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Against the odds, the UK’s network of disused railway lines continues to make the news as the 21st Century throws up a host of transport, environmental and health challenges.This news page will provide links to relevant stories.
Plans for a new viaduct to reunite two halves of the Great Central heritage railway have been announced following the removal of bridges and an embankment in the 1970s.
A North East council boss has claimed that delays on changes to the timetable on the East Coast Main Line make the case for reopening the Leamside Line even stronger.
A rural road on the outskirts of Weymouth will be closed for almost a month so that National Highways can carry out works to a historic railway bridge.
Plans to extend and resurface part of the Cinder Track, occupying the disused railway between Scarborough and Whitby, have been delayed after councillors raised ‘serious concerns’ about accessibility.
A number of paths in Ross-shire, some of them occupying dismantled railways, have benefitted from an upgrade thanks to cash from the Highlands & Islands Transport Partnership Path Improvement Fund.
The 140-year-old railway bridge at Barcombe, which National Highways was going to infill with hundreds of tonnes of stone and concrete, will now be refurbished following the transfer of its ownership to the County Council.
Dunston Staiths, which used to carry multiple railway tracks, have reopened to coincide with the launch of the Tyne Derwent Way, a £1.5M redevelopment of a trail which connects Gateshead Quays with Gibside in the Derwent Valley.
Ambitious plans to create a 97-mile greenway for walkers and cyclists along the former Alnwick-Cornhill line have been hailed as a "gold-plated opportunity".
Buckinghamshire Council has secured funding to improve the trackbed of a disused railway so that it is suitable as a cross-town walking, wheeling and cycling link in Buckingham.
A campaign group has voiced concerns over the infilling of a Victorian railway bridge in Yorkshire, claiming National Highways has misrepresented its condition.
Bennerley Viaduct, which spans the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border, will be closed on the Notts side for about ten weeks whilst a new ramp can be installed.
Restoration work to a historic viaduct in Dudley is nearly finished, marking a significant milestone for Transport for West Midlands' Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension.
Stormont's Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir has called on Ards and North Down Council to intervene to save a picturesque disused railway bridge from potential demolition.
The Northern Devon Railway Development Alliance has been launched with the aim of securing a new rail link between Bideford and Barnstaple, and an upgrade of the North Devon line between Exeter and Barnstaple.
Pembrokeshire County Council has ordered the closure of a disused tunnel linking Coppet Hall car park and The Strand in Saundersfoot due to a rockfall above one of the entrances.
A project to convert the old ticket office at Norfolk's Middleton Towers station into a community asset won't go ahead unless volunteers come forward to help.
Work is underway on a new section of the Strawberry Line active travel route which will eventually stretch from Shepton Mallet to the Somerset coast, mostly along the trackbed of the former Cheddar Valley railway line.
Bradford Council is urging Government to share the findings of a business case review into reopening the Skipton to Colne railway as a boost to the Aire Valley.
It would be “inappropriate” for Bradford Council to buy the disused Wortley Curve at the current time, a Councillor has been told, as the site heads to auction.
Demolition work is set to begin on a historic former station building in Bedlington as part of a scheme to reopen a Northumberland railway to passengers.
Plans to remove a popular section of cycling and walking path in Edinburgh to make way for a new north-south tram route have been branded a “travesty” by a local councillor.
