Get Dr Beeching Railway Map Pics. Dr richard beeching is much maligned as the chairman of the british railways board who closed thousands of miles of railway and stations in the 1960s. Back in the sixties, as dr beeching was wielding his axe over the british rail network, the comedy duo flanders and swann wrote a wistful little song called slow train.
Dr richard beeching sparked uproar in the 1960s when he closed 4,500 miles of railway line and 2,128 stations to save the cuts came amid a rapid growth in car ownership and the opening of the uk's first motorways.
The brb owned a large amount of archive material, including papers, maps, films and photographs. Includes waggonways, tramways, stations, metro and narrow gauge railmaponline is a free website that aims to provide an interactive map of all historic railways for the uk and us. Rail lines which were closed during the beeching cuts in the 1960s could be reopened and some big franchises split up under government plans. Always on the look out for making savings.
