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Walking Britain's Lost Railways is a British documentary television series presented by Rob Bell that first aired on Channel 5 on 21 September 2018. A second series premiered on Channel 5 on 9 February 2020. [1]
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.
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 ...
Severn Tunnel (1810) Tramroad: 126: 138: Abandoned, uncompleted in 1812 after flooding ... Also called Summit or Beacons Tunnel. Highest rail tunnel in UK at 1,313 ...
Abandoned proposal for an extension of line from Aldwych Watford Central: Metropolitan: 1927 [82] New station on new route Part of abandoned Metropolitan line extension to Watford town centre West End: North West London Railway: 1899 [53] 1908 [54] Company failed to raise funds and permissions expired Wood Green: Great Northern & Strand Railway ...
Fritchley Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel at Fritchley in Derbyshire, England, which is believed to be the oldest surviving example in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The tunnel was constructed in 1793 by Benjamin Outram as part of the Butterley Gangroad , altered in the 1840s, and remained in use until the railway closed in 1933.
Connor, J.E. (2003) London's Disused Stations, Volume Four, The South Eastern Railway, including the Woodside & South Croydon Joint Line. Connor & Butler, Colchester, ISBN 978-0-947699-37-6 Connor, J.E. (2005) London's Disused Stations, Volume Five, The London & South Western Railway, including the Tooting Merton & Wimbledon Railway and West ...
By the time the tunnel was finished, having taken four years to build and a further three to complete the railway approaches to it, the project had crippled the finances of the Carmarthen to Cardigan Railway, which soon went into receivership. After the railway was closed to freight traffic in October 1973, and the track was removed two years ...