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.
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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.
Funding has been secured for a £50,000 improvement of a path in Harrington (Cumbria) that will provide a safer route to school for children along a disused railway.
When work starts on the Croxley Rail Link to extend the Metropolitan underground line into Watford town centre it will be resurrecting a historic route dating back to the turn of the 20th Century.
Steel security fences to keep people off Carlisle's disused Eden Viaduct look set to stay in place for another year while plans are developed to reopen it as a footpath.
The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust is two steps closer to restoring the disused line to Blackmoor Gate thanks to a £36,000 grant and an acquisition of land.
Proposals to reinstate a disused railway line in Sutton Coldfield have been boosted after councillors rejected a plan to build houses on a station site.
Another section of the Caledonia Way, built on a former railway trackbed and destined to be one of the UK's finest long-distance cycle routes, has been opened.
A damaged pedestrian barrier has been repaired and remedial works carried out on sections of the combined foot and cycleway between Montrose and North Water Viaduct.
The company behind plans to reopen a mothballed railway line in the Staffordshire Moorlands has secured £1.65 million from the Government's Regional Growth Fund.
Plans to reopen Portishead's desperately needed rail link have received a major blow after a bid for £43 million of government funding was turned down.
A decision over a proposed extension to the Great Northern Trail, a £3 million path connecting Cullingworth with Queensbury, is due to be made public.
The stripping back of some redundant offices in York has revealed two intact gems - the oldest railway hotel in the world and one of the oldest stations, dating from 1840.
Reopening the disused railway between Llangefni to Amlwch as a heritage line could give Anglesey a much needed economic boost, according to tourism chiefs.
Work to reopen a bridge over a disused railway, which has forced residents to take a diversion of more than two miles, has got underway after a year's wait.
A pathway along a disused railway line, forming part of the Five Arches Project, has been officially launched as a link between Radstock and Midsomer Norton.
Cyclists are to protest against a proposed cycle path, campaigning instead for an alternative that uses the old Plymouth to Yealmpton railway trackbed.
Bristol's Bridge Valley Road will finally reopen on Sunday after an 18 month battle to stop the gorge above it from collapsing into a disused railway tunnel.
A council has rejected a scheme for two new homes in Wooburn Green saying it would have compromised future plans for a rail or cycle link between Bourne End and High Wycombe.
A £20 million rapid bus transit route in Hampshire, occupying a disused railway line, will be completed early next year, Hampshire County Council has confirmed.
The Wensleydale Railway is in discussions with Network Rail in a bid to obtain an unwanted bridge which would allow it to lay rails on the disused trackbed towards Aysgarth.
Plans to turn six-and-a-half miles of former railway trackbed between Leadburn and Eddleston into a multi-use path have been given the go-ahead by Scottish Borders Council.
Developers will be allowed to bulldoze a 130-year-old engine shed at the site of Denholme's former station despite heritage experts' fears it is the last remaining building of its type.
The RAF's Leuchars Conservation Group has joined forces with the local community council in a project to transform a disused railway siding into a nature trail.
Transport group Sustrans has vowed to fight on to secure a cycleway along the disused rail line between Chepstow and Tintern after planning delays led to a funding cut.
The Monsal Trail has been officially reopened to create an impressive route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders through four former Midland Railway tunnels.
Monmouthsire council's planning department has been accused of jeopardising plans for the Wye Valley Cycle Path after the project lost the Lottery funding awarded to it.
Four former railway tunnels, which have been closed since the demise of the Midland Railway's main line through the Peak District in 1968, have been reopened for walkers and cyclists.
An amateur group unearthing the remains of Norwich's two long-lost railway stations has found 150 feet of a platform wall at the former City Station site.
An old railway tunnel in North Somerset, which had to be closed in December when hazardous icicles formed inside, has reopened after £30,000 of repairs.
Two Mark 1 carriages are being moved hundreds of miles to The Heritage Centre in Bellingham - a former station on the Border Counties Railway - for use as an exhibition/learning space and tea room.
Campaigners are celebrating after a planning inspector approved a controversial £400,000 footpath and cycleway along a disused line between Bilton and Ripley.
A valuable link between footpaths in Read and the Ribble Valley - crossing Martholme Viaduct - could be reopened if enough evidence can be gained from local users.
Cyclists and walkers are being warned a new section of a popular Derbyshire footpath, along an old railway trackbed, is to be temporarily closed to allow it to be resurfaced.
Wiltshire Council has postponed work to infill two railway tunnels in Devizes after an outcry by residents who were concerned about access for lorries.
?Transport minister Norman Baker is inspecting work on a £2 million cycle path in Bath, using the trackbed of the former Somerset & Dorset railway as well as Combe Down and Devonshire tunnels.
Walkers and cyclists who use a popular Peak District trail have been warned that part of the route will be closed for about six weeks as part of a project to reopen four disused railway tunnels.
The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal against a controversial £20 million bus scheme which, according to a campaigner, will harm wildlife through a disused railway corridor.
Work is about to start on widening a path through the south of Bath so it can be part of a £1.9 million walking and cycling route along a former trackbed.
