Disused lines around Beccles Beccles is a small town in Suffolk, it used to be a main railway centre with the East Suffolk line and the Waveney valley line going through. I go back to explore the Cambrian Railway Line from Oswestry to Welshpool once again in an effort to discover more about the lost stations on this route. The railways in the area rapidly declined in the 1950s and 60s even in the 1980s. I worked for a short line for a few years and was involved in a few proposals that were very offbeat. Yep, the "Cambridge & St. Ives Branch" immediately springs to mind.The Cambridge to St. Ives section is now used by the [Mis]Guided Bus[t]way, although there was a leaflet from June 1994 proposing to re-open the railway. Now Beccles has an eyesore of a station and a now singled East Suffolk line running through it. Post subject: "American Railway Explorer" mothballed. The North Staffordshire Railway This branch joined Stoke-on-Trent to Stockton Brook and Leek, then Caldon Low Quarry.

Elsewhere in New Zealand, perfectly functional tracks are mothballed or closed to passenger services, as rail operators decide declining regional populations mean the maintenance of lines … We think this line is a #1 priority. Joined: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:51 pm ... Railroads deal with offbeat proposals all the time. Find out more about Leek - Stoke ; Hereford - … The line to Cheadle passing under the A50 has also lost its track. From St. Ives, the line split into three branches; most of the former trackbed around the town is used by the A1096 bypass. First train marks return of mothballed Napier to Wairoa rail line ... Mayor Craig Little for promoting the reopening of the rail line.

The line to Dudley Port was used as a freight line until it was mothballed in the late 1980s.

The line to Dudley Port was used as a freight line until it was mothballed in the late 1980s. Passenger traffic ended in 1966, and freight in 1988, but does the continued existence of the track mean that Tarmac are paying Network Rail to keep the line mothballed in case of possible future limestone quarry requirements? If lines had been mothballed, or if ownership of the trackbeds had been retained by British Rail even after they were ripped up, with developers barred from building on them, things could have been so … Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:47 am .

This mothballed railway line (in operation until 1988) would bring Leek (population 21,000) back onto the network, allow freight traffic from a nearby quarry and give an existing heritage line a connection to the mainline.

On my travels I have noticed over the last couple of months track on a number of mothballed lines being ripped up. Recently the track has disappeared on the two branches between Junctions 30 and 29A on the M1.