On this day 56 years ago, closure brought traffic to an end on the tranquil Great North of Scotland line over the 588-tonne Spey Viaduct.
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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 have been unveiled for two new cycle links - one using a disused railway trackbed - which council chiefs hope will encourage people in a West Craven town to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
Pressure is mounting on Lancashire County Council to accept responsibility for the disused railway line between Colne and Skipton so it can be reopened.
350 passengers were aboard the first train to travel the former line between Leekbrook and Cauldon which is reopening 75 years after its axe first fell.
The Hayling Billy Line, which opened in 1867 to connect Havant to Hayling Island, will be given the special designation of a nature reserve by Hampshire County Council.
Rail chiefs have applied for planning permission to safeguard the 170-year-old former Twerton Station, designed by Brunel, which has been targeted by squatters.
Work has started on a key section of the Exe Estuary Trail, along an old railway, to provide the "missing link" on the route between Exeter and Exmouth.
Supporters of a planned £750,000 cycle path using the disused railway through the Wye Valley have set up a group to highlight the benefits of the proposed scheme.
Network Rail has agreed to pay for a final assessment of the plan to reinstate the Todmorden Curve, allowing trains from Burnley to head into Manchester.
BAM Nuttall, contractor for a guided busway along a disused railway line, can expect a £45 million bill from Cambridgeshire County Council that could take years to collect through the High Court.
A new walking and cycling path along a former railway trackbed could be created between Chepstow and Tintern if a planning application gets the go ahead.
What is thought to be Britain's only surviving wooden railway footbridge still in its original locationwill be the subject of a special open day in the Borders this weekend.
Plans to extend the Llangollen railway to Corwen along a disused trackbed look set to disintegrate if action is not taken promptly and red tape cut through.
Campaigners have won the right to an appeal against the building of a £20 million rapid bus transit route in Hampshire, along a disused railway trackbed.
Farmers and landholders have successfully opposed plans for a 10-mile walking and cycling trail that would have passed through their land along an old railway trackbed.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
Disused tunnels that criss-cross the South Wales Valleys should be reopened to unite communities and unleash a new era of carbon-free travel, according to a green transport campaigner.
The worst winter in 30 years has delayed the reopening of the Spen Valley Greenway - a footpath laid on the trackbed of a disused railway - until later this year.
Work has finally begun on a £1.9 million scheme to create a new four-mile cycling and walking route through Combe Down and Devonshire tunnels to the south of Bath.
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.
Countryside campaigners have called for a feasibility study to be carried out into reopening the former Southern Railway route from Exeter to Plymouth.
Council officials are about to sign the paperwork which will allow work to start on the £1.9 million Two Tunnels path, involving a pair of disused tunnels to the south of Bath.
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.
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.
Walkers, cyclists and horseriders will be able to use a disused railway trackbed near the North York Moors national park after ramblers won a long-running legal battle.
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.
An abandoned railway tunnel near Corbridge, which opened in 1834 on the Newcastle to Carlisle line, could soon be infilled and sealed at a cost of £450,000.
The wheels are still in motion to create an off-road cycleway between Uley, Dursley and Cam - along a disused trackbed - but the plans could take several more years to complete.
