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beech
see fagus.


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Richard Beeching was a senior ICI man brought in by the government of the day in the early 1960s with a brief to stem the railways' losses.
Until the mid-1960s it had regular rail passenger services to Sunderland, Teesside and Newcastle and the presence of the railway had been a major factor in selecting Washington as a "new town" in 1964, but the passenger service was a victim of the Beeching Axe less than two years later.
The experts of the day were slow not to realise that as the motor vehicle, private and commercial, became more popular as a result of the Beeching Plan, it was inevitable that without comprehensive planning, the time would come when we would reach saturation point on our roads.
 
 
 
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