign as Chairman of the British #Railways Board #OTD 1964 bit.ly/2CtimE8 #railway #trains
As part of reviving some railway lines closed under the 1960s #Beeching cuts, the campaign group @TrawsLinkCymru hopes #crowdfunding will fund £5,000 of campaigning costs to restore the West Wales rail corridor from #Carmarthen to #Bangor via #Aberystwyth justgiving.com/crowdfunding/t…
Nearly a million passengers on the @greateranglia #EastSuffolkLines in 2017 - not bad for a route #Beeching wanted to Axe and #BR ran down! greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/news-… #CommunityRail
If you told old #Beeching he was trending on Twitter he would look at you with the glassy stare of a man who had overindulged on brown windsor soup & cheap claret in the buffet car. Better simply to tell him that he was online. He would understand that. #Trains #railways.
It's the #Beeching effect at #Wimborne Model Town with the tracks being taken up for another year but you can see this year's railway video here bit.ly/2J3pN9v
The houses at the bottom of George St never had railings. Great shot of the iron footbridge to Platform 1 on #Saltaire Station. A popular pitch for #trainspotting & children waiting for steam engines, it was removed after the station was closed in 1965. #Beeching
Oh wow thanks for the information! Why do the houses not have iron railings outside? Do you know when these were added to the houses? (Sorry for yet another question!)
Picture of the Day from #Somerset 1967 – The end of Evercreech Junction on the former Somerset and Dorset railway, a year after the line closed – geograph.org.uk/photo/3403298 by Richard Green #railway #Beeching #history #potd
BEECHING - 50 Years of THE AXEMAN Magazine by Robin Jones. RRP £6.99 ISBN: 978-1-906167-68-4 @JeffHolland07 #OhDoctorBeeching #Railway #Beeching
A lot of complaints about Beeching are misplaced, but I expected better of the eminent LTC Rolt. Here he blames Beeching's 1963 report for the closure of a line in the 1950s when Beeching was Chairman of ICI. #beeching #railways #railwayhistory
#AmberleyBlog 'Survivors of Beeching' by #JohnJackson Looks at some of the branch lines that survived Dr Beeching's report and are flourishing in the twenty-first century. #Beeching #Railways #Trains bit.ly/2E6Ztrb
Reino Unido destinará 590 millones de euros a recuperar líneas de ferrocarril históricas vialibre.org/noticias.asp?n… @networkrail @transportgovuk #Beeching #Ferrocarril #Historia @mitmagob @Adif_es @Renfe
Monday’s #ImageOfTheDay. The first #Beeching Report, “The Reshaping of British Railways”, was published 60 years ago today, on 27 March 1963. #OnThisDay #otd
How Norman Thelwell found it in 1967. “When I was station master here I couldn’t get a damn thing to grow.” PUNCH cartoon. #railways #Beeching #rail #stations #transport #publictransport
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