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	Beeching Axe
		The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British government's attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing little-used and unprofitable railway lines[?].
		In 1961 The Conservative government appointed Dr Richard Beeching (1913-1985) as the chairman of British Rail with a brief to cut the spiralling losses.
		Dr Beeching believed that the railway system should be run like a business not a public service, and that if parts of the railway system which didn't pay their way—like some rural branch lines—were closed then the remaining core of the system could be restored to profitability.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Beeching_axe.html (1256 words)

	Richard Beeching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beeching was born in Maidstone, Kent, the second of four brothers.
		A set of proposals for the future of the railways that came to be known as the "Beeching Plan" was adopted by the Government, resulting in the closure of a third of the rail network and the scrapping of a third of a million freight wagons, much as Stedeford had foreseen and fought against.
		Beeching resigned in 1965 after recommendations in one of his reports were rejected by the government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Beeching (1294 words)

	Dr Beeching
		Richard Beeching was appointed as Chairman of the newly formed British Railways Board in June 1961 by the Minister of Transport.
		In short Beeching was appointed by a government that doubted rail had any future except for a few trunk routes and commuter lines and told to prove it and ditch most of it.
		Beeching had no option but to work with the information he was given; it is pointless to blame him for decisions he had no option but to make on the basis of bad information - he could only do his best with the information he was given.
	www.rodge.force9.co.uk /faq/beeching.html (3922 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Back to Beeching
		Dick Beeching was born in Kent in April 1913, the second of four brothers whose parents made great sacrifices to send them to Maidstone Grammar School.
		Beeching's experienced team of engineers were, at first, doubtful about his approach to engineering problems.
		In November 1964, Beeching was asked by the Prime Minister Harold MacMillan to examine the problem of road and rail co-ordination of both passenger and freight transport.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/beeching_biography.shtml (956 words)

	AEGiS-BBC: Why tropical diseases pose a threat
		Dr Vanya Gant, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "I have come across patients who have nearly died who considered that going to Africa was the same as going to the south of France, only hotter.
		Dr Beeching said sleeping sickness had almost been conquered in Africa during the last century, but there had now been a resurgence in many countries.
		Dr Peter Chiodini, a consultant parasitologist at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, said: "With the bacterial diseases, such as malaria, we are facing an increase in antibiotic resistance."
	www.aegis.com /news/bbc/2002/BB020105.html (846 words)

	Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History \| Railway Readings
		The industrialist Dr Richard Beeching was appointed chairman of the British Transport Commission in 1961 and became chairman of the new British Railways Board upon its establishment in 1963.
		The size and depth of the operation which Dr. Beeching proposes to perform has startled and dismayed large sections of the community, both private and industrial, and by the weekend doubts were being expressed as to its feasibility.
		Beeching suggests that a coordinated transport policy is required and admits that profitability of individual forms of transport is not necessarily the best test of efficiency; nor are we convinced that the social factors in transport are as insignificant as has been suggested.
	www.york.ac.uk /inst/irs/irshome/features/readings/archive/beeching.htm (6809 words)

	Diet and Weight Loss > New Project To Help Improve The Diet of The World's Poor
		Dr John Beeching from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath will receive over £313,000 ($560,000) to focus on understanding and controlling the problem of the short shelf-life (post-harvest physiological deterioration) of the cassava root.
		Dr Beeching's laboratory will focus on the molecular basis and control of accelerated post-harvest deterioration in cassava roots.
		Earlier work by Dr Beeching has shown that oxidative stress in cassava roots within three hours of harvesting triggers a rapid deterioration in the quality of the vegetable and that antioxidant enzymes and molecules play a major role in controlling this stress response.
	www.emaxhealth.com /1/2638.html (1146 words)

	Thriving rural railways forgive Beeching at last \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Forty years after the notorious Beeching report signalled the end of the line for most of Britain's rural railways, the ones that got away are thriving.
		The flaw in Beeching's reforms, the civil servant's biographers now agree, was the failure of the then Conservative government to factor in the social dimension of rural railways.
		Although Beeching never had a train named after him, the usually off-limits cabs and footplates of famous engines such as "Mallard" are being opened on Saturday and Sunday in his honour, for visitors to try their hands at the controls.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,917099,00.html (683 words)

	- CRANLEIGH RAILWAY - The Line's History: Dr. Beeching & Closing the Line
		Beeching and the Closure of the Branch Line
		Dr. Beeching and the Closure of the Branchline
		In the Beeching Report of 1963 all the five stations on the line were listed for closure.
	www.cranleighrailway.info /history7_closure.htm (279 words)

	Beeching Axe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beeching believed the railway system should be run like a business and not a public service, and that if parts of the railway system did not pay their way—like some rural branch lines—they should be closed.
		When Beeching was Chairman of British Railway's he initiated a study of traffic flows on all the railway lines in the country.
		Beeching Axe was of the 80-mile-long (130 km) Waverley Route main line between Carlisle and Edinburgh, in 1969; plans have since been made to re-open a significant portion of this line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beeching_axe (2743 words)

	Tearing up the Tracks. Public transport in the UK asset stripped to make way for death, pollution, stress..... and ...
		Beeching was able to sell vast amounts of British "obsolete" track to them at a beneficial rate particulary with regard to junctions and crossovers that were very much in demand.
		Beeching continued his analytical work over a wider field, including AA guns and small arms, with striking results, some of which are only now, in the 1980s, being adopted; for example, the reduction by some 30% in calibre of standard small arms.
		Beeching impressed Stedeford and all those closely involved with his analytical examination of witnesses, time and again asking the crucial questions and gaining a mastery of the subject in an extraordinarily short time.
	www.bilderberg.org /railways.htm (21231 words)

tags --> John R Beeching- Department of Biology & Biochemistry</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> John R <b>Beeching</b>- Department of Biology and Biochemistry </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Much of this work is funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development and by the Grand Challenges in Global Health programme. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Cortés DF, Reilly K, Okogbenin E, <b>Beeching</b> JR, Iglesias C, Tohme J. (2002) Mapping genes implicated in post-harvest physiological deterioration in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz).</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bath.ac.uk /bio-sci/beech2.htm</font> (500 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Re: Dr Beeching</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In article <3695899c.3370816@news.bigpond.com>, consultancy@bigpond.com (greg h) writes: <snip> >There can be much criticism levelled at the methods <b>Beeching</b> employed >in his rationalisation processes (basically, they were purley >economically based - if the line wasn't making a profit, scrap it). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> No >consideration appeared to be given to the social implications of loss >of rail services to localities The <b>Beeching</b> plan did take into account social need. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This was a high speed electrified main line between Manchester and Sheffield which had been extensively improved only forty years before.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.railpage.org.au /ausrail/99jan/msg00380.html</font> (298 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/railways.htm">Tearing up the Tracks. Public transport in the UK asset stripped to make way for death, pollution, stress..... and ...</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Dr</b> <b>Beeching</b> came to be vilified in the popular press as a cold and analytical accountant - an industrialist with a brief to destroy the railways. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> To the Government, <b>Beeching</b> was the ideal appointee: an intellectual who could be relied upon to subject the railways to a rigorous statistical analysis, while ignoring the wider social aspects of the task. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Beeching</b> himself was later to state that contributory revenue from through traffic varied between five per cent and 75 per cent of gross income..</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk /railways.htm</font> (21231 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.irfca.org/articles/doing-Dr-Beeching.html">[IRFCA] Doing a Dr. Beeching on Indian Railways!</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Nearly 4 decades ago a <b>Dr</b>. <b>Beeching</b>, Chairman of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical giant <a href="/topics/Imperial-Chemical-Industries-PLC" title="Imperial Chemical Industries PLC" class=fl>ICI</a> (Imperial Chemical Industries), was tapped to head the then ailing British Rail with a clear mandate to get it firmly back on the rails. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> However inspite of having to face considerable flak from the electorate the political leadership stood by the plan, though in the process <b>Dr</b>. <b>Beeching</b> became the most unpopular man in the shires. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Perhaps taking a page from <b>Dr</b>. <b>Beeching's</b> plan, in 1969 Indian Railways too got around setting up a committee to take a close look at the branch lines, especially the narrow gauge sections most of which had been a legacy of the princely States and had been losing from the day they were commissioned.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.irfca.org /articles/doing-Dr-Beeching.html</font> (811 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docSummary.php?docID=13">The Railways Archive :: The Reshaping of British Railways - Part 1: Report</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The '<b>Beeching</b> Report' is one of the most notorious government reports of the 20th century. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The failure of the modernisation plan to stem BR's losses led the author, <b>Dr</b> <b>Beeching</b>, to propose wholesale route closures in an attempt to concentrate resources on the core routes. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Beeching</b> closures failed in their attempt to eliminate BR's losses, and led to the belated recognition that the railways serve a social role which should be financially acknowledged.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.railwaysarchive.co.uk /docSummary.php?docID=13</font> (391 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>New Page 1</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Minister of Transport appointed <b>Dr</b>. Richard <b>Beeching</b> as Chairman </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The report showed that only half the routes covered the cost of operating them, and that half the stations produced about 95% of all the revenue. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Dr</b>. <b>Beeching</b> did what he was told to do by the British Government.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk /beeching.htm</font> (374 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.exchangesupplies.org/conferences/2005_NCIDU/speakers/nicholas_beeching.html">Injecting and infections: clostridium, tetanus and botulism - Dr Nicholas Beeching</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Injecting and infections: clostridium, tetanus and botulism - <b>Dr</b> Nicholas <b>Beeching</b> </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Prevention of infections includes advice about safe, sterile injecting practices and immunization against selected infections such as tetanus and hepatitis A and B. Muscle popping should be discouraged. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He was a consultant physician in Saudi Arabia for 2 years before taking up his current posts in Liverpool in 1987.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.exchangesupplies.org /conferences/2005_NCIDU/speakers/nicholas_beeching.html</font> (459 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://jove.prohosting.com/~ark84/resources/site.htm">Site Information</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> For various reasons these lines were closed, mostly in the <a href="/topics/1960s" title="1960s" class=fl>1960's</a> during the period known as the <b>"Beeching"</b> era (so named for <b>Dr</b> <b>Beeching</b>, then chairman of the <a href="/topics/British-Railways" title="British Railways" class=fl>British Railway</a> Board). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> However, this is not really an wholly true answer - for one thing <b>Beeching</b> only became chairman of the <a href="/topics/British-Railways" title="British Railways" class=fl>British Railways</a> Board in <a href="/topics/1961" title="1961" class=fl>1961</a>, by which point a large number of railway lines across the country (including the Alford and Macduff lines) had already been closed. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Beeching</b> merely signed the "death warrents" for a system that was doomed anyway.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>jove.prohosting.com /~ark84/resources/site.htm</font> (1602 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/staff_beeching_k.shtml">HLSS - School of Language, Linguistics and Area Studies: Staff Profile - Dr Kate Beeching</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Dr</b> Kate <b>Beeching</b> – Principal Lecturer in French and Linguistics. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> My research interests are in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, with a specialist focus on the nature and description of spontaneous spoken French. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> I am a keen supporter of the concept of e-learning as a means of widening participation.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.uwe.ac.uk /hlss/llas/staff_beeching_k.shtml</font> (500 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Government told to `put Beeching cuts into reverse`</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The report (<b>Beeching</b> in Reverse: The case for a programme of line and station reopenings) finds that putting the tracks back could boost regeneration and act as a powerful symbol for rail revival. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Stewart Francis, Chairman of the Rail Passengers Council, said: “Whilst no one is suggesting that all the lines and stations closed by <b>Dr</b> <b>Beeching</b> should be restored, there is a strong case for accelerating a targeted programme of selected schemes. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The report is followed up by a conference in Nottingham on 27 September 2001 with a ‘trial of <b>Dr</b> <b>Beeching’</b> to be held the night before on the evening of 26 September.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.transport2000.org.uk /news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=6</font> (824 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/www.bilderberg.org/railways.htm">Tearing up the Tracks. Public transport in the UK pulled to pieces to make way for death, pollution, stress..... and ...</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The first place to look is the reports that led to <b>Dr</b>. <b>Beechings</b> railway destruction plan, known at the time as the 'Re-shaping Plan'. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The way forward has to be the re-opening of most of the railways closed under <b>Beeching</b>, along with the reinstatement of the locally based distribution network. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> I believe the major mistake of the <b>Beeching</b> plan was that it allowed removal of the infrastructure.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/www.bilderberg.org/railways.htm</font> (4861 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/index.shtml">Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: Stations: index.shtml</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>“Beeching</b> Axe” as it became known proposed a massive closure programme. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The report was rejected by the government and <b>Dr</b>. <b>Beeching</b> resigned in <a href="/topics/1965" title="1965" class=fl>1965</a>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Although <b>Beeching</b> was gone, the closure programme that he started under the Conservatives in the early <a href="/topics/1960s" title="1960s" class=fl>1960’s</a> continued unabated under Labour until it was brought to a halt in the early 1970’s; but by that time the damage had been done.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/stations/index.shtml</font> (627 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/march/27/newsid_4339000/4339761.stm">BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1963: The end of the line</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The tragedy of the <b>Beeching</b> Cuts is not the cuts themselves but the loss of 9,000 miles of superbly engineered right of way. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As somene who has had to grow up in the new age of motorways and by-passes for by-passes, I can only say that the <b>Beeching</b> Act and the subsequent expansion of the road network at the expense of a great rail network was the greatest mistake that government made in the <a href="/topics/1960s" title="1960s" class=fl>1960s</a>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> However, as I got older and had to tolerate increasingly congested roads I couldn't help but notice that, all too often, the road that we were dawdling along followed a line of trees and thorn bushes marking the course of a former rail link which could have greatly reduced or even solved the congestion problem.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/march/27/newsid_4339000/4339761.stm</font> (1493 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/o/ohdoctorbeeching_1299002394.shtml">BBC - Comedy Guide - Oh, Doctor Beeching!</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Britain was once traversed by a network of railway lines that reached even the smallest towns. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The arrival of the efficient and officious new stationmaster Cecil Parkin causes waves among the staff, however - especially May, who had a passionate affair with him before her marriage to Jack; according to the calendar, it transpires that Cecil is Gloria's real father. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> But the complex relationships between the protagonists fade into the background when <b>Beeching's</b> report is published and Hatley is threatened with closure.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/o/ohdoctorbeeching_1299002394.shtml</font> (494 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896027,00.html">TIME.com: Dr. Beeching's Bitter Pill -- Apr. 6, 1962 -- Page 1</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Richard <b>Beeching</b>, the blunt, brusque businessman hired—for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant—to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Beeching's</b> bitterest pill was not the price increase, though it marked a 50% rise in ticket prices in 30 months (to 5.25¢ a mile for first class, v. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,896027,00.html</font> (717 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/beechingA.html">NEC Faculty</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Angela Myles <b>Beeching</b> is director of the NEC Career Services Center, an internationally recognized comprehensive career resource office for students and alumni. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Beeching</b> has been an invited speaker for the National Association of Schools of Music, Chamber Music America, Eastman School of Music, the Pebody Institute, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the University of Texas, Austin, among others. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Beeching's</b> articles have appeared in Chamber Music magazine, Inside Arts, the National Business Employment Weekly, and Managing Your Career, published by the Dow Jones.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.newenglandconservatory.edu /faculty/beechingA.html</font> (187 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.pattayamail.com/415/letters.htm">Pattaya Mail Letters</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As somewhat of an addict to John D Blyth’s ‘Down the Iron Road’ may I point out that the Chairman of <a href="/topics/British-Railways" title="British Railways" class=fl>British Railways</a> who axed the rail networks in Britain in the 60’s was <b>Dr</b>. Richard <b>Beeching</b>, not Breeching who was the subject of last week’s article. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The axe-wielding former <a href="/topics/Imperial-Chemical-Industries-PLC" title="Imperial Chemical Industries PLC" class=fl>ICI</a> boss was, as John must know, <b>Dr</b>. 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