Original sentence: The historical St Andrews Railway, which had connected St Andrews to the mainline via Leuchars Junction was closed on 6 January 1969 by Richard Marsh, Minister for Transport in the (Labour) government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a victim of the Beeching Cuts (Beeching had also been responsible for the earlier closure of the Anstruther & St Andrews Railway in 1965)
Edited sentence: The historical St Andrews Railway, which had connected St Andrews to the mainline via Leuchars Junction was closed on 6 January 1969 by Richard Marsh, Minister for Transport in the (Labour) government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and was not, as is commonly and erroneously supposed, a victim of the Beeching Cuts (although Beeching had been responsible for the earlier closure of the Anstruther & St Andrews Railway in 1965