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.
A host of new suburban railway stations - some on a reopened line - could form part of a £200m Cardiff 'Crossrail', helping to solve the city's traffic gridlock.
The first phase of the long-awaited Greater Bristol Metro, including the introduction of passenger services on the Portishead line, is expected to open in 2017.
British Railways Board (Residuary) wants "temporary" security fences that keep people off Carlisle's Eden (Waverley) Viaduct to remain in place for another three years.
An interactive light and sound display is being installed along the length of the disused Combe Down Tunnel in Bath as part of the ongoing Greenway project.
Plans to extend a heritage railway into Carmarthen - attracting thousands of visitors and bringing huge economic benefits - have taken another step forward.
Network Rail will begin construction of the Borders Railway in early 2013 following the completion of a project transfer agreement between Network Rail and the Scottish Government.
Plans to reopen the rail link from Oxford to Bedford via Bicester have taken a step forward with the setting up of a Joint Delivery Board to oversee the project.
A proposal to turn a disused tunnel into an urban mushroom garden has won the Landscape Institute's international competition to design a High Line for London.
An old railway bridge that has fallen into disrepair will be given a new lease of life as part of a scheme to improve access between two Cardiff communities.
People forced out of their properties after a former railway tunnel collapsed have said they are no nearer knowing when their lives will return to normal.
Uckfield Town Council is supporting a bid by Network Rail to take ownership of the town's old station site and former goods yard, as the campaign to reopen the Uckfield-Lewes line steps up a gear.
A cycle and walking route could be created along a former railway line from Watlington to Junction 6 of the M40, more than 20 years after it was first suggested.
A campaign for a cycleway to link Sidmouth with Ottery St Mary and Feniton along a former railway line will shift up a gear next month with an exhibition.
Campaigners against the construction of a heritage railway through a stretch of Suffolk countryside have accused developers of corralling support for the proposal.
Two former railway bridges could bring an end to an eight-mile trek to the post office for people living in a hamlet that has been cut off from their nearest village for three years.
New plans for the development of a multi-use trail along an old railway trackbed would obstruct the extension of one of Cornwall's most popular tourist attractions, according to objectors.
Peak District National Park bosses are seeking the views of walkers and cyclists about how they should manage four trails that offer 34 miles of recreational routes on former railway lines.
A new cycle path along a disused railway trackbed could be created between Yatton and Clevedon in an attempt to encourage more people to use public transport.
A disused railway bridge over the River Plym has been given the once over by specialist contractors in the hopes of turning it into a footbridge and cycle path crossing.
Campaigners battling to expand the Isle of Wight's rail network by running trams over existing disused lines have welcomed a pilot 'tram-train' project in South Yorkshire.
The director of the company which owns the slowly-collapsing Monmouth Viaduct says there is no solution in sight for the structure and it may have to be destroyed.
A group has been set up to establish Darlington as the ultimate destination for railway tourism by 2025 - the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Ambitious plans to reopen Durham's Belmont Viaduct for walkers and cyclists have failed because the local council could not secure access across a plot of land.
Pylons could be coming down in one of the Peak District's most dramatic valleys if plans to bury them beneath the former Woodhead trackbed are approved.
More than 150 people have objected to Severn Trent's proposals to dig up a disused railway embankment near a water treatment plant and deposit excavated material at a nearby site.
An ambitious scheme to reopen the disused Alnmouth-Alnwick railway has reached an important milestone which could see trains operating later this year.
Cyclists have welcomed plans to open a disused railway tunnel to improve links between Wakefield and Dewsbury despite misgivings by some that it will attract anti-social behaviour.
The Mayor of Marlborough has asked for a link from the estates in the north of the town allowing access onto the old railway path that provides an off-road route to Swindon.
A new bridge in Weymouth will finally be lifted into place this weekend filling a 25-year-old gap in a disused railway alignment which now serves as a footpath.
A team of bomb disposal specialists is examining the disused Connaught Tunnel, part of the Crossrail route, for any ordnance which failed to detonate during World War II.
While many offices can boast great town centre locations and comfortable working environments, one workplace in Sutton Coldfield has its own disused railway line.
