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Rail trail

Index Rail trail

A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling. [1]

174 relations: Abandoned railway, Abbeyfeale, Abutter, Achill Island, Adirondack Scenic Railroad, Amtrak, Arkansas, Asphalt, Atlanta, Australia, Australian gold rushes, Beeching cuts, BeltLine, Beltline Trail, Bermuda, Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, British Rail, Byway (road), Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Shield, Canals of the United Kingdom, Carbonear, Catskill Mountain Railroad, Channel-Port aux Basques, Cheshire, Claremorris, Clarence, Pennsylvania, Clifden, Collooney, Confederation Trail, Connecticut, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Connecticut Department of Transportation, Conrail, Coulée verte René-Dumont, Cowboy Trail, Cycling infrastructure, Dava Way, Ebury Way, Electric power transmission, Elevated park, Elevated railway, Elroy-Sparta State Trail, England, EuroVelo, Fallowfield Loop railway line, Fenit, Forres, ..., Galway, Grade (slope), Grand Trunk Railway, Grand Union Canal, Grantown-on-Spey, Great Southern Trail, Great Victorian Rail Trail, Great Western Greenway, Greenway (landscape), Guard rail, Haliburton County, Hamilton, Bermuda, Hauraki Rail Trail, Heritage railway, High Line, High Peak Trail, Highland Railway, Hunsrück Railway, Illinois Central Railroad, Illinois Prairie Path, Katy Trail State Park, Keretapi Tanah Melayu, Kettle Valley Rail Trail, Kettle Valley Railway, Kingston, New York, Land Transport Authority, Lewisporte, Light rail, Limerick, Lindsay, Ontario, Linear park, List of former and unopened London Underground stations, List of rail trails, Little River Rail Trail, Little Rock, Arkansas, Local government in the United Kingdom, London, Long-distance trail, Manchester, Manitoba, Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States, Middlewood Way, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes redway system, Missouri, Mont-Laurier, Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail, National Arts Council, Singapore, National Cycle Network, National Cycle Route 51, National Cycle Route 6, Nebraska, New York (state), New York Central Railroad, New York Daily News, New Zealand Cycle Trail, Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland Railway, Newfoundland T'Railway, Newstalk ZB, Nordic skiing, Norfolk, North America Railway Hall of Fame, Old Forge, New York, Open space reserve, Otago Central Rail Trail, Outline of cycling, Parc Linéaire Le P'tit Train du Nord, Paris, Peak District, Penn Central Transportation Company, Pennsylvania, Pipeline transport, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Port Fairy to Warrnambool Rail Trail, Prince Edward Island Railway, R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines, Rail replacement bus service, Rail trail, Rail transport, Railroad tie, Rails with trails, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Railway Construction Act 1884, Rathkeale, Rhineland-Palatinate, Richard Beeching, Right-of-way (transportation), Rural Municipality of East St. Paul, Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg, Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Scottish Highlands, Shortline railroad, Singapore Land Authority, Snowmobile, Snowshoe, Spain, St. George's, Bermuda, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Marys, Ontario, Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Surface Transportation Board, Surveying, Sustrans, Telephone line, The New Zealand Herald, Toronto, Towpath, Tralee, Tram, Trans Canada Trail, Trestle bridge, United Kingdom, United States, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Utility, Valley Railroad (Connecticut), Victoria (Australia), Victoria Railway, West Toronto Railpath, Westport, County Mayo, Winnipeg, Wisconsin, Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line. Expand index (124 more) »

Abandoned railway

An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose.

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Abbeyfeale

Abbeyfeale is a historical market town in County Limerick, Ireland near the boundary with County Kerry.

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Abutter

An abutter is a person (or entity) whose property is adjacent to the property of another.

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Achill Island

Achill Island (Acaill, Oileán Acla) in County Mayo is the largest of the Irish isles, and is situated off the west coast of Ireland.

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Adirondack Scenic Railroad

The Adirondack Scenic Railroad (ASR) is a tourist railway located in the Adirondack Park that operates over trackage of the former New York Central Railroad between Utica and Lake Placid.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian gold rushes

During the Australian gold rushes, significant numbers of workers (both from other areas within Australia and from overseas) relocated to areas in which gold had been discovered.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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BeltLine

The BeltLine (also Beltline or Belt Line) is a former railway corridor around the core of Atlanta, Georgia, under development in stages as a multi-use trail.

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Beltline Trail

The Beltline Trail is a 9 km cycling and walking rail trail in Toronto, Ontario.

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Bermuda

Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador

Bonavista (2016 population: 3,448) is a town on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Byway (road)

A byway in the United Kingdom is a track, often rural, which is too minor to be called a road.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881.

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Canadian Shield

The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier canadien (French), is a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks (geological shield) that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent (the North American Craton or Laurentia).

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Canals of the United Kingdom

The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.

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Carbonear

Carbonear is a town in the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Catskill Mountain Railroad

The Catskill Mountain Railroad, is a heritage tourist railroad based in Kingston, New York, that began operations in 1982.

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Channel-Port aux Basques

Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Claremorris

Claremorris is a town in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, at the junction of the N17 and the N60 national routes.

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Clarence, Pennsylvania

Clarence is a census-designated place (CDP) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Clifden

Clifden (meaning "stepping stones") is a coastal town in County Galway, Ireland, in the region of Connemara, located on the Owenglin River where it flows into Clifden Bay.

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Collooney

Collooney or Coloony is a town in County Sligo, Ireland.

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Confederation Trail

Confederation Trail is the name for a 470 kilometre recreational rail trail system in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is a state agency of Connecticut.

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Connecticut Department of Transportation

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (often referred to as CTDOT or ConnDOT) is responsible for the development and operation of highways, railroads, mass transit systems, ports, waterways in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Conrail

Conrail, the Consolidated Rail Corporation,, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999, when its routes were split between the CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway.

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Coulée verte René-Dumont

The Coulée verte René-Dumont or Promenade plantée (French for tree-lined walkway) or the Coulée verte (French for green course) is a 4.7 km (2.9 mi) elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Cowboy Trail

The Cowboy Trail is a rail trail in northern Nebraska.

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Cycling infrastructure

Cycling infrastructure refers to all infrastructure which may be used by cyclists.

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Dava Way

The Dava Way is an over long-distance path that mostly follows the route of the former Highland Railway between Grantown and Forres.

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Ebury Way

The Ebury Way is a rail trail running between Rickmansworth and Watford in Hertfordshire.

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Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

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Elevated park

An elevated park (sometimes known as a sky park) refers to a park located above the normal ground (street) level.

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Elevated railway

An elevated railway (also known as an El rail, El train or simply an El for short, and, in Europe, as an overhead railway) is a rapid transit railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed of steel, concrete, or brick).

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Elroy-Sparta State Trail

The Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail is a rail trail between Elroy and Sparta, Wisconsin.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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EuroVelo

EuroVelo is a network of long-distance cycling routes (currently 14) criss-crossing Europe, in various stages of completion.

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Fallowfield Loop railway line

The Fallowfield Loop railway line was a local railway route in Greater Manchester, England.

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Fenit

Fenit is a small village in County Kerry, Ireland, located on north side of Tralee Bay about west of Tralee town, just south of the Shannon Estuary.

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Forres

Forres (Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately east of Inverness and west of Elgin.

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Galway

Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Grand Trunk Railway

The Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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Grand Union Canal

The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system.

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Grantown-on-Spey

Grantown-on-Spey (Baile nan Granndach) is a town in the Highland Council Area, historically within the county of Moray.

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Great Southern Trail

The Great Southern Trail is a greenway rail trail under development in Counties Limerick and Kerry, Ireland.

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Great Victorian Rail Trail

The Great Victorian Rail Trail (formerly Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail) is the longest rail trail in Australia, following the route of the former railway line from Tallarook, the Mansfield Railway and Alexandra Railway in north central Victoria, Australia, about north-east of Melbourne.

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Great Western Greenway

The Great Western Greenway is a greenway rail trail in County Mayo, Ireland.

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Greenway (landscape)

A greenway is "a strip of undeveloped land near an urban area, set aside for recreational use or environmental protection".

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Guard rail

Guard rail, guardrails — or railings around properties and more generally outside of North America in some uses overlaps the industrial term "guide rail".

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Haliburton County

Haliburton is a county of Ontario, Canada, known as a tourist and cottage area in Central Ontario for its scenery and for its resident artists.

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Hamilton, Bermuda

Hamilton is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.

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Hauraki Rail Trail

The Hauraki Rail Trail is one of the Great Rides of the New Zealand Cycle Trail system, using parts of the abandoned ECMT and Thames Branch railways in the Hauraki Gulf plains and the Coromandel Peninsula.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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High Line

The High Line (also known as High Line Park) is a elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.

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High Peak Trail

The High Peak Trail is a trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders in the Peak District.

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Highland Railway

The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating north of Perth railway station in Scotland and serving the farthest north of Britain.

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Hunsrück Railway

The Hunsrück Railway (Hunsrückbahn) is a partially disused railway branch line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which branches from the West Rhine Railway in Boppard and used to run as far as Simmern.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama.

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Illinois Prairie Path

The Illinois Prairie Path (often called the Prairie Path and abbreviated IPP) is a network of of bicycle trails, mostly in DuPage County, Illinois.

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Katy Trail State Park

The Katy Trail State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Missouri that contains the Katy Trail, a recreational rail trail that runs in the right-of-way of the former Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad.

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Keretapi Tanah Melayu

Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTM) (Jawi: كريتاڤي تانه ملايو برحد) or Malayan Railways Limited is the main rail operator in Peninsular Malaysia.

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Kettle Valley Rail Trail

The Kettle Valley Rail Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail located in the Okanagan-Boundary region of southern British Columbia.

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Kettle Valley Railway

The Kettle Valley Railway was a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway that operated across southern British Columbia, west of Midway running to Rock Creek, then north to Myra Canyon, down to Penticton over to Princeton, Coalmont, Brookmere, Coquihalla and finally Hope where it connected to the main CPR line..

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Kingston, New York

Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Ulster County, New York, United States.

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Land Transport Authority

The Land Transport Authority (Abbreviation: LTA; Chinese: 陆路交通管理局 (shortform: 陆交局); Malay: Penguasa Pengangkutan Darat; நிலப் போக்குவரத்து வாரியம்) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of Government of Singapore.

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Lewisporte

Lewisporte is a town in central Newfoundland Island, Canada, with a population of 3,409.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in County Limerick, Ireland.

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Lindsay, Ontario

Lindsay is a community of 20,354 people (2011 census) on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Linear park

A linear park is a park in an urban or suburban setting that is substantially longer than it is wide.

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List of former and unopened London Underground stations

The London Underground is a public rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves a large part of Greater London and the home counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

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List of rail trails

This is a list of rail trails around the world.

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Little River Rail Trail

The Little River Rail Trail is a cycling and walking track on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Local government in the United Kingdom

Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Long-distance trail

A long-distance trail (or long-distance track, path, footpath or greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas, used for non-motorized recreational walking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.

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Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States

Marvin Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a railroad right-of-way granted under the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875 is an easement.

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Middlewood Way

The Middlewood Way is an 11-mile (16 km) "linear park" in England, between Macclesfield and Rose Hill, Marple, opened on 30 May 1985 by Dr David Bellamy.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Milton Keynes redway system

The Milton Keynes redway system (locally known as Redways) is an over network of shared use paths for cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Mont-Laurier

Mont-Laurier is a town and incorporated municipality in northwest Quebec, Canada, located on the banks of the Rivière du Lièvre, a tributary of the Ottawa River.

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Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail

The Murray to Mountains Rail Trail is a cycling and walking rail trail in northern Victoria, Australia.

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National Arts Council, Singapore

The National Arts Council of Singapore (Abbreviation: NAC; Chinese: 国家艺术理事会; Malay: Majlis Kebudayaan Kebangsaan Singapura) is a statutory board established in September 1991 to oversee the development of arts in Singapore.

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National Cycle Network

The National Cycle Network (NCN) is the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom, which was established to encourage cycling throughout Britain, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring.

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National Cycle Route 51

National Cycle Route 51 is an English long distance cycle route running broadly east-west connecting Colchester and the port of Harwich to Oxford via Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Bicester, and Kidlington.

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National Cycle Route 6

Parts of the route are currently incomplete and some sections follow other routes.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New Zealand Cycle Trail

The New Zealand Cycle Trail project (Māori: Nga Haerenga, "The Journeys") is a New Zealand government initiative, co-funded together with local councils and charitable trusts, which is to build and operate a network of cycle routes through the country.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland Railway

The Newfoundland Railway was a railway which operated on the island of Newfoundland from 1898 to 1988.

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Newfoundland T'Railway

The Newfoundland T'Railway Provincial Park is a rail trail located in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newstalk ZB

Newstalk ZB is a nationwide New Zealand talk radio network operated by NZME Radio.

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Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike Alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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North America Railway Hall of Fame

North America Railway Hall of Fame (NARHF) is a not-for-profit organization housed in the recently restored Canada Southern Railway Station in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

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Old Forge, New York

Old Forge is a hamlet (and census-designated place) on New York State Route 28 in the town of Webb in Herkimer County, New York, United States.

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Open space reserve

An open space reserve (also called open space preserve, open space reservation, and green space) is an area of protected or conserved land or water on which development is indefinitely set aside.

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Otago Central Rail Trail

The Otago Central Rail Trail is a 150-kilometre walking, cycling and horse riding track in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Outline of cycling

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cycling: Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport.

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Parc Linéaire Le P'tit Train du Nord

The Parc Linéaire Le P'tit Train du Nord is a multi-use recreational rail trail located in Quebec through the Rivière du Nord valley.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Class I railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1968 until 1976.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pipeline transport

Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods or material through a pipe.

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Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

Placentia is a town located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador Canada, It consists of the "Argentia Industrial Park" and amalgamated communities of Townside, Freshwater, Dunville, and Jerseyside.

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Port Fairy to Warrnambool Rail Trail

The Port Fairy - Warrnambool Rail Trail is a 37 kilometre rail trail in southwestern Victoria, Australia.

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Prince Edward Island Railway

The Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR) was a historic Canadian railway on Prince Edward Island (PEI).

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R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines

R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines is a railroad in the R.J. Corman Railroad Group, operating a number of lines in central Pennsylvania.

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Rail replacement bus service

A rail replacement bus service uses buses to replace a passenger train service either on a temporary or permanent basis.

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Rail trail

A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Railroad tie

A railroad tie/railway tie/crosstie (North America) or railway sleeper (Britain, Ireland, South Asia, Australasia, and Africa) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks.

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Rails with trails

Rails with trails (RWT) are a small subset of rail trails in which a railway right-of-way remains in use by trains yet also has a parallel recreational trail.

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Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) is an American nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that works with communities to preserve unused rail corridors by transforming them into rail trails within the United States of America.

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Railway Construction Act 1884

The Victorian Government's Act No.

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Rathkeale

Rathkeale is a town in west County Limerick, in Ireland.

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of the 16 states (Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Richard Beeching

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Conservative Party in Britain.

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Right-of-way (transportation)

A right-of-way (ROW) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land.

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Rural Municipality of East St. Paul

East St.

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Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg

The Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg is a cyclable trail.

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Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

Saint-Jérôme (2011 Population 68,456), located about northwest of Montreal on the Rivière du Nord.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Shortline railroad

A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks.

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Singapore Land Authority

The Singapore Land Authority (Abbreviation: SLA; Chinese: 新加坡土地管理局; Malay: Penguasa Tanah Singapura) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law of the Singapore Government.

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Snowmobile

A snowmobile, also known as a motor sled, motor sledge, or snowmachine, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.

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Snowshoe

A snowshoe is footwear for walking over snow.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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St. George's, Bermuda

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St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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St. Marys, Ontario

St.

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Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

Stephenville (Canada 2011 Census population 6,719) is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland.

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Surface Transportation Board

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Sustrans

Sustrans is a UK sustainable transport charity.

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Telephone line

A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit within the industry) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Towpath

A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway.

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Tralee

Tralee is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Trans Canada Trail

The Great Trail, formerly known as Trans Canada Trail, is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans.

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Trestle bridge

A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used both as stools and to support tables at banquets.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urban Redevelopment Authority

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (Abbreviation: URA; Chinese: 市区重建局; Malay: Lembaga Pembangunan Semula Bandar) is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development of the Singapore Government.

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Utility

Within economics the concept of utility is used to model worth or value, but its usage has evolved significantly over time.

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Valley Railroad (Connecticut)

The Valley Railroad is a heritage railroad based in Connecticut on tracks of the Connecticut Valley Railroad which was founded in 1868.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria Railway

The Victoria Railway is a historic long Canadian railway that operated in Central Ontario.

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West Toronto Railpath

The West Toronto Railpath is a multi-use asphalt trail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, running from The Junction neighbourhood toward downtown Toronto.

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Westport, County Mayo

Westport (historically anglicised as Cahernamart) is a town in County Mayo in Ireland.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line

The Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line was a railway branch line in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom running from Wolverton on the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) (today's West Coast Main Line) to Newport Pagnell.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_trail

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