There was once a rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, but this was closed in the 1960s as part of cuts following the Beeching Report.

Passengers replaced freight as the main source of business, and one third of the network was closed by the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.

The Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company opened a dock at Port Talbot and the Llyfni Railway in 1897, followed by the Ogmore Valley Extension and the South Wales Mineral Junction Railway ( almost all these lines were closed as part of the Beeching Axe cuts in the mid 1960s, but some bridges and viaducts remain and many of these railway routes have re-emerged as recreational cycle tracks ).

But it was much quieter by the time of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.

Both stations closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching Axe.

This branch line was closed with the Beeching cuts, in the 1960s.

The town escaped the Beeching Axe of the 1960s and maintained its rail link with London, although many villages further up the river lost their railway stations.

Whilst it is generally believed that the line was closed under the " Beeching Axe " of the 1960s, the Severn Valley Line was, in fact, already scheduled for closure prior to the release of Beeching's 1962 report.

As a result of the Beeching Axe in the 1960s, British Railways closed the line at the end of 1962.

This large number is due in part to the closure of many minor lines in the 1960s under the Beeching Axe.

Since the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, road traffic levels have grown significantly and in some areas this has become close to gridlock.

Historically, there was also a route to Belfast via Stranraer over the WCML as far as Carlisle, and then connecting via the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway, however this route was closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching Axe reforms.

The current Bedworth railway station was opened in 1988 after the original station was closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching Axe.

During the electrification of the West Coast Main Line by British Railways, Birmingham Snow Hill handled most of the rail traffic through the city, but the subsequent Beeching closure programme in the 1960s took the view that Snow Hill station was unnecessary, and all services were switched to New Street and Moor Street.

He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report " The Reshaping of British Railways ", commonly referred to as " The Beeching Report ", which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network, popularly known as the Beeching Axe.

The village's North Thoresby railway station was on the railway line from Louth to Grimsby until the Beeching Axe in the 1960s, but was reopened in 2009 as part of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway heritage railway.

Declining passenger numbers and financial losses in the late 1950s and early 1960s prompted the closure of many branch and main lines, and small stations, under the Beeching Axe.

The town used to have several other stations but these have all closed since the publication of the Reshaping of British Railways ( the so called Beeching Axe ) report in the 1960s.

This closed with the Beeching cuts in the 1960s.

Rail underwent a temporary decline in the 1960s due to the Beeching cuts, which included the Alfreton station.

Alfreton's railway station, sited to the north-east of the town, was closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching Axe, but on 7 May 1973 a station was opened on the same site called Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway.

Cowes was once served by a rail link to and from the Island's capital Newport but as part of cutbacks made by Dr Beeching in the 1960s the line to Newport was cut in 1966.

The Beeching cuts of the 1960s saw the loss of passenger rail links in the Vale of Glamorgan and to the northern valleys.

Bridport railway station closed on 5 May 1975-one of the last closures directly associated with the " Beeching cuts " of the 1960s.

A branch line to Bury St Edmunds was closed in the 1960s under the Beeching Axe.

The line westwards towards King's Lynn was never reinstated after damage in the 1953 East Coast Floods, while the line to Norwich via Fakenham, Dereham and Wymondham was a victim of the " Beeching Axe " of the 1960s.

While open, the station was also served by former Great Central Main Line ( running on the same tracks as the Metropolitan Line as far as Quainton Road ) which was not itself closed down until the 1960s, under the Beeching Axe.

Unfortunately neither survived the Beeching Axe in the 1960s.

The town is served by Builth Road railway station on the Heart of Wales Line, which is located just over a mile to the north, having lost its more central ( Builth Wells ) railway station on the Mid-Wales Railway in the 1960s under the Beeching Axe.

Many British branch lines were closed as a result of the " Beeching Axe " in the 1960s, although some have been re-opened as heritage railways.

The railway is part of the otherwise-dismantled Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line, which was closed during the late 1960s as a result of the Beeching Axe and due mainly to the Great Western Railway being just a few miles to the south, which also connected Bristol and Bath.

Notable cases where railway stations have fallen into disuse include the Beeching Axe, a 1960s programme of mass closures of unprofitable railway lines by the British Government.

The fame of the Somerset & Dorset line reached its peak in the first years of the 1960s, just before final closure as part of the nationwide reduction of railway services, usually called the Beeching Axe.

They were used on a variety of lightly used lines, many of which were closed during the Beeching Axe in the 1960s.

Statistics from Portuguese administration in the 1960s stated that the racial composition of the inhabitants was 78 % of mestiços, 21 % of “ Africans ” ( i. e. blacks ) and 1 % of “ Europeans ” ( i. e. whites ).

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

He stated in an early 1960s interview with the Mainichi Newspaper, " But my movie company has produced a very interesting script that combined King Kong and Godzilla, so I couldn't help working on this instead of my other fantasy films.

In another story from 2002, the Star Tribune ( Minneapolis, MN ) stated that " ... Love is one of the overlooked bands of the 1960s.

By the 1960s, loyal societies in Canada recognized the Queen's cousin, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, as a " Canadian princess "; but, it was not until October 2002 when the term Canadian Royal Family was first used publicly and officially by one of its members: in a speech to the Nunavut legislature at its opening, Queen Elizabeth II stated: " I am proud to be the first member of the Canadian Royal Family to be greeted in Canada's newest territory.

Writing in 1987, the archaeologist Christopher Chippindale of Cambridge University spoke on the view of processualism at that time, putting it in the context of the 1960s, when he stated that:

AllMusic has described him as " the most influential percussionist of the 1960s " and stated that " virtually every drummer of every heavy metal band that has followed since that time has sought to emulate some aspect of Baker's playing.

The limiting factor is stated to be the overhead catenary support system which was constructed prior to 1935 and lacks the constant-tension features of the new catenary east of New Haven, although in the late 1960s the Pennsylvania Railroad did run Metroliner test trains as fast as and briefly intended to run the Metroliner service at speeds reaching.

Many years later, in the early 1960s, upon finding the birth certificate that stated his name was " Faye Robert Coffman ", Gilmore thought that he had been illegitimate or someone else's son, felt that it was the reason he and his father did not ever get along, and he was very upset and walked out on his mother, Bessie, when she tried to explain to him.

There is some evidence that Fard lived at least until the 1960s ; his alleged lover stated that he had returned to New Zealand.

By the early 1960s the Ministry of Defence thought the Pugwash Conferences were “ now a very respectable organization ” and the Foreign Office stated that it had " official blessing " and that any breakthrough may well originate at such gatherings.

Although Conroy drew on his experiences as a cadet at The Citadel, as well as stories from similar military schools during the 1960s to create the setting for the story, he has explicitly stated that the novel's plot and principal characters are a product of his imagination.

Weller's stated influences range widely, including The Beatles, Dr Feelgood, The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces and 1960s and 1970s soul music.

James Borg states that human communication consists of 93 percent body language and paralinguistic cues, while only 7 % of communication consists of words themselves ; however, Albert Mehrabian, the researcher whose 1960s work is the source of these statistics, has stated that this is a misunderstanding of the findings ( see Misinterpretation of Mehrabian's rule ).

" Grosch himself has stated that the law was more useful in the 1960s and 1970s than it is today.

He stated that in the 1960s, a " well-orchestrated " conspiracy began and led to recent successes in the gay rights movement.

He further stated the Miracles were " the heartbeat of Motown in the 1960s, one of the best vocal groups ever formed and owners of some of the greatest records rock has ever produced.

Since the reunification of Germany and the opening of Stasi files, in 2012 Lutz Rathenow, the State Commissioner for the Stasi Archives of Saxony, has stated that Beate Klarsfeld cooperated with the Stasi of East Germany in the 1960s.

" In its report, NIST stated that the technical ability to perform a rigorous simulation of aircraft impact and ensuing fires is a recent development, and that the technical capability for such analysis would have been quite limited in the 1960s.

Further, the press release stated that set would range " from the early 1960s all the way up to the mid 1970s ", indicating that ABC episodes would be included.

It is often said that human communication consists of 93 % body language and paralinguistic cues, while only 7 % of communication consists of words themselves-however, Albert Mehrabian, the researcher whose 1960s work is the source of these statistics, has stated that this is a misunderstanding of the findings ( see Misinterpretation of Mehrabian's rule ).

In the 1960s, the Fellowship began distributing to involved members of Congress notes that stated that “ the group, as such, never takes any formal action, but individuals who participate in the group through their initiative have made possible the activities mentioned .”

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Nisqually pursued their fishing rights along the river, which were stated in the Treaty of Medicine Creek but had been ignored.

Ikuhara stated that he had always admired Seazer, who had enjoyed popularity in Japan's student movement during the 1960s, and felt that Seazer's work, with its themes of revolution and changing the world, was perfectly suited to Utena.