Lost Railway Walks: Explore more than 100 of Britain’s lost railways

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a b c d e f "Walking Britain's Lost Railways – Listings". The Futon Critic . Retrieved 15 February 2020. TV preview: From the brilliantly addictive Bodyguard to excruciatingly awkward Wanderlust - The Independent O'Grady.S p.14 September 2018". Independent.co.uk. 14 September 2018. Woodhead line from Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Picadilly – steelworks, miniature railway, and musical tunnels!

The Ayot station was burnt down in a fire in 1948 but was never rebuilt and today it forms the car park for the Greenway foot and cycle route 57. After this, the line was mainly used for transporting goods to industrial suburbs as well as the Salvation Army Print Works and the County Mental Hospital at Hill End that were both built on the line. Rob walks along the former railway line between Ruabon and Barmouth in North Wales which had been a busy route prior to its closure in 1965. Along the way he visits the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct; rides the Llangollen Railway, canoes on Bala Lake and rides the Bala Lake Railway; hears the local sounds from a Harpist in Dolgellau and examines its history as a tourist line during the Victorian period. [18]Rob travels across Cornwall's first two railway lines—the Portreath Tramroad and Redruth and Chasewater Railway, where he learns more about the vital role they played in the county's mining industry. The Tunbridge Wells to Three Bridges railway line was opened on 9th July 1855, and ran from Tunbridge Wells, Groombridge, Withyam, Hartfield, Forest Row, East Grinstead and on to Three Bridges in the town of Crawley, West Sussex – a distance of 20 miles. Whilst it’s possible to start near to the village centre, we tend to head a little further out where there’s a layby along the London Road. This gives us a nice start with a small slope up and then a walk alongside some fields before heading into the tree-lined section that makes up the majority of our walk. Rob follows the line of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway from King's Lynn to Great Yarmouth, discovering a lost railway through some of the quietest parts of England, but also some of the richest country estates of all. Remains of a station at the London Road exit in St Albans still stand today having been converted into a nursery. Read More Related Articles

Rob Bell travels to Bangor, where he explores a lost line that was built in 1801 to transport Welsh slate from the local quarry, down to the sea. The line opened in October 1865 but in 1868 a new Midland main line railway to St Albans destroyed passenger demand for the line. As mentioned before, we prefer a loop when we go out walking. But sometimes this walk from Groombridge along the old railway line towards East Grinstead suits our needs. It’s quite a dry walk, so if it has been raining lots over the previous week, and other nearby walks are going to be particularly muddy, then this does appeal. Dartmoor Railway to feature on Channel 5 - Railway Advent Holden.M p.20 September 2018" . Retrieved 30 November 2018.Horsford, Simon (21 September 2018). " On the trail of Britain's lost railways - The Telegraph Horsford.S p.21 September 2018". The Telegraph . Retrieved 19 November 2018.