Bromyard Town Council has welcomed plans to convert the disused railway from Worcester across the Welsh border into a cycle route.

Ambitious plans to re-establish a railway line between Alnwick and Alnmouth are being recommended for approval, 42 years after the last train blew its whistle.

Hampshire councillors took just ten minutes to unanimously reject an application to have land along the disused Fareham to Gosport railway line designated as a village green.

An ambitious plan to put Bromyard at the centre of a cycle trail using disused railways to cut across north Herefordshire has received the backing of the town council.

47 years after it closed, Earlsheaton Station and the tunnel leading to it could become part of a new rambling route from Dewsbury to Ossett.

Delivery of the Borders Railway has moved a step closer as Transport Scotland announced its intention to invite three organisations to tender for the contract.

An appeal against a decision to allow a rapid bus route to be built on a disused railway line in Hampshire has been thrown out by the Court of Appeal.

Fledborough Viaduct, spanning the River Trent, has opened for walkers and cyclists, forming part of a route from Clumber Park to Lincoln.

A project to restore Combe Down and Devonshire tunnels for use by cyclists has been praised by a London-based think tank.

Plans to redevelop Manchester Mayfield Station could include office space for more than 5,000 civil servants - a project being described as 'Whitehall of the North'.

Cyclepaths, footpaths and an enlarged beach feature in new plans for Folkestone harbour, with the railway viaduct reopened as a ‘green walkway’.

A heritage group, campaigning to turn Haigh Viaduct into a footpath, has had its hopes dashed by Wigan Council on cost grounds.

The historic Eden (Waverley) Viaduct in Carlisle is a step closer to reopening after city councillors promised to push ahead with discussions to buy it from BRB(R).

Campaigners calling for Waverley Viaduct to be reopened to the public will address the council next week, keen to see it made safe for pedestrians and cyclists.

Bats are to be given a new home in a redundant railway tunnel on a cycle track in Caernarfon.

A disused Cumbrian trackbed is to be given a new lease of life as a wheelchair-friendly footpath.

Work on a cycle path linking Midsomer Norton and Radstock will begin this summer after an agreement was signed by Sustrans and Bath & North East Somerset Council.

The Liberal Democrats have vowed to reopen the Penrith-Keswick and Carlisle-Galashiels lines if the party comes to power.

The project to reopen the railway between Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders has officially started.

Whitstable residents are being asked for their views on bridge designs for the Crab & Winkle cycle path which will follow the disused Canterbury to Whitstable railway.

An anti-social behaviour hotspot under a disused Lincoln railway bridge could be transformed into the starting point for a new cycle track.

A proposal to build a cycle path along the old Malmesbury to Dauntsey railway line has been resurrected as funding for the project is now available.

Countryside campaigners have called for a feasibility study to be carried out into reopening the former Southern Railway route from Exeter to Plymouth.

A project that could see a cycle track built along the former Malmesbury to Dauntsey railway line has been revived.

MPs want to see the former railway between Paignton and Brixham reopened but have been told they haven't a 'hope in hell' of it happening.

Plans for a bridge forming part of a major footpath and bicycle track along a disused railway could get the go-ahead next week.

Whitstable's cyclists will soon be able to enjoy a traffic-free route down a disused trackbed after the project was granted planning permission by Kent County Council.

Dozens of villagers have attended a public exhibition on plans to transform a former railway station in Sutton Scotney.

The high costs involved in reopening the old Cranleigh-Guildford railway are likely to cause Waverley Borough Council not to support any further investigation work into its revival.

The lights in two old railway tunnels which will be at the heart of a new cycle path will have to be switched off for four hours each night to protect bats.