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This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom, examples exist of opened railways which formerly constituted cross-country main trunk lines as well as many more which served more local, or exclusively industrial, needs.
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.
An abandoned branch of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, England Example of conversion of part of an abandoned railway line to a regenerated habitat. An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have ...
This category is for closed railway lines in Queensland. This includes completely closed railway lines, rail trails, lines that are only used for freight, or tracks that once existed but have been removed.
Fredericksburg and Northern Railway [8] Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad [9] Houston, East & West Texas Railroad [10] Houston & Texas Central Railway [11] Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Inter-California Railway; Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC) International–Great Northern Railroad [12] LaPorte Houston Northern ...
Anacortes Railway (Defunct) Chehalis–Centralia Railroad; Chelatchie Prairie Railroad; George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line (Closed in 2005) Issaquah Valley Trolley (Closed in 2020, reopening proposed) Inland Northwest Rail Museum; Lake Whatcom Railway (Out of Service since 2019) Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad
The newly formed and renamed Old Colony and Newport Railway Company completed the final section of the line from Fall River to Newport which finally opened for service on February 5, 1864. In 1865, the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company acquired the Dighton and Somerset Railroad. It completed a new, more direct route between Fall River and ...
In 1849 the market town of Cheadle, population 3,000, was still without any form of rail transport.The North Staffordshire Railway had completed its Stoke to Derby line in 1848 and the Churnet Valley Line the following year but both of the lines missed the town, passing around 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the south and north of Cheadle respectively.