Rail track may become cycle route (BBC News)
 

A disused railway line in the Wye Valley could become a traffic-free route for walkers and cyclists.

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Good idea it would keep the route clear and who knows maybe one day trains could run there again.

personally i think the old track beds should be used for something. Not every
stretch of disused track can be reopened as a steam railway. My main gripe about sustrans is its claim to promote sustainable transport(cycling and walking) when virtually all its schemes are nowhere near where people travel in large numbers for any reason other than pleasure.
Richard

Last year and despite all the work going on in trying to get the Wisbech & March Bramley Line opened up, one stupid Joker suggested concreting it over as a cycle way. IF you see a cyclist between the two towns on this route, you are extremely lucky. Most cyclists refuse to cycle because of the condition of the local roads, then the sheer Maniacs that race their cars in full knowledge the police rarely patrol.

We ARE going to run trains on there.

In Bristol the onl Midland Railway track from Bristol to Bath and Bristol to Chipping Sodbury are both used as a foot/cycle path and both are very well used every day, not just at weekends. Around Bitten, we have the Avon Valley Railway whichalso uses the old track. The two run side by side very well.

Hi Syd Good idea so you have a cycle path and trains side by side, trains may never run on the Wye Valley line but there's always the option.

It is good to see that Sustrans can coexist with Heritage Railways. Hope that the same will hapen at Bodmin as they push towards Wadebridge!

Just so long as they don't turn them into BUS routes!!!!! Like there are doing at Leigh (Mchr)

Cambridge to St Ives track now gone and rapidly being replaced by concrete ribbons for guided bus and then they talk about an East /West freight line.
wonder where they will put that (if anywhere)
John (G)

Our local council and bus Co. (First) tried to change our cycle/foot path into a rapid bus route. They got such a flea in the ear from all the local people and a number of people who visit that they did a quick turn around. The bus lanes in Bristol already cause twice as much congestion than there was before they were put in. The service is very expensive and poor. Until they sort the buses out with prices that are affordable they will never get the cars off the roads. But they are not having our cycle/foot path.

As far as I can work out Mr Prescott was a great supporter of guided busses so bribed the Cambs Council with an A14 upgrade if they used the old track bed. They expect something like 14000 passengers a day or so I seem to remember butr of course that was the number of people using the A 14 in cars.
Pity very few stop off at Cambridge and now we more or less have lost the almost direct connection between Felixstowe and the ECML at Huntingdon.
Don't think many people ariound here wanted it either including the inventor of the guided bus himself who said it was not a suitable application of the idea. Since road and rail wheels on the same vehicle are common these days (LMS had busses like it yonks ago) perhaps the rails should have been used for that and kept the rail link in existance.
John