biography
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Beeching, Richard, Baron
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| lived:
| (1913–85)
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| biography:
| Engineer and administrator, born in Maidstone, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Imperial College, London, became chairman of the British Railways Board (1963–5), and deputy chairman of ICI (1966–8). He is best known for the scheme devised and approved under his chairmanship (the Beeching Plan) for the substantial contraction of the rail network of the UK. He was created a life peer in 1965. |
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