A new cycleway and footpath near Peterborough is due to follow a disused railway line between Sutton and Nene Valley Railway’s Wansford station.
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May 23 – Presentation to retiring RR Secretary
May 23 – Former line at Little Eaton to become a trail
May 23 – Battle stations over Norfolk’s unauthorised bridge infill
HRE Group Press release: The latest news on St Andrew’s Lane bridge at Congham, Norfolk which was infilled in 2021
Apr 2023 – Landmark £5m bridge to cross valley between Oldham and Tameside approved
Apr 2023 – Watton-Swaffham railway line could become 15km walking link
A former Norfolk railway line could become a new walking and cycling route between two of the county’s towns, according to newly-published documents.
Mar 2023 – Travel Routes in Somerset
Mar 2023 – “Missed opportunity” as National Highways rejects request for material from infilled bridge
Mar 2023 – Saughtree Station for sale
Mar 2023 – Selsey Tramway
Mar 2023 – Finding a new purpose
Click below for an interesting article on New Civil Engineer website titled “Abandoned rail links can boost transport connectivity”
Mar 2020 – Talk by RR Area Coordinators
Our Southern Area Coordinators, Keith Lawrie and Kevin Arnold are giving a talk about RR at the Slough & Windsor Railway Society on Friday evening 10th March.
Feb 2023 – Ningwood Station for sale
The basic station building appears to be intact, although enlarged and modernised and the two platforms still survive.
Feb 2023 – Former Feniton to Sidmouth railway line ‘should be turned into cycle route’
Jan 2023 – Council acts as rights breached on ‘emergency’ Norfolk bridge infill
HRE Group Press release: National Highways’ strategy of using permitted development rights to carry out destructive works to historic railway structures is “unravelling”
Jan 2023 – Somerset. Strawberry Line
Jan 2023 – Cycle Path Network and Bennerley Viaduct Eastern Ramp
Railway Ramblers is a big supporter of Friends of Bennerley Viaduct and are delighted that the Eastern Ramp is now progressing
Jan 2023 – Combe Down Tunnel – ultra-marathon in the dark
Jan 2023 – Rare Norfolk bridge lost to “destructive forces”
HRE Group Press release: National Highways has “failed to fulfil its statutory obligations”, according to campaigners, after it infilled a historic bridge using permitted development rights that have now expired.
Dec 2022 – Llantrisant Cardiff
Dec 2022 – Council acts as rights expire on emergency bridge infill
HRE Group Press release: National Highways has been told to apply for retrospective planning permission after failing to fulfil its statutory obligations under powers used to infill a historic railway structure.
Dec 2022 – Elan Valley Railway
Following assessment by specialist engineers, Devil’s Gulch rock cutting is to be repaired and reopened to Elan Valley Trail walkers/cyclists after all!
Dec 2022 – Yorkshire bridge not inspected before emergency infill scheme
HRE Group Press release on claims that a historic railway bridge had to be infilled because of a growing public safety risk despite having no recent records of its condition.
Nov 2022 – Historic Devon road bridge back to its best after painstaking facelift
Nov 2022 – Portishead re-opening approved, at last!
Nov 2022 – Outline business case submitted for reopening Tavistock to Plymouth rail line
Nov 2022 – 172-year-old railway sidings unearthed in Huddersfield
Nov 2022 – Chinnor Railway trackbed walk
Report of a specially arranged RR visit to the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway (CPRR) heritage line
Nov 2022 – Campaigners challenge ’emergency’ bridge work
Oct 2022 – Tarka Trail
Oct 2022 – Singapore FMSR/KTM railway
Singapore Post have issued a set of five stamps marking the Rail Corridor, a 24km walkway on the old FMSR/KTM railway
Oct 2022 – RR Isle of Man Holiday
Oct 2022 – Plans for infilling of Stoke Road railway bridge near Itchen Abbas are halted
There is an article in the Hampshire Chronicle that controversial plans to infill a bridge in the Upper Itchen Valley have been halted indefinitely.
Oct 2022 – The Bowline at Bowling Harbour
Scotland’s answer to the New York Highline was unveiled at Bowling Harbour in West Dunbartonshire with the transformation of a disused railway viaduct into a state-of-the-art linear park and walking, wheeling and cycling route
Oct 2022 – Pontarddulais – Grovesend
Conversion of a 1.6km section of former Central Wales line trackbed to a foot and cycle way has been completed
Oct 2022 – Great Musgrave Infill Notice
Eden District Council has now issued an enforcement notice for removal of the infill from Great Musgrave bridge. The structure and the landscape immediately around it must be returned to its pre-infill state
Oct 2022 – RR event – Isle of Man
The Yorkshire Branch claims another record – today’s walk must be the first railway ramble to have participating 50% gentlemen and 50% ladies!
Sep 2022 – Former world’s longest rail tunnel opens to public
Glenfield Railway Tunnel in Leicester once the longest in the world is to open to the public as part of a series of heritage days.
Sep 2022 – Sponsored walk along the Elizabeth line
A new event, part of Rail Aid 2022, are looking for participants to join a 15-mile walk following the route of the Elizabeth line.
Aug 2022 – Book Review: National Directory of Traditional Railway Societies 2022/23 edition
Aug 2022 – Spending on Trails
Aug 2022 – Major revamp of Newham Trail.
An article outlining a major revamp of Newham Trail as work begins on Truro Loops footpath has been featured in the local pre
Aug 2022 – Bennerley Viaduct Opening Party
The event to officially declare Bennerley Viaduct open & celebrate the Friends of Bennerley Viaduct signing a lease, and receiving funds from @HeritageFundUK is being held on Sunday 7th August. Railway Ramblers has previously contributed to the re-opening of Bennerley Viaduct and is currently donating two benches to be installed on the Western Ramp
July 2022 – Plan unveiled for viaduct bridge to join Oldham and Tameside
The crossing would let cyclists and walkers move between Oldham and Tameside across the Medlock Valley in Park Bridge
July 2022 – Book Review – ‘Railway Paths & Byways: Scottish Borders’
July 2020 – New book ‘National Directory of Traditional Railway Societies’
July 2022 – Campaigners urge enforcement action over tunnel infilling
HRE Group press release regarding Bradford Council’sfailure to take enforcement action after a disused railway tunnel was partially infilled using development powers which campaigners claim have been applied unlawfully.
Jun 2022 – Steaming back to Kirkby weekend Events
£5 Concert only tickets (pay on door or advance) now available for the ‘Singing the Steam’ concert at The Bentinck on Sunday, 10th July 2022 (1pm – 4pm). Snap / drinks break from 2pm – 2.45pm. Headline act is former Kirkby railwayman and folk singer / songwriter, Dave Goulder.
Jun 2022 – National Highways questioned over bridge infill “sweetener”
HRE Group press release regarding the National Highways role in committing taxpayers’ money to repairing a collection of old railway structures for which it has no responsibility if it was granted planning permission for a controversial bridge infill scheme.
Jun 2022 – New Book – ‘Railway Paths & Byways: Scottish Borders’
A new book titled ‘Railway Paths & Byways: Scottish Borders’ by Allan Foster has been released. RR will publish a review on the book later in the year.