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The Beeching cuts were a reduction of route network and restructuring of British Rail in the 1960s.

Since the mid-1990s there has significant growth in passengers numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport. Some closed stations have reopened, and rail passenger services been restored on a few lines where they had been removed.

Some former British Railways lines have become heritage railways.

London

• Snow Hill tunnel, south of Farringdon station, was reopened for passengers in 1988 as part of Thameslink, providing a link between the Midland Main Line and the former Southern Railway via London Blackfriars station.

South East

• Chiltern Main Line was redoubled in two stages between 1998 and 2002 between Princes Risborough and Aynho Junction
• Chandler's Ford in Hampshire opened its new railway station in 2003, on the Romsey to Eastleigh link that had closed to passengers in 1969.
• Part of the London to Aylesbury Line was extended north along the former Great Central Main Line to a new station called Aylesbury Vale Parkway, which opened in December 2008. As part of the East West Rail project, passenger services are to be restored to the section of line from Aylesbury Vale Parkway to as far Claydon LNE Junction, providing direct services from Aylesbury to Milton Keynes and Bedford.

South West

• The passenger service on the Portishead Railway stopped in 1964; plans are to reopen as far as Portishead, possibly by 2019. Freight services ceased in 1981 and partly reopened in 2002 so was unrelated to Beeching.
• Stations reopened include Yate, Cam and Dursley, Ashchurch, Pinhoe, Feniton and Templecombe
• The service between Swindon and Trowbridge stopped in 1966 but two passenger trains each way were reinstated in 1985 with the reopening of Melksham station. The train service has increased with passenger numbers rising rapidly.

East Midlands

• The Robin Hood Line in Nottinghamshire, between Nottingham and Worksop via Mansfield, reopened in the early 1990s. Previously Mansfield had been the largest town in Britain without a rail link.
• Lincoln to Peterborough line. The section between Peterborough and Spalding closed to passengers on 5 October 1970 and reopened on 7 June 1971.
• North of Sleaford, Ruskington station reopened on 5 May 1975 and Metheringham Station reopened on 6 October 1975.
• The Kettering to Melton Mowbray Line via Corby and Oakham closed to passengers on 18 April 1966. A line was reopened in 1987 with a shuttle service between Kettering and Corby, but the service was unreliable and lost funding support from the local council, leading to its closure in 1990. The line was then reopened on 23 February 2009, with a direct train to London that terminates at Corby, with a limited number of trains continuing on towards Oakham and Melton Mowbray.
• Alfreton, Langley Mill and Ilkeston stations on the Erewash Valley Line have since been reopened.

West Midlands

• Birmingham Snow Hill station, after closing in 1972, was rebuilt and reopened in 1987 along with Snow Hill tunnel underneath Birmingham city centre to {{stnlnk|Birmingham Moor Street}}. The line towards Kidderminster and Worcester was reopened to Snow Hill in 1995.
• The line from Snow Hill to Wolverhampton reopened as the Midland Metro tram system. Despite the successful and potential reopening of many rail routes as light-rail and metro lines, the concept is still under threat due to the varying popularity of these schemes with successive governments.
• The line from Coventry to Nuneaton reopened to passengers in 1988.
• The Walsall–Hednesford line reopened to passengers in 1989, and was extended to Rugeley in 1997. Passenger services were terminated between {{Stnlnk|Walsall}} and {{Stnlnk|Wolverhampton}} in 2008 on cost and efficiency grounds. Some commentators believe an intermediate station at Willenhall should have been included with the original reopening.
• The South Staffordshire Line between Stourbridge and Walsall is set to reopen as a part of the Midland Metro expansion scheme. The line will be shared between trams and freight trains.
• The Cotswold Line has been redoubled in places and Honeybourne station reopened.
• A new station was opened in Kenilworth on 30 April 2018.

North West

• The route out of Manchester Central over the Cheshire Lines Committee's Manchester South District Line has been reopened by Metrolink. The line opened to St Werburgh's Road (via Chorlton) in July 2011 and was extended as far as East Didsbury in May 2013.

South Wales

• 32 new stations, such as Llanharan, and four lines reopened within 20 miles (32 km) of each other: Abercynon–Aberdare, Barry–Bridgend via {{Stnlnk|Llantwit Major}}, Bridgend–Maesteg and the Ebbw Valley Railway via Newbridge.

Scotland

• Glasgow Central Railway between {{Stnlnk|Rutherglen}} and {{Stnlnk|Stobcross}} was reopened in November 1979, establishing the Argyle Line connecting the Hamilton Circle to the North Clyde Line.
• Intermediate stations at {{Stnlnk|Dalmarnock}}, {{Stnlnk|Bridgeton}}, Glasgow Central Low Level and {{Stnlnk|Anderston}} were reopened. A new station opened at {{Stnlnk|Argyle Street}}.
• The Argyle Line was extended in December 2005 when a four-mile (6.4 km) section of the Mid Lanark Lines of the Caledonian Railway reopened, serving {{Stnlnk|Chatelherault}}, {{Stnlnk|Merryton}} and {{Stnlnk|Larkhall}}.^[1]
• The Glasgow and South Western Railway's Paisley Canal line was closed to passengers in 1983. The majority of the route reopened in 1990.
• The Caledonian Railway's Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway closed to passengers in 1966. The majority of the route was reopened (with a revised terminus station at Whifflet) in 1993.
• Stirling to Alloa reopened on 19 May 2008, providing a passenger service to Alloa on the route of the former Stirling-Dunfermline main line after a 40-year gap. This line had not been marked for closure by Beeching. The restored line also provides for freight onwards to Kincardine, and ultimately to Dunfermline by the slower, single track coastal route. Coal traffic has subsequently ceased with the closure of Longannet Power station.
• {{Stnlnk|Laurencekirk}} on the mainline between Arbroath and Aberdeen was shut in 1967 but 42 years later in May 2009 it was reopened. This was the 77th new or reopened station in Scotland since 1970. Others include {{Stnlnk|Gretna Green}}, {{Stnlnk|Dyce}} and {{Stnlnk|New Cumnock}} all of which had been closed in the mid-1960s.
• The Edinburgh to Bathgate route opened in 1985, as single track. The line was doubled, electrified and extended beyond Bathgate to Airdrie in 2010, creating a fourth route between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
• A 35-mile (56 km) stretch of the former Waverley Route between Edinburgh and {{Stnlnk|Tweedbank}} via Galashiels reopened on 6 September 2015. The closure of the line in 1969 had left the Scottish Borders without any rail links.
• Beauly (2006) and Conon Bridge (2015) were reopened on the Far North Line between Inverness and Dingwall.

Heritage railways

Current proposals

In June 2009, the Association of Train Operating Companies called for 14 lines with about 40 stations to be reopened.^[2]

The lines include, either wholly or in part:

• Cranleigh Line
• Bordon Light Railway
• Fawley Branch
• Torbay and Brixham Railway
• Sutton Park Line
• Walsall – Brownhills Line
• Aldridge – Brownhills West Line
• Wisbech – March Line
• Fleetwood Branch Line
• East Lancashire Railway
• Skelmersdale Branch
• Blyth and Newbiggin Branch Line,^[2]
• Durham – Washington – Pelaw line.
• Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line

See also

• History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

References

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