The line was closed as part of the Beeching Cuts, and in 1971, the county council obtained the land to create a bypass around the village of Breamore.

The last train to run on the line was in April 1999 and the track was taken up in 2011. Derbyshire County Council took over the disused railway from Network Rail in 2014. The transformation into a ...

A disused Northumberland railway line is set to reopen to the public as a "multi-accessible greenway" on the 60th anniversary of its closure. The Alnwick to Cornhill Railway officially closed on ...

Therefore, the county council approved transforming the disused railway line into a public footpath with permissive cycling rights.