List of never used railways

This list of never used railways and railway infrastructure comprises as following:

Railways

Financial problems

Australia

• Queensland Railways, Cooktown - Laura railway, Laura River Bridge - test train only

France

• Bussang Pass Line - approximately 50% of 8,287 m tunnel completed, work abandoned 1935^[1]

• Corsica
  • Caldaniccis - Propriano
  • Porto-Vecchio - Bonifacio

Spain

• Engaña Tunnel and railway

United Kingdom

• Manchester and Milford Railway - Llangurig branch
• Tadcaster to Church Fenton-started 1846 abandoned 1849
• Newport Pagnall to Olney- started 1865 abandoned 1866

Greece

• Kalambaka - Kozani - Veria line; approximately 65% of 117 km between Kalambaka and Kozani completed, work abandoned due to financial crisis (July 1932)
• Thessaloniki - Tsagezi line; less than 5% of about 150 km completed, work abandoned due to World War II (1940)

Political reasons

United Kingdom

• Ouse Valley Railway, 1866 - construction abandoned for political reasons

For future needs

Australia

• Central railway station, Sydney, platforms 26 and 27.
• St James railway station, Sydney, platforms 2 and 3.
• North Sydney railway station, flying junction tunnel for never built line to Manly.

• Wynyard platforms 1 and 2 to North Sydney never used for rail, used for trams, then converted to car parking use.
• North Sydney to Chatswood four-tracking, partially built never used.

• Redfern to Sydenham six-tracking, partially built, never completed.

Changed plans

Australia

• Normanton - Croydon Railway - original destination was Cloncurry
• between Campsie and Belmore earthworks for a triangle from Enfield were built but never used due to change in plans.

Partially built

Africa

• Kassala, Sudan - Teseney, Eritrea - never finished (1930s)

Australia

• Gulgong to Maryvale section of Sandy Hollow - Maryvale railway
• Casino to Bonalbo - construction abandoned in 1930s.
• Guyra to Dorrigo - construction abandoned in 1950s.

United Kingdom

• Bishops Castle Railway - line linking Mid-Wales and Shrewsbury never completed due to financial problems.
• Maidstone West to Tovil section of the Headcorn & Maidstone Junction Light Railway
• Rolvenden to Tenterden Town section of the Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway
• Chessington South to Leatherhead- construction abandoned in 1939
• Edgware to Bushey Heath extension of London Underground Northern Line. Work started 1938, suspended 1940 due to wartme and then officially abandoned 1953.

United States

• Pennsylvania & Newark Railroad - a freight cutoff of the Pennsylvania Railroad from Morrisville, Pennsylvania to Newark, New Jersey. Construction suspended 1916
• South Pennsylvania Railroad - construction ceased 1885; many tunnels reused for Pennsylvania Turnpike
• Southern New England Railway from Palmer, Massachusetts to Providence, Rhode Island - construction abandoned in 1914

Temporary use such as military

Australia

• During World War II a number of extra crossing loops were built between Werris Creek and Wallangarra, but were not brought into use.
• During World War II triangle junctions were built at Griffith, Stockinbingal, which were removed soon after the war. A triangle at Goobang Junction near Parkes from west to south was only partly built. It was finally completed around 2000.

Interrupted for decades

Australia The Sandy Hollow - Maryvale railway was commenced in the 1930s, when construction was suspended for decades. The section from Sandy Hollow to Gulgong was completed in the 1980s.

Interrupted by war

Germany

• Work suspend on duplication and extension of Freilassing–Berchtesgaden railway.

Built as part of other schemes

• Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Infrastructure

• Overbridge on A4085.
• Ahr Valley Tunnel
• GWR Atmospheric Railway - a fiasco and abandoned.

See also

• Duplication - Never Used
• Try searching for never used railway.
• Try searching for incomplete railway.

References