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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.
The disused Rickett coal sidings, alongside the existing Queens Road Peckham to Peckham Rye railway, could be turned into a 1km linear park similar to one in New York.
Campaigners have expressed disappointment as Wales' new draft National Transport Plan defers proposed new railway stations including four on the disused Llantrisant-Beddau line.
Plans to spend £20,000 on a study into the extension of Nottingham's tram network to Kimberley look set to be approved. The proposed route would use the trackbed of a disused railway.
A light rail service taking train passengers on a disused railway between Dudley and Sandwell could be opened within five years under a £20 million flagship project.
The disused Bere Alston-Tavistock railway is a step closer to being reinstated after Devon County Council submitted an environmental study to the Planning Inspectorate.
Transport charity Sustrans has submitted an application to Rossendale Council's planning committee to reopen the disused Lumb Valley Viaduct as a cycle way.
A historic railway station that was to get a new lease of life at one of the world's leading museums is still in storage two years after it was dismantled.
A ceremony has been held at Shawfair Station to mark the official start of track laying on the £353 million Borders Railway, occupying the trackbed of the former Waverley line.
Campaigners hoping to reopen the Colne-Skipton railway are celebrating another step forward as Lancashire County Council chiefs meet with counterparts from North Yorkshire to discuss the idea.
Transport for London is planning to invite companies to bid to convert abandoned tube stations and tunnels into tourist attractions including hotels, shops and museums.
The £811,000 project to provide safer access to Hayle Station has seen an existing footpath replaced and the disused harbour branch transformed into a cycleway.
Success seems ever more likely for a hard-fought campaign to reopen the disused Eden Viaduct in Carlisle following positive noises from the Highways Agency.
Councillors have earmarked £50,000 towards the cost of consultants who will draw up a business case for a level crossing as part of the proposed reopening of the Portishead line.
An artwork symbolising one of Northamptonshire's disused railway lines - the former Nene Valley line between Northampton and Peterborough - is now towering over Stanwick Lakes.
The Borders Railway project has reached another major construction milestone after the first section of concrete slab track was laid in the disused Bowshank Tunnel.
Councillors are urging transport chiefs to rebuild Portishead's railway station on the original site in the centre of the town, claiming it remains the best option.
Calls for a cycle path to be built from Chepstow to Tintern along the disused railway are gathering pace with an online petition which has attracted over 1,800 signatories in two months.
The campaign to reinstate the Colchester-Cambridge line continues to gather pace with claims that authorities are "very much in favour" of part of the project.
Campaigners for better transport links in West Oxfordshire have walked part of the former Witney railway line to highlight their campaign for a study into its reopening.
A pressure group, campaigning for the restoration of disused, hyper-local rail lines to reduce traffic congestion, is holding a public meeting in Newbury.
Police have been accused of a breach of academic liberty after an Oxford academic was arrested for breaking into a disused railway tunnels for his PhD research.
The 14-mile Stafford-Newport cycle path, costing £2 million and occupying a disused railway trackbed, will be completed later this year, a decade after work on it started.
Sedgemoor District Council has approved a planning application to install a set of old buffers in Pier Street, where the town's former railway line used to end.
The future of Popham Street's imposing railway arches is uncertain after council officers decided to demolish the buildings that surround them in a bid to combat arson.
Investigations are due to be carried out on the three-mile section of disused line between Pill Junction and Portishead, exactly 50 years since the last passenger train ran along it.
A community heritage group with bold ambitions for the regeneration of Queensbury is to hold its first public meeting in a bid to start pushing its plans forward which include reopening a disused tunnel.
A Victorian railway tunnel, disused since 2006, is being brought back into use for Crossrail and work is taking place to deepen, strengthen and widen the structure.
A campaign to reopen the crumbling Queensbury Tunnel for cyclists has stepped up a gear and hopes that it gets a boost when Yorkshire goes cycle crazy for the Tour De France.
Sustrans has reopened a former railway bridge over the Bath-Bristol main line, allowing walkers and cyclists on the Two Tunnels path to cross the tracks in safety.
Europe's longest underground cycleway could be built in West Yorkshire if campaigners succeed in their aim to get an abandoned railway tunnel converted into a cycle path.
Plans are on track for steam trains to roll regularly into Haywards Heath railway station for the first time since the 1960s, although not for ten years or so yet.
A Dartmoor man who lives in Brentor's old railway station fears the spectre of the line's possible reopening following the Dawlish collapse could hit the sale of his home.
A new walking and cycling route - possibly incorporating the eye-catching Darcy Lever Viaduct - will be created along the disused Bolton to Bury railway, after councillors gave plans the green light.
Network Rail has revealed the disused line through Tavistock would be its preferred choice of an alternative to the storm-battered railway line at Dawlish.
Business leaders are pushing for a road and rail tunnel under the Pennines as a "radical solution" to the longstanding problems travelling from Bolton to South Yorkshire.
A derelict railway tunnel under Queensbury, blocked for decades, could soon become one of the longest underground cycleways in Europe, linking Halifax to Bradford.
Volunteers have been rejuvenating the old railway between Gobowen and Oswestry and, thanks to their dedicated work, the dream of reopening is becoming a reality.
