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* Trowell Junction - Trent Junction: Reduced to 2 or 3 trains a week from December 2008.
* Trowell Junction - Trent Junction: Reduced to 2 or 3 trains a week from December 2008.
==Re-openings and Openings==
===New and reinstated passenger services in recent years===
* Drumgelloch - Bathgate (December 2010)
* Kettering - Corby - Manton Junction [Melton Mowbray] (April 2009, limited service Kettering - Corby from February 2009)
* Stirling - Alloa (May 2008)
* Ebbw Vale Parkway - Cardiff (February 2008) (a link to Newport should reopen later)
* Hamilton - Larkhall (December 2005)
* Maryhill - Anniesland (September 2005)
* Whiteabbey (Bleach Green Junction) - Antrim (June 2003)
The line between Stratford and Tottenham Hale regained a regular interval service in December 2005 after a period with very few trains.
The Docklands Light Railway extended to Woolwich Arsenal in January 2009 and to Stratford International in August 2011. The first phase of the resuscitated East London line (partially reopened/partially new construction) opened in April 2010, with full service extending into south London the following month, and to Highbury & Islington in February 2011.  Since December 2011 the curve from Slade Green to Barnehurst (Perry Street Fork Junction), which had previously had a limited service, has been used by trains for most of the day, Mondays to Fridays.
A flyover at Nuneaton, partly new work and partly re-opening a closed line, came into use in 2006.  This avoids the need for trains between the Birmingham area and Leicester to cross the West Coast Main Line on the flat.
The [http://www.festrail.co.uk/whr_history_3.htm Welsh Highland Railway] - 2ft. gauge, closed in 1937 - has been rebuilt and extended to run between Caernarfon and Porthmadog (25 miles). The final section - including a flat crossing with the standard gauge line in Porthmadog, to effect a link with the Ffestiniog Railway - opened in April 2011.

Revision as of 20:16, 1 April 2017

Introduction

This document acts as an archive for Recent and Future Changes prior to 2012.

Route Closures and Service Reductions

Closures and significant service reductions in recent years

Lines closed:

  • Farringdon - Moorgate, London: March 2009, but the London Underground line between the same stations is not affected.
  • Fawkham Junction - Southfleet Junction: Regular passenger use ceased in November 2007, as a result of Eurostar services being diverted from London Waterloo to St Pancras. The line was converted to sidings, accessed only from Southfleet Junction, in April 2016, possibly temporarily.
  • Barkston South Junction - Barkston East Junction: Replaced by new curve at Allington, October 2005.

Lines closed for conversion to rapid transit or other alternative transport use:

  • Manchester - Oldham - Rochdale: Closed October 2009; most is now part of Manchester's tram/metro system, but that has street running through Oldham, following an interim period when trams used a now-closed section of the former railway.
  • Stratford - North Woolwich, London: Closed December 2006; part being converted to part of Docklands Light Railway and much of the remainder as part of Crossrail's Abbey Wood line.

Passenger service withdrawn, line still open:

  • Acton Main Line - Willesden West London Jn: Service withdrawn in December 2008, as a result of Cross Country ceasing to run trains to and from Brighton.
  • Reading West Junction - Oxford Road Junction: The summer Saturday service last ran in September 2008.
  • Nine Elms Junction - Linford Street Junction: Service withdrawn November 2007, as a result of Eurostar services being diverted from London Waterloo to St Pancras.
  • Stratford - North Woolwich, London: Service withdrawn December 2006; part of the line being converted to part of Docklands Light Railway and part of the rest being rebuilt as part of Crossrail's Abbey Wood line.
  • Newhaven Marine Station: The service comprising one train per day was suspended in August 2006 because of the alleged unsafe condition of the platform canopy.
  • Maindee curve, Newport, Gwent: Service withdrawn December 2005.
  • Lisburn - Antrim: Service withdrawn June 2003, on diversion of passenger trains via Bleach Green Junction.

Regular passenger service replaced by a very limited one:

  • Stechford - Aston: Limited service following closure of open-access operator Wrexham & Shropshire in January 2011.
  • Darlaston Jn - Pleck Jn [Walsall]: Reduced to one Walsall to Wolverhampton train, December 2008.
  • Trowell Junction - Trent Junction: Reduced to 2 or 3 trains a week from December 2008.

Re-openings and Openings

New and reinstated passenger services in recent years

  • Drumgelloch - Bathgate (December 2010)
  • Kettering - Corby - Manton Junction [Melton Mowbray] (April 2009, limited service Kettering - Corby from February 2009)
  • Stirling - Alloa (May 2008)
  • Ebbw Vale Parkway - Cardiff (February 2008) (a link to Newport should reopen later)
  • Hamilton - Larkhall (December 2005)
  • Maryhill - Anniesland (September 2005)
  • Whiteabbey (Bleach Green Junction) - Antrim (June 2003)

The line between Stratford and Tottenham Hale regained a regular interval service in December 2005 after a period with very few trains.

The Docklands Light Railway extended to Woolwich Arsenal in January 2009 and to Stratford International in August 2011. The first phase of the resuscitated East London line (partially reopened/partially new construction) opened in April 2010, with full service extending into south London the following month, and to Highbury & Islington in February 2011. Since December 2011 the curve from Slade Green to Barnehurst (Perry Street Fork Junction), which had previously had a limited service, has been used by trains for most of the day, Mondays to Fridays.

A flyover at Nuneaton, partly new work and partly re-opening a closed line, came into use in 2006. This avoids the need for trains between the Birmingham area and Leicester to cross the West Coast Main Line on the flat.

The Welsh Highland Railway - 2ft. gauge, closed in 1937 - has been rebuilt and extended to run between Caernarfon and Porthmadog (25 miles). The final section - including a flat crossing with the standard gauge line in Porthmadog, to effect a link with the Ffestiniog Railway - opened in April 2011.