YOUR correspondent Jim Finnie’s letter in Friday’s issue is the second example I’ve spotted in a few days of Dr Beeching and the Tories ...

Railfuture Scotland is a longstanding and influential transport think tank which has been campaigning for better services and an expanded ...

The first thing that the Scottish Government did as steward of the railway was to cut the services by a third ... it was no accident that Beeching’s brief was to ‘make the railways pay ...

The Camp Hill Line project is underway to reopen the line in Birmingham, UK, 80 years after it was closed as part of the ...

The tunnel, which opened in 1890, was closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching cuts, which led to widespread railway closures across the UK. Both entrances were filled by 1981, and the site has ...

A minister has said the government can not currently afford to fund a rail link connecting Carterton, Witney and Eynsham to Oxford. A train service used to operate between Oxford and Witney on the ...

Photo: Rightmove/Cooper Green Pooks Baschurch railway station opened the same year that the cottage was built, but was closed in the 1960s as a casualty of the Beeching cuts. The cottage would ...

Its closure was part of the widespread cuts under the Beeching Axe. Location: Terminated in Middleton-in-Teesdale, serving as an endpoint for passengers and goods. Significance: Known for ...

It marked the first time passengers have travelled on the line since it was cut as part of the notorious Beeching Cuts in the 1960s. Speaking at a meeting of the North East Combined Authority this ...

Reopening the station which shut for passengers in 1965 under the Beeching cuts is one of the measures recommended for development by The Western Gateway - a partnership made up of business, leaders ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday ceasing U.S. engagement with the U.N. Human Rights Council and banning funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza. The order came as the ...

The move, announced Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts its funding for “indirect” costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements ...