Sentence examples for railways closed from inspiring English sources

Nuclear reactors have been shut down and roads and railways closed.

Station improvements at Birmingham New Street and Reading, Berkshire, and some £4bn improvements for Scotland including reopening 31 miles of railways closed nearly 50 years ago.

Postwar Londoners failed to return as holidaymakers and the railway closed.

It was originally called the Station Bar but, after the Strathspey Railway closed in 1965, the name was changed.

Warner says the arc of the storyline will end two books later with the railway closed down, the tracks lifted.

After the railway closed the bridge was demolished and for years a long, steep detour put most people off riding the route.

When the railway closed in 1960, the pier tried to reinvent itself as a funfair (a move that led pier historians to dismiss it as "really a fairground built on water").

Meanwhile the old station at Melrose – where the guard would once shout: "Alight for Abbotsford" – still stands intact but in sad isolation, shaken by the heavy lorries that run alongside on the A7 trunk road, built through the platforms after the old railway closed.

The railway closed in 1918, and never ran again.

Although most were broken up when the railway closed, several part have survived, and have been retrieved and stored by the railway preservationists.

The railway closed to freight in 1959, following the hospital's decision to convert its coal boilers to oil, which rendered the railway unnecessary.