Richard Beeching, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Beeching

Chairman of British Railways, physicist and engineer

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1913

Place of Birth: Maidstone, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1985

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways.
He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report The Reshaping of British Railways, commonly referred to as "The Beeching Report", which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network, popularly known as "the Beeching Axe". As a result of the report, just over 4,000 route miles were removed from the system on cost and efficiency grounds, leaving Britain with 13,721 miles (22,082 km) of railway lines in 1966.
A further 2,000 miles (3,200 km) were lost by the end of the 1960s.