Old Railway Lines

[medicman]

Who owns all the thousands of miles of old railway cuttings and embankments?
When a lot of the railways disapeared after the Beeching report, who owns the old track beds.
Did they revert to the local council ownership or are they still the property of the Railways. As they are all private companys, who owns the old track now?

[steve2010]

the rail companies

[Toureman]

A lot of them have been sold off to local councils or road authorities, at the end of the M55 leading into Blackpool about 2 miles of track has been turned into a dual carriageway and car park.

Many others have been turned into footpaths and cycle tracks throughout the country.

[Mr.Nose]

andrew bedford an englishman whose parents moved here from france many years ago

[johncas]

The british railways property board owned them untill sold to private railways preservation or for cycle paths roads development most are used by farmers