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What has the beeching axe got to do with railways?

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The "Beeching Axe" known as "The Beeching Cuts refer to massive cuts and restructuring of the Railways in Great Britain outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963)-an early example of euphemistic management-speak and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965).

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