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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 ...
San Francisco and Oakland Railroad; San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad; San Pedro via Dominguez Line; San Pedro via Gardena Line; Santa Ana Line; Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Line; Santa Ana–Orange Line; Santa Monica Air Line; Sawtelle Line; Schuylkill Branch; Shorb Line; Sierra Madre Line; Sierra Vista Line; Silverton, Gladstone and ...
In 2013, some local residents obtained a lease from the MTA to use a part of the abandoned right-of-way as a community garden known as the Smiling Hogshead Ranch. [3] [12] [17] The garden was first conceived in 2011 as a guerrilla garden on the Degnon Terminal tracks, which split from the Montauk Cutoff. [18] As of 2024, it is still operative.
Utica and Syracuse Air Line Railway (U&SAL) - in 1881 the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway (BHT&W) [160] consolidated a chain of railroads to try and create its own line to the Erie Railroad from Rotterdam Junction. [161] The company president was General William Lathrop Burt, [162] so the project was nicknamed the Burt Line. The ...
The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...
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.
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.
Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway: Ontario: 1889–1938: Abandoned Preston and Berlin Railway: Waterloo Region, Ontario: 1857: Short-lived line connecting the city of Berlin (Kitchener) to the town of Preston. Line was later sold to GTR and became part of the Galt Subdivision. Prince Edward Island Railway: Prince Edward Island: 1871–1918