On this day in 1987, 37 years ago, the last scheduled train passed over Farnley Viaduct, the tight curvature rendering it unsuitable for the overhead electrification equipment being installed between King's Cross and Leeds.
Immerse yourself in yesterday’s railway with this five-part documentary featuring material from 1958. Many of the locations shown are still operational but you’ll see many that have long since lost their rail service.
Part 1 of 5.
(1958)
Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.
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