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.