It is being widely reported that Boris Johnson has intervened to halt the plans to fill in dozens of Victorian railway crossings with concrete eg
Here’s a link to a Newsnight programme on BBC Two from 26th July. The item on Highways England’s vandalism of legacy bridges begins at 33:20 and includes Graeme Bickerdike and the historian Dan Cruickshank
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000yb0r/newsnight-26072021