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= Richard Beeching
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Richard Beeching (1913-1985) was a British businessman and civil servant renowned for his role in restructuring the UK railway system during the early 1960s. He is best known for the Beeching Cuts, which were a series of drastic reductions in rail services and railway infrastructure aimed at making British Railways more financially viable.