Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (born 1913)

Richard Beeching

British physicist and engineer (1913–1985)

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report The Reshaping of British Railways,…