National Highways (NH) prompted an outcry last year by hiring workmen to infill the single-arch structure in Great Musgrave, Cumbria, after claiming it was unstable.
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Campaigners have accused National Highways of using 'smoke and mirrors' to hide the true extent of its plans to infill or demolish potentially hundreds of historic railway structures. It emerged in January that the state-owned roads company was intending to put 134 bridges and tunnels beyond use, about one-third of which could be re-purposed.
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Victorian railway bridges which were due to be filled in with concrete in an act previously decried as 'cultural vandalism' will be repurposed as part of a new scheme to encourage walking and cycling, the transport secretary has announced. The government is halting the demolition of historic railway lines in the hope that they can be remodelled as routes which encourage greener means of travel.
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The Queensbury Tunnel is threatened by the same 'cultural vandals' at Highways England who have filled historic railway bridges with concrete.
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Campaigners have called on Dumfries & Galloway Council to take urgent action after a 'perverse decision' by planners has threatened to make the proposed reopening of a Scottish railway more difficult and costly.

In April last year, Highways England told the local authority of its intention to infill a disused bridge at Lochanhead, which spans the former Dumfries-Stranraer line.
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Speakers in a parliamentary debate have condemned the filling in of historic railway bridges by Highways England and accused the company of using a 'backdoor process' to avoid consulting widely.
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The infilling of a railway bridge in north Cumbria with concrete as stirred discontent among heritage groups.
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The picturesque railway bridges on this page are at risk of being filled in with thousands of tons of unsightly concrete or demolished amid health and safety concerns from road bosses.
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The Historical Railways Estate comprises about 3,200 bridges, tunnels and viaducts on disused railways throughout the UK. With the abolition of the residuary British Railways Board in 2013, the maintenance responsibility for this estate passed to Highways England (HE), who are a Government-owned, arms-length company monitored by the ORR.
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The structures are part of the Historical Railways Estate managed by Highways England on behalf of the DfT and comprises 3,800 bridges, tunnels and
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Campaigners fight to save hundreds of disused railway structures threatened with infilling or demolition. Scattered across our nation are relics of the transport revolution brought by the railway in the 19th Century and lost to another - driven by the motorcar - in the 20th. Fifty years ago, the idea that we might eventually reopen []
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Highways England plans to infill or demolish around 130 disused railways structures over the next five years, many of which are earmarked for reuse as part of reopened railways, heritage line extensions or greenways for active travel. The state-owned roads company manages the Historical Railways Estate of 3,200 bridges, viaducts and tunnels on behalf of the Department for Transport.
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The potential conversion of old railway lines into cycle and walking routes is being blocked by plans to infill more than 100 bridges, including more than 20 in Scotland, campaigners have claimed.
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Hundreds of potentially useful disused railway structures are threatened with demolition or infilling by Highways England under plans described by one campaigner as finishing off what Dr Beeching started. The government-owned company is responsible for managing the Department for Transports Historical Railways Estate (HRE) - a collection of around 3,200 bridges, tunnels and viaducts - some of which carry or span routes earmarked for walking and cycling, or for reopened railways and extensions to heritage lines. Blocking or severing the alignments would make reuse more difficult and expensive, possibly preventing the proposals from coming to fruition.
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According to the details published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the 10-year framework will involve inspection and remedial design. [Railscot note: includes disused railway structures in Scotland, such as the Leaderfoot Viaduct.]
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