Editing Beeching cuts (section)

== Reopenings ==
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[[File:Rail modal share.png|thumb|Rail modal share 1952–2015<ref name="tsgb0101">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/482670/tsgb0101.xls |title=Table TSGB0101: Passenger transport by mode, annual from 1952 |publisher=Department for Transport |format=ODS |date=15 December 2022 |access-date=25 June 2023}}</ref>]]
[[File:GBR rail passengers by year 1830-2023.png|thumb|Rail passengers in Great Britain 1829–2021]]

Since the Beeching cuts, road traffic levels have grown significantly. As well, since [[Privatisation of British Rail|privatisation]] in the mid-1990s, there have been record levels of passengers on the railways owing to a preference to living in smaller towns and rural areas, and in turn commuting longer distances{{sfn|DfT|2007|p=70}} (although [[Impact of the privatisation of British Rail|the cause of this is disputed]]). A few of the railway closures have been reversed. However, despite the considerable increase in railway journeys since the mid-1990s, rail transport's share of the total passenger transport market remains below that of the early 1960s, with road overwhelmingly the dominant mode: rail's market share was 13% in 1961, 6% in 1991 and 2001, and 10% in 2014.<ref name="tsgb0101" />

Some [[List of Beeching Cuts service reopenings|closed stations have reopened]], and passenger services have been restored on a few lines where they had been removed.

===Heritage railways===
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Some lines closed under the Beeching cuts have reopened as private heritage railways. Some examples are [[East Lancs Railway]], [[Great Central Railway (heritage railway)]], [[Mid Hants Railway]], [[North Yorkshire Moors Railway]], [[North Norfolk Railway]] and [[West Somerset Railway]].