Hah - thank you!Here's a link to a picture of the connection. Scroll down a bit and you'll find it.
No, that's the Border Counties Railway, which met the Waverley at Riccarton Junction. Some of it is under Kielder Reservoir, but much remains, including the wonderful Kielder viaduct, which you can walk both over and underHow about the rest of the Waverley Line? I think part of it is under a large reservoir now.
Waterloo Necropolis Railway - I imagine you'd have to move graves in the cemetery and then there's the London end...
Liverpool Overhead Railway!
I'm not convinced about the difficulty of this. As I understand it, most of the route is still there and unobstructed. I've never been quite sure how the line got from the docks to Seaforth Sands, and there have been collapses in the underground section to Dingle, but those issues aside, I don't think that anything would have to be demolished to put the line back. For the line to be an overhead railway again, a new structure (uprights and deck) would have to be built - but that's not difficult, just expensive.
Expensive? Yes
Worthwhile? Probably not (a lot depends on the nature of Peel's plans for redeveloping the North and Central docks)
Difficult? No.
I've never been quite sure how the line got from the docks to Seaforth Sands,
Difficult? No.
Waterloo Necropolis Railway - I imagine you'd have to move graves in the cemetery and then there's the London end...
Perhaps if it had made it to the mid-1970s it might have been absorbed into Merseyrail, with extensions and connections to what is now Merseyrail. A Chicago-style "El'" of sorts...Yes the expense would be the thing, I think it would have made a great tourist atraction had the original survived, but yes I take your point on its validity and possibly redevelopment strategies.
Perhaps if it had made it to the mid-1970s it might have been absorbed into Merseyrail, with extensions and connections to what is now Merseyrail. A Chicago-style "El'" of sorts...
It's been mentioned a couple of times, so it must be considered difficult for the reasons you cite...Holmfirth branch although very short is missing a viaduct and some of the track bed and all of the station area has been built on.
The Kirkburton branch would be tough to make a business case for... almost every bridge removed, houses or industrial units built all over the route, and it was a VERY round-the-houses way of getting from a large-ish village into Huddersfield. Apparently Rowley Viaduct survives hidden in the trees behind the Morrison's but you'd never know when you look from the A629 Penistone Road!
I've walked parts of it round Far Dene. It's certainly less of a challenge than Holmfirth, but it was such a silly route to a fairly insignificant village (though the Textile mills there were the main reason it existed)* that even if it was just a case of putting the track down, it wouldn't wash its face financially in a million years.I would commend a walk on the old trackbed parts of which are accessible (and indeed a cycle route over a viaduct near deighton) despite the missing bridges. The line doubles back on itself at deighton (it heads out from Huddersfield in opposite direction to Kirkburton!) and goes behind the old ICI / Syngenta chemical works. You can get onto the old trackbed near deighton and also in places from the road which runs parallel (but higher up) to the Syngenta works. You can also get onto the old line near what used to be called the Royal and Ancient pub at Bradley.
The line crossed Wakefield Road, Hudds at Waterloo where the bridge is missing and then goes across behind the new care home parallel to Fenay Bridge Lane. You can get onto this part of the old trackbed down some small paths.
Eminently doable. There's space alongside the road. As per Wikipedia: "A 1996 study commissioned by Warwickshire County Council and Stratford-on-Avon District Council concluded that reinstatement to Stratford station is still feasible, but would require the re-modelling of Evesham Place roundabout and replacement of the cycleway alongside Seven Meadows Road and the footpath between Sandifield Road and Evesham Place to be converted into railway."