The prettiest stretch of old track is now a perfect muddy escape above the valley, but the beauty hits differently when you ...

More than 6,000 people used it on its opening day, with hundreds of thousands travelling on it during its first year.

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

However, in the decades following nationalisation in 1948, the number of stations declined sharply due to financial pressures and competition from road transport, a period which included the 'Beeching ...