# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-beeching-baron-beeching
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:47:09.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-beeching-baron-beeching"
name: "Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching"
slug: "richard-beeching-baron-beeching"
description: "Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who was chairman of British Railways. 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."
tagline: "British physicist and engineer (1913-1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Richard-Beeching-1st-Baron-Beeching.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-04-21"
deathDate: "1985-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.461421333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Beeching"
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    title: "ريتشارد بيتشينج بارون بيتشينج"
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    title: "রিচার্ড বিচিং"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beeching"
    title: "Richard Beeching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beeching"
    title: "Richard Beeching"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beeching"
    title: "Richard Beeching"
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    title: "ریچارد بچینگ، بارون بچینگ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump