Thousands of residents are outraged at plans to reopen the railway between Consett and Gateshead - a corridor rich in wildlife and used by many for walking and cycling.

Community campaigners are optimistic the world-renowned Bennerley Viaduct will reopen later this year after extensive refurbishment.

A long-running project to build a greenway along part of the disused Wye Valley Railway has culminated in the reopening of Tidenham Tunnel.

Queensbury Tunnel campaigners who want to see the historic structure safeguarded for future generations have hit out after a Minister blamed a landowner for current difficulties.

Network Rail is advising people who use the disused Leven railway corridor to ‘be aware’ as activity increases ahead of work to reinstate the line.

A rail group is bidding for government funding to investigate reopening a disused railway from Ironbridge to Bridgnorth.

A £50,000 bid has been submitted to fund a feasibility study into reopening the disused Amlwch-Gaerwen railway.

Campaigners who want Queensbury Tunnel to be used for cyclists and walkers say more money has been committed to abandoning the Victorian structure than it would cost to repair.

Plans to create an urban garden on the disused railway viaducts in the Old Town area of Leamington are being discussed.

Welsh Ministers have been urged to put their hands in their pockets for a cycle path between Carmarthen and Llandeilo, much of which follows the route of a disused railway.

Sustainable Transport Northamptonshire is seeking to reinstate the old Rugby-Leicester railway, together with two passenger stations, on the former Great Central route.

An MP has submitted a bid to the Restoring Your Railways Fund for a feasibility study into the potential for reinstating the old railway connecting Silloth and Carlisle.

Part of a former Somerset railway could be brought back into use to provide a vital pedestrian and cycling link into Shepton Mallet town centre.

MPs and local councils are hoping it will be second time lucky as they look to secure government funding for a plan to restore the Stoke-to-Leek railway which has been closed since 1988.

Plans to create six new circular cycle routes through the Cotswold Water Park have stepped up a gear, including one along a disused railway.

Sustrans and the North York Moors National Park Authority are looking into the possibility of reopening Sandsend and Kettleness tunnels for cyclists using the Cleveland Way.

Reinstating a disused railway line in the north-east would provide major economic, environmental and social benefits to the region, council leaders claim.

An ambitious plan to extend a railway link in County Durham now has the backing of four local MPs, but some local councillors are not convinced.

The leader of Carlisle City Council has indicated that significant progress could be imminent on efforts to reopen Waverley Viaduct across the River Lune, a long hoped-for project in the city.

An MSP has called for the former Powderhall railway to be transformed into a green corridor, linking up with walking and cycle paths in north Edinburgh.

The Cambrian Heritage Railways organisation is bidding for Government funding to reopen the first section of the old Oswestry-Gobowen railway that was closed in the 1960s.

Residents in Horspath are protesting to stop a historic Victorian railway bridge from being removed against the community's wishes.

Hopes of reinstating the railway between Witney and Oxford are back on track, with a proposal set to be submitted to Government.

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition objecting to Highways England’s plans to infill or demolish more than 100 disused railway bridges.

A campaign to reopen Durham's historic Belmont Viaduct as a bridleway and cycle route is gathering pace.

Police have been forced to break up a large party - which was in breach of coronavirus restrictions - in a disused railway tunnel in west Glasgow.

Rotarians have unveiled plans for a Railway Art Heritage Trail in a bid to upgrade a section of disused railway used as part of the Great Central Way.

Network Rail has launched a search for contractors to reopen the Portishead to Pill line.

The Tintern Wireworks Bridge, which carried a goods branch across the border between Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, is to undergo repairs.

Calls to reopen the Alloa-Dunfermline railway are continuing despite the route being left out of a recent Scottish government transport plan.

The Catesby Tunnel testing facility in Northamptonshire is set to provide a state-of-the-art facility for aerodynamic testing and vehicle development when it opens later this year.

A petition has been launched calling for the 21-mile Leamside railway in the north-east to be reopened, a move which the local MP claims "would bring massive benefits".

A disused Victorian signal box at Devon's Torre Station has been sold at auction for £65,750 - well over the guide price - and could now be converted into a holiday home.

After ten years of planning, fundraising and feasibility work, a heritage trust is finally starting to restore a vast railway goods shed in Llanelli.

A historic rail bridge at the bottom of Northumberland garden faces infill as part of a wider move by Highways England to infill or bulldoze hundreds of similar structures.

Highways England has been accused of using emergency powers to demolish or infill disused railway bridges that campaigners say could be given a new lease of life as part of cycle routes.

Contractors taking up rails from a street in Weymouth have discovered another track below it that is thought to be part of a branch line from the 1930s.

A group campaigning to develop a network of paths along disused railway lines in Somerset are submitting a public right of way claim after Highways England fenced off a tunnel used for decades by local walkers.

Ambitious plans for a mass transit system in West Yorkshire – including possible tramways on disused railways – is dependent on accessing billions in government cash.

MP Bridget Phillipson has said that reopening the disused Leamside Line in County Durham would boost local jobs and improve transport access to the area.

A £760 million fund will be spent on reinstating the old line between Bicester and Bletchley as part of the East-West Rail project, with services due to start in 2025.

Heritage enthusiasts have discovered that a disused railway bridge outside Hampstead Norreys is one of hundreds across the country at risk of demolition or infill by government agency Highways England.

Police have seized equipment that could have been used for an illegal rave in a disused South London railway tunnel, breaching Covid-19 restrictions.

The potential conversion of old railway lines into cycle and walking routes is being blocked by plans to infill more than 100 bridges, including more than 20 in Scotland, campaigners have claimed.

Hundreds of potentially useful disused railway structures are threatened with destruction by government agency Highways England, argues an alliance of engineers, active travel campaigners and greenway developers.