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Wikipedia: The 'Beeching Axe' is an informal name for a program of cuts to British Railways, the nationalised railway system in the United Kingdom. The cuts, amounting to a third of the network, were proposed in The Reshaping of British Railways by Dr Richard Beeching as Chair of the British Railways Board, and took place during most of the 1960s and early 1970s. The cuts were controversial when proposed, and remain controversial today.
![[A picture of Wednesbury Town railway station in 2003.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Wednesbury_Town_railway_station_2003_s.jpg "A picture of Wednesbury Town railway station in 2003.")
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![[Prospect Tunnel has been disused and left to dereliction since the 1960s.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prospect_Tunnel_s.jpg "Prospect Tunnel has been disused and left to dereliction since the 1960s.")
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![[A picture of Islip Station and a F.G.W. Thames Turbo in the year 2010.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Islip_station_12_2010_s.jpg "A picture of Islip Station and a F.G.W. Thames Turbo in the year 2010.")
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![[A copy of The Reshaping of British Railways report, displayed beside the National Union of Railwaymen's response...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Beeching_axe_1_and_NUR_response_s.jpg "A copy of The Reshaping of British Railways report, displayed beside the National Union of Railwaymen's response...")
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