Britain’s lost railways, county by county
12,905 miles of disused railway and 6,150 closed stations across 99 counties. Each page names every lost line and lists every closed station in the county, and opens the map on it with the old lines drawn over today’s network.
England
- Bedfordshire 44 miles, 26 closed stations
- Berkshire 33 miles, 19 closed stations
- Bristol 17 miles, 11 closed stations
- Buckinghamshire 71 miles, 38 closed stations
- Cambridgeshire 204 miles, 81 closed stations
- Cheshire 145 miles, 92 closed stations
- Cornwall 176 miles, 20 closed stations
- County Durham 386 miles, 119 closed stations
- Cumbria 364 miles, 171 closed stations
- Derbyshire 330 miles, 129 closed stations
- Devon 342 miles, 128 closed stations
- Dorset 150 miles, 46 closed stations
- East Riding of Yorkshire 146 miles, 72 closed stations
- East Sussex 94 miles, 31 closed stations
- Essex 93 miles, 57 closed stations
- Gloucestershire 208 miles, 122 closed stations
- Greater London 96 miles, 166 closed stations
- Greater Manchester 283 miles, 165 closed stations
- Hampshire 205 miles, 77 closed stations
- Herefordshire 122 miles, 53 closed stations
- Hertfordshire 43 miles, 36 closed stations
- Isle of Wight 49 miles, 28 closed stations
- Kent 148 miles, 105 closed stations
- Lancashire 179 miles, 134 closed stations
- Leicestershire 200 miles, 85 closed stations
- Lincolnshire 379 miles, 189 closed stations
- Merseyside 121 miles, 115 closed stations
- Norfolk 314 miles, 134 closed stations
- North Yorkshire 427 miles, 203 closed stations
- Northamptonshire 213 miles, 68 closed stations
- Northumberland 245 miles, 96 closed stations
- Nottinghamshire 221 miles, 86 closed stations
- Oxfordshire 114 miles, 62 closed stations
- Rutland 18 miles, 9 closed stations
- Shropshire 186 miles, 128 closed stations
- Somerset 255 miles, 124 closed stations
- South Yorkshire 240 miles, 114 closed stations
- Staffordshire 256 miles, 110 closed stations
- Suffolk 107 miles, 60 closed stations
- Surrey 40 miles, 11 closed stations
- Tyne and Wear 202 miles, 103 closed stations
- Warwickshire 143 miles, 50 closed stations
- West Midlands 110 miles, 100 closed stations
- West Sussex 79 miles, 28 closed stations
- West Yorkshire 308 miles, 165 closed stations
- Wiltshire 125 miles, 66 closed stations
- Worcestershire 56 miles, 52 closed stations
Scotland
- Aberdeen 74 miles, 25 closed stations
- Aberdeenshire 192 miles, 105 closed stations
- Angus 154 miles, 50 closed stations
- Argyll and Bute 27 miles, 23 closed stations
- Clackmannanshire 13 miles, 14 closed stations
- Dumfries and Galloway 192 miles, 77 closed stations
- Dundee 12 miles, 18 closed stations
- East Ayrshire 157 miles, 32 closed stations
- East Dunbartonshire 26 miles, 10 closed stations
- East Lothian 41 miles, 22 closed stations
- East Renfrewshire 10 miles, 9 closed stations
- Edinburgh 59 miles, 60 closed stations
- Falkirk 91 miles, 15 closed stations
- Fife 221 miles, 58 closed stations
- Glasgow 61 miles, 59 closed stations
- Highland 141 miles, 76 closed stations
- Inverclyde 14 miles, 7 closed stations
- Midlothian 41 miles, 27 closed stations
- Moray 107 miles, 60 closed stations
- North Ayrshire 103 miles, 27 closed stations
- North Lanarkshire 172 miles, 48 closed stations
- Perth and Kinross 140 miles, 74 closed stations
- Renfrewshire 46 miles, 25 closed stations
- Scottish Borders 180 miles, 68 closed stations
- South Ayrshire 42 miles, 32 closed stations
- South Lanarkshire 169 miles, 53 closed stations
- Stirling 106 miles, 35 closed stations
- West Dunbartonshire 15 miles, 8 closed stations
- West Lothian 81 miles, 19 closed stations
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent 27 miles, 17 closed stations
- Bridgend 53 miles, 20 closed stations
- Caerphilly 76 miles, 45 closed stations
- Cardiff 32 miles, 14 closed stations
- Carmarthenshire 73 miles, 44 closed stations
- Ceredigion 53 miles, 25 closed stations
- Conwy 22 miles, 8 closed stations
- Denbighshire 50 miles, 24 closed stations
- Flintshire 48 miles, 31 closed stations
- Gwynedd 212 miles, 78 closed stations
- Isle of Anglesey 29 miles, 12 closed stations
- Merthyr Tydfil 27 miles, 17 closed stations
- Monmouthshire 52 miles, 34 closed stations
- Neath Port Talbot 81 miles, 41 closed stations
- Newport 36 miles, 13 closed stations
- Pembrokeshire 67 miles, 25 closed stations
- Powys 187 miles, 81 closed stations
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 91 miles, 55 closed stations
- Swansea 28 miles, 37 closed stations
- Torfaen 47 miles, 24 closed stations
- Vale of Glamorgan 15 miles, 25 closed stations
- Wrexham 61 miles, 44 closed stations
Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland 564 miles, 216 closed stations
Counties are today’s ceremonial counties in England, principal areas in Wales and council areas in Scotland, with Northern Ireland as one. The figures come from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata; see the disused lines page for what counts as disused and the closed stations page for where the stations come from.