List Of British Heritage And Private Railways
This is a list of British heritage, private and preserved railways in, throughout and around Great Britain and the Channel Islands that are privately owned, kept or preserved, built, constructed and run for railway heritage and/or profit, not necessarily providing a meaningful public transportation service. For rail museums, see List of British railway museums.
Many of the standard-gauge railways (thus including former ex-branch lines and former ex-mainline routes, as well as ex-working colliery railways) listed were originally closed by British Railways (later shortened to British Rail) under the Beeching Cuts in the 1960s, even though further closures followed in the 1970s and into the 1980s, and then/later reconstructed, restored and reopened as private or preserved heritage lines.
Many of these preserved railways, heritage lines and railway centres alike are such popular tourist attractions all around the United Kingdom, they each make significant contributions to their local economies.
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