Heritage fans are steaming over government plans to destroy rail bridges and tunnels across Britain. Campaigners say a 10-year wrecking ball programme is “brutal vandalism”.
Some 130 structures on old lines loved by ramblers face demolition or being filled in. In total, 480 could go. Highways England says the plan – costing £13million for phase one alone – is necessary because the structures cannot safely handle traffic flows.
But campaigners say it could stop railways from reopening, halt heritage lines extending and thwart the creation of cycle and walking trails.
Rob Bell, host of C5 show Walking Britain’s Lost Railways, said: “I’m frustrated and disappointed. Many of these structures may well belong to big government agencies but, in
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