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For rail museums, see List of British railway museums. Many of the standard-gauge railways listed, including former branch lines and ex-mainline routes, were closed by British Railways under the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. Most have been restored and operate as heritage lines. A smaller number of lines were formerly industrial or colliery railways.
Carries London-Brighton Railway Line across the Ouse Valley: Ballochmyle Viaduct: River Ayr, East Ayrshire: 145 m (476 ft) 1848: Cat. A: Highest extant railway viaduct in Britain. Formerly largest masonry arch in the world. Bann Bridge: Coleraine, County Londonderry: 1924: Bascule bridge carrying the NI Railways Belfast–Derry line over the ...
The Lincolnshire lines of the Great Northern Railway are the railways, past and present, in the English county built or operated by the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Railway was authorised in 1846 and was to build from London to York via Newark and also a "Loop Line" via Lincoln .
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 Railway Haters: Opposition To Railways, From the 19th to 21st Centuries (Pen and Sword, 2019). Casson, Mark. The world's first railway system: enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain (Oxford UP, 2009). Clapham, J. H. An economic history of modern Britain; The early railway age, 1820–1850 (1930 ...
By 1923 there were some nine major railways operating in England and five in Scotland. In addition there were smaller companies, such as the Cambrian Railways and the many South Wales lines; the Furness and Hull and Barnsley Railways in England; and many much smaller lines. A brief note about each of the larger companies will illustrate how ...
The Historical Railways Estate (formerly known as the Closed-line Estate and the Burdensome Estate) is the land and infrastructure associated with closed lines. This transferred to BRB (Residuary) Limited , which was dissolved in 2013, and the HRE was transferred to the Highways Agency, which later became Highways England (HE) and then National ...
Media in category "Railway maps of the United Kingdom" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. Extract of 1889 Railway Map Showing Grosvenor Road station.png 315 × 396; 367 KB