Closed lines you have travelled on.

[contrex]

The Up line from Beckenham Junction to Birkbeck.

 

[Cheshire Scot]

I missed both Woodhead and Penmanshiel Tunnel from my list!

EDIT: (16/11) to add:
Broad Street
Tilbury Riverside
Falkirk Grahamston to Springfield yard
Anniesland to Maryhill Park - closed lifted re-laid and re-opened
Chaloners Whin to Selby

 

[alholmes]

As a few people have included London Underground I’ll throw in the DLR as well:

- North of Mudchute to Island Gardens (1987 route, across the Millwall Park viaduct)
- The north side of the triangle junction at West India Quay (the original DLR route from Poplar to Westferry)
- Original route through the old Pudding Mill Lane station

 

[Pinza-C55]

In about 1963 my family stayed in a camping coach at Cloughton on the Whitby & Scarborough and I have a vague memory of seeing Hayburn Wyke station as we rattled through it, aged 4 years old. That would be my rarest bit of track.
Oh and Washington - South Pelaw junction.

 

[Bevan Price]

Having read most of the above, I realise I had omitted these:
Penmaenshiel Tunnel
London Broad Street
Holborn Viaduct.
Bexhill West branch
Dover Western Docks plus the removed sides of the former triangle.
Kings Cross York Road, also Kentish Town, and connections to/from LT widened lines.
Folkestone East Jn - Pier.
Mundesley On Sea branch.
Carlisle avoiding lines, including Upperby temporary station (1994) and curve to Maryport line.

Also, a bit trivially, WCML Northbound slow line section through Norton Bridge...

and some more to check.

I could probably have done several other lines, but family holidays in some areas were before I had heard of Marples + Beeching. and did not realise what was soon going to happen. Cost was another reason why I never went to places like Brecon, or the Midland & Great Northern system.

 

[zwk500]

Also, a bit trivially, WCML Northbound slow line section through Norton Bridge...

I believe a fair amount of this track is still in place!

 

[Lemmy282]

If we are including London Underground, then I add the Aldwych branch, the original Moorgate line and Epping -Ongar.
How about the experimental slab track on up Midland line between Duffield and Derby? Definitely lifted now!

Nigel L

 

[Bevan Price]

I believe a fair amount of this track is still in place!

Not been since Covid, but it had been disconnected at both ends, so unusable.

 

[Calthrop]

Mundesley On Sea branch.

Re my post #167 -- drat you, sir ! (In the nicest possible way.)

I could probably have done several other lines, but family holidays in some areas were before I had heard of Marples + Beeching. and did not realise what was soon going to happen. Cost was another reason why I never went to places like Brecon, or the Midland & Great Northern system.

I never saw anything of the Brecon lines -- knew as at 1962 that they were shortly to close; but re me, lived too far away, plus aged 14, insufficient funds / absence of parental-or-equivalent "solo" permission or escorting. My acquaintance with the M&GN pre-Feb. 1959 was "happenstance" re where we then lived; and I basically missed the eastern half of that system. With the greater part of the M&GN system staying in use, mostly freight-only, after the big passenger closure (though mostly, not for very many years); I got post-1959, a few such surviving rags-and-tatters, variously by freight brake-van trip / enthusiasts' special: South Lynn -- East Rudham, Sheringham -- Melton Constable (majority thereof of course now operational as North Norfolk Railway), and (enthusiasts' special) Themelthorpe -- Lenwade, plus ex-GER linking to outside world, Wroxham -- Themelthorpe (Wroxham -- Aylsham now operational as 2ft. gauge Bure Valley Railway).

(Underlining, by some unsought computer weirdness -- don't know how to get rid of it.)

 

[High Dyke]

Still open for freight, but I did the Derby - Sinfin passenger service one evening, on an East Midlands Rover.

 

[Grumpy]

Ilkley. The trains used to run into the trainshed that is now the Sainsbury store.

No Sainsburys in Ilkley. M&S

Surprised no-one mentioned the west curves at Copley Hill and Horbury. Relatively late closures and easy for those wanting to colour in

 

[zwk500]

Not been since Covid, but it had been disconnected at both ends, so unusable.

IIRC OP's criteria were for lines that had been lifted, which this (on a point of technical pedantry) isn't.

 

[High Dyke]

IIRC OP's criteria were for lines that had been lifted, which this (on a point of technical pedantry) isn't.

On that basis, the Sinfin branch is still open, which negates my post somewhat.

However, I can include Barkston South -Barkston East chord, though the track is still stacked up alongside the formation. There's also Spalding - March (Deltic Broadsman r/tour), and the Lowfields line from Newark to Bottesford (between Newark and Kilvington)

 

[steamybrian]

If we are including London Underground, then I add the Aldwych branch, the original Moorgate line and Epping -Ongar.
How about the experimental slab track on up Midland line between Duffield and Derby? Definitely lifted now!

Nigel L

Aldwych branch track still in situ- used for filming.
Epping- Ongar now part of Epping- Ongar heritage railway.
Which line to Moorgate?

 

[Lemmy282]

Fair point, my mistake, missed the bit about being lifted, sorry

Nigel L

 

[Sunil_P]

Aldwych branch track still in situ- used for filming.
Epping- Ongar now part of Epping- Ongar heritage railway.
Which line to Moorgate?

Farringdon to Moorgate, closed 2009 in order to extend Thameslink platforms at Farringdon.

 

[zwk500]

Farringdon to Moorgate, closed 2009 in order to extend Thameslink platforms at Farringdon.

I believe this technically doesn't fulfill the OP criteria of track having been lifted (sorry!).

 

[AM9]

I believe this technically doesn't fulfill the OP criteria of track having been lifted (sorry!).

Yes it does, the junction at the southern end of Farringdon station is no longer there, it would be buried under the extended TL platform and the new Lizzie/Thameslink concourse.

 

[zwk500]

Yes it does, the junction at the southern end of Farringdon station is no longer there, it would be buried under the extended TL platform and the new Lizzie/Thameslink concourse.

But the track is still in place from Barbican to moorgate, no?

 

[Ken H]

No Sainsburys in Ilkley. M&S

Surprised no-one mentioned the west curves at Copley Hill and Horbury. Relatively late closures and easy for those wanting to colour in

Oops. sorry. I should know that!

 

[Ken H]

I believe this technically doesn't fulfill the OP criteria of track having been lifted (sorry!).

Is there still Network Rail track in place? Or is this disallowed because the TfL parallel track is still there?

 

[AM9]

But the track is still in place from Barbican to moorgate, no?

I'm not sure that it is continuous as it is now organised as storage for LU. However the claim is valid in respect of the western end of the route.

 

[steamybrian]

I'm not sure that it is continuous as it is now organised as storage for LU. However the claim is valid in respect of the western end of the route.

I agree that the track was removed at Farringdon (Junction) to allow the extension of the southbound platform.
I also suspect that the track is not continuous.

 

[CW2]

This has been a fascinating thread, which – once again – has served to remind us of the depth of knowledge and experience of this forum’s users. My own list is a lot thinner than some, but I hope you enjoy it anyway:

Scotland
Fort William old station
Balloch Pier
Penmanshiel

London Midland
Carnforth avoider (F&M Jn – East Jn)
Red Bank lines out of Manchester Victoria
OA&GB Jn curve towards Guide Bridge (route taken by the York Shrewsbury mail trains, avoiding Guide Bridge)
Hadfield – Penistone – Deepcar (Woodhead route)
Nuneaton avoiding line
Bicester – Claydon – Bletchley (being reinstated soon?)
Euston Up ECS Line “The Rat Hole”

Eastern
Disused ECML tunnel bore at Kings Cross
Barkston South – East curve
Bottesford West Jn – Newark North Gate
Lincoln St Marks
New Holland Pier
Church Fenton – Rotherham via Cudworth, plus connecting lines to /from Leeds
Chaloners Whin – Selby
Low Moor – Thornhill Jn via Heckmondwike
York Layerthorpe – Dunnington (Derwent Valley Light Railway)
Tursdale Jn – Leamside – Heworth
Newcastle – Blaydon via Scotswood

Anglia
March – Spalding

Western
Gloucester Eastgate
Gunnislake station

Southern
Folkestone Harbour
Dover Western Docks
I saw Reading Southern station on a number of occasions, but have no proof of ever travelling to / from it.

There's also a long list of "ones that got away" ...

 

[AJM580]

As it's been mentioned upthread, I can add Barkston South to East Jn, done in 1988 on a move to Skegness

 

[D6130]

I too can add Barkston South to East Junctions, as well as Gloucester Eastgate and Ardrossan Winton Pier.

 

[Sunil_P]

However the claim is valid in respect of the western end of the route.

Wot AM9 said.

 

[Bertone]

Anyone traveled the ex Midland Line - Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead?
Don’t recall seeing it mentioned.
Mind you it did close to passengers in 1947 but maybe used by our more senior forum members

 

[PeterY]

Anyone traveled the ex Midland Line - Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead?
Don’t recall seeing it mentioned.
Mind you it did close to passengers in 1947 but maybe used by our more senior forum members

My grandmother once told me how she used to travel from Hemel Hempstead to Harpenden for Sunday school trips and I'm now 64 I cycle the Hemel Hempstead to Harpenden line (The Nickey line) lots.
I know I'm way off the original topic.

 

[Spamcan81]

Other posts have jogged my memory and can add Tilbury Riverside and Barkston Sth. to Barkston East.