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Beeching Cuts

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1965Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1965

Barbara Anne Castle Blackburn1965

Government / Labour Party Government

Presides over the closure of approximately 2050 miles of railways as she enacts her part of the Beeching cuts

Names involved

Barbara Anne Castle Blackburn

Provenance

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