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The trackbed from Accrington to Baxenden is now a linear treelined cycleway / footpath. As of November 2011 Hyndburn borough council has plans to re-open the rail link to manchester.
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There is a disused railway trackbed from Plumstead which once served the Royal Arsenal.
The trackbed of the southern part of the branch, from Poplar to Bow, was used for the Docklands Light Railway ( DLR ) branch to Stratford.
, construction is underway for Crossrail will pass through the area from 2018, using the trackbed of the old North London Line.
The motorway would then have run around the side of Bottoms Reservoir to reach Hadfield, from which the trackbed of the Woodhead railway line ( the former intercity route between Manchester and Sheffield, now closed ) was to have been followed up the Longdendale valley to Woodhead.
The Camel Trail, used by walkers and cyclists, follows the trackbed of the old Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway from Wenfordbridge, past the outskirts of Bodmin at Dunmere, and through Wadebridge to end in Padstow.
The trackbed of the closed railway line from Sheffield to Manchester via Woodhead now forms the Trans-Pennine Trail.
The trackbed has now been tarmaced and now forms an off-road cycle way and footpath from Exmouth to Knowle, close Budleigh Salterton.
The Tiverton Museum was opened during this time, the trackbed of the old railway was bought up and now remains as footpaths and an adventure playground, and the Grand Western Canal was saved from dereliction and revived as a country park.
The site of Dolgellau railway station along with approximately a mile and a half of trackbed of the former Great Western Railway line from Ruabon to Barmouth was used to construct the Dolgellau bypass in the late 1970s.
There is also the long Welsh Highland Heritage Railway which runs from Porthmadog along the trackbed of the former Cambrian Railway exchange siding and connects to the WHR main line at Pen-y-Mount junction.
The section from west of Colwyn Bay railway station to the Station Road overbridge at Mochdre was constructed on the trackbed of the North Wales Coast railway.
The old trackbed of the railway that once connected Penarth to Cadoxton and Barry Island and was closed by the Beeching Axe is now a rural greenway and cycle track from the Archer Road rail bridge as far as the Fort Road bridge in Lavernock.
The course of the connection from Boxmoor is discernible in places ; the gasholders at Duckhall are still present and the boundaries delineate the curve of the original trackbed.
However a stretch of trackbed from Wootton to the outskirts of Newport at Halberry Lane is still free from development and could in theory be used in the future.
The society that operates the line started steam locomotive operations in 1971, and bought the trackbed and line from British Rail in 1986.
The line would run from the Liverpool Docks to Sheffield using the disused Woodhead Tunnel and then turn south via the Erewash Valley, joining the former Great Central Main Line ( much of whose trackbed is still intact and which was built with a continental loading gauge in the first place ) south of Leicester.
Running from Dowlow, near Buxton, to High Peak Junction, Cromford, it follows the trackbed of the former Cromford and High Peak Railway, which was completed in 1831 to carry minerals and goods between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge.
The link road from the proposed Ballinasloe-Galway dual carriageway to Loughrea removed most of the remains of the original trackbed.
Bitton station and its yard, including some trackbed, was leased from British Railways Board by the Bristol Suburban Railway Society, a group of local volunteers intent on restoring commuter and weekend steam use to the Bristol-Mangotsfield-Bath and Mangotsfield-Yate railway routes.
The trackbed from Steanbow Crossing to Cock Mill Crossing, between the sites of Pylle and West Pennard stations, crosses the site of the Glastonbury Festival and functions as an internal road within the festival site.
A section from Alton to Alresford is preserved as the Watercress Line but the final gap from Alresford to Winchester is unlikely ever to be reinstated due to housing having been built on the trackbed.
The only parts that were sold were the Callow Hill quarry and the trackbed from the exchange sidings at Pontesbury through to Callow Lane near Minsterley.
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The trackbed is still visible.
The railway is built on the trackbed of the East Norfolk Railway ( ENR ).
Station Road leads down to the former Rayne railway station, which is now the Rayne Station Centre of the Flitch Way Country Park, a linear park stretching along the former trackbed of the railway.
The trackbed is used for walking, cycling and horseriding ; It is known as the Middlewood Way.
Opened in July 1937 after the LMS handed over the trackbed to Staffordshire County Council, it is tarmacked throughout.
The site of Seahouses station is now the town carpark and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.
The trackbed through the parish is now part of National Cycle Route 6.
Today the trackbed is in part used by the Downs Link, and the station's old platform levels are still visible at the rear of the shops.
The highway crosses the right of way of the historic Camden & Amboy railroad ; there is no bridge over the trackbed that is abandoned only a short few feet to the north and a few miles south around the Hightstown area.
This section of line was last used in 1984, and the entire trackbed remains intact, even though the track itself is long gone.
The trackbed south of Arctic Road is now maintained as a cycle path.
Sustrans was allowed to re-use the former trackbed to create the Phoenix Trail which is part of National Cycle Network route 57.
The main track has long been dismantled but the trackbed is now a walking route through the forest.
A section of the trackbed is used as part of the South West Coast Path.
The southern end of the bridge is now the start of the Mawddach Trail, a cycle path and walk way that utilises the old trackbed.
The site of Dungannon station is now a public park and the former trackbed through the station is now a greenway.
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The Manifold Valley footpath and cycle way ( now called the Manifold Way ) was opened in July 1937 after the LMS handed over the trackbed to Staffordshire County Council.
The track has been lifted and the trackbed now forms part of National Cycle Network Route 62 and a public footpath between Liverpool and Southport.
Most of the former trackbed is now part of the Forest Way, forms part of National Cycle Route 21, and is much used by walkers and cyclists.
The old trackbed of the Newport-Sandown railway runs through it, and is now a cycleway.
From here the trackbed is now a public footpath for about a mile towards Glenfield tunnel, to.
The trackbed is now largely used as a walking route and cycle path.
Part of the trackbed of the railway is now covered by the line of the M25 which runs to the north of the town.
Whitwick railway station still has some surviving structures, the platform and the old station building, now the home of the Whitwick Historical Group, while the railway trackbed towards Coalville has been turned into a footpath.
The trackbed of these rails is now overgrown, with vegetation visible immediately to the north of the station.
The A1, built 1963 − 1965, now follows the old rail trackbed as far as Barton quarries.
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