This is a list of rail trails around the world longer than 0.1 miles (160 metres). Rail trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian , bicycle , skating , equestrian , and/or light motorized traffic. Most are multiuse trails offering at least pedestrians and cyclists recreational access and right-of-way to the routes.[ 1]
The Jerusalem Railway Park
Dongfeng Bicycle Green Way
Hou-Fong bike path
Tanya Shen Green Bikeway
Taolin Bikeway
A more complete reference can be found at www.bahntrassenradeln.de.[ 2]
Main article : Voies vertes et chemins sur anciennes voies ferrées en France [fr ]
France has rail trails with a total length of 6,800 kilometres (4,200 mi) (as at September 2024). More projects are being planned or under construction. These are some of rail trails in France :
Germany has 613 rail trails with a total length of 4,400 kilometres (2,700 mi) (as at September 2013). 80 more projects are being planned or under construction. These are some of the longest rail trails in Germany:
In planning/under construction[ edit ]
Prince Henri railway in Clemency , converted into a cycle track
Ecopista do Rio Minho
Ecovia do Rio Lima
Ecopista do Tâmega
Ecopista do Dão
Senda del oso , Asturias
Vía Verde de la Sierra (mountain's rail track), Cádiz and Seville
Vía Verde de la Sierra de la Demanda , Burgos
Vía Verde de Ojos Negros , Valencia and Teruel
GIRONA - NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY ROUTE I - This 57-km route crosses three regions and twelve towns, following the valleys of the Fluvià, Brugent and Ter rivers. The Narrow-Gauge Railway Route descends smoothly from Olot (440 m) to Girona (70 m).
GIRONA - NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY ROUTE II - The Narrow-Gauge Railway Route stretches out 39.7 km. With a smooth incline from Girona to Sant Feliu de Guíxols (15 m), its highest point is at Cassà de la Selva (136 m). Following the old narrow-gauge railway line from Girona to Sant Feliu, you can get to know two of Girona's regions - the Gironès and the Baix Empordà - from the Ter River basin, crossing the Selva depression and ending in the Ridaura valley.
Banvallsleden[ 14] (~ 150 km/93 miles)
Sjuhäradsrundan Borås to Ulricehamn(45 km/27 miles)
Ätradalsleden Falköping to Ambjörnarp (93 km/ 55 miles)
Addiscombe Railway Park : Addiscombe to Woodside, South London (0.6 miles)
Alban Way : St Albans to Hatfield, Hertfordshire (7.5 miles)
Angel Walk : Edmonton, North London (0.2 miles)
Ashchurch to Tewkesbury : Gloucestershire (approx.1 mile)
Auckland Way : Spennymoor to Bishop Auckland, Co.Durham (4.3 miles)
Ayot Greenway : Ayot St Peter to Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire (3 miles)
Beckton Corridor : Beckton DLR station to Connaught Bridge, East London (0.5 miles)
Bedford to Sandy : Bedfordshire
Belmont Trail : Stanmore to Harrow, North West London (2.2 miles)
Bembridge to Brading : Isle of Wight
Bermondsey-Stubbs Drive to Surrey Canal Road : South London (0.5 miles approx)
Bingham Linear Park : Nottinghamshire (2 miles)
Blackwater Rail Trail : Witham to Maldon, Essex (8 miles)
Bowes Railway Path : Jarrow to Tanfield Railway Museum, Tyne and Wear (11.5 miles)
Bradley Fold Cycleway : Bolton to Bury, Lancashire
Brampton Valley Way , Northampton to Market Harborough Railway, Northamptonshire (14 miles)
Brandon to Bishop Auckland Railway Path Broompark to Bishop Auckland, Co.Durham (9 miles)
Bridport to West Bay : Dorset (approx 1 mile)
Bristol and Bath Railway Path (13 miles)
Bubwith Rail Trail : Bubwith to Market Weighton, Yorkshire (8 miles)
Buckingham Railway Walk : Buckinghamshire (1 mile)
Bungay : Suffolk (1 mile)
Bure Valley Railway : Wroxham to Aylsham, Norfolk (9 miles)
Camel Trail :[ 15] Padstow to Wenford Bridge, Cornwall (17.3 miles)
Castle Eden Walkway : Castle Eden to Thorpe Thewles, Co.Durham (9 miles)
Castleman Trailway : Ringwood to Upton Country Park, Hampshire (16 miles)
Centurion Way : Chichester to West Dean, West Sussex (5 miles)
Chedworth Nature Reserve : Cheltenham to Cirencester line, Gloucestershire
Chippenham to Calne Railway Path : Chippenham to Calne, Wiltshire (6 miles)
Chiseldon to Marlborough Railway Path , Wiltshire (7.3 miles)
The Cinder Track : Scarborough to Whitby, North Yorkshire (21 miles)
Cloud Trail : Worthington to Chellaston (part of National Cycle Route no. 6) Leicestershire/Derbyshire
Cole Green Way , Welwyn Garden City to Hertford, Hertfordshire (6 miles)
Consett and Sunderland Railway Path : Co. Durham (24 miles)
Cotgrave Country Park : Nottinghamshire (2 miles)
Cotmanhay Linear Park : Derbyshire (0.4 miles)
Crab and Winkle Line : part of Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, Kent (8 miles)
Cuckoo Trail :[ 15] Hampden Park to Heathfield, East Sussex (14 miles)
Deerness Valley Way : Broompark to Crook, Co.Durham
Delph Donkey Trail : Delph to Moorgate, Greater Manchester.
Derwent Walk : Consett to Swalwell, Co.Durham (12 miles)
Dousland to Princetown Railway Track : Devon (8 miles)
Downs Link : Guildford to Christs Hospital, Steyning and Shoreham-by-Sea, Surrey/West Sussex (36.7 miles)
Drakes Trail : Plymouth to Tavistock, Devon (21 miles)
Dyke Railway Trail : Hangleton to Brighton & Hove Golf Club, East Sussex (1.25 miles)
Ebury Way Cycle Path : Rickmansworth to Watford, Hertfordshire (3.5 miles)
Eling Way : Hermitage to Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire (2 miles)
Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton : Devon (4 miles)
Fallowfield Loop , Fairfield to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester (8 miles)
Five Pits Trail : Grassmoor to Tibshelf, Derbyshire (5.5 miles)
Flitch Way : Bishops Stortford to Braintree, Essex (18 miles)
Forest Way : East Grinstead to Groombridge, East/West Sussex (10 miles)
Freshwater to Yarmouth : Isle of Wight
Garstang and Knot-End Railway : The Fylde, Lancashire (1 mile)
Goathland to Grosmont , along original Whitby and Pickering Railway alignment
Gorleston-on-sea : Norfolk (0.5 miles approx.)
Gosport to Stokes Bay : Hampshire (0.75 miles approx)
Gosport to Fareham : Hampshire (2 miles approx)
The Granite Way , Okehampton to Lydford, Devon (11 miles)[ 16]
The Great Central Walk- Leicester : Braunstone Gate to Glenhills, Leicestershire (4.5 miles)
The Great Central Walk- Rugby : Rugby to Brownsover, Warwickshire (4.5 miles)
The Great Eastern Linear Park : Lowestoft, Suffolk (1.5 miles)
The Great Northern railway Trail Cullingworth to Queensbury in West Yorkshire[ 17]
Hadleigh Railway Walk : Hadleigh to Raydon Wood, Suffolk (2 miles)
Hamble Rail Trail : Hamble to Southampton Water, Hampshire (4.5 miles)
Harborne Walkway : Birmingham to Harborne, West Midlands (2.4 miles)
Hart to Haswell Walkway : Monk Hesledon to Hart, Co.Durham.
Haverhill, Suffolk (1.5 miles)
Hawthorn to Ryhope Way : Seaton to South Hetton, Co.Durham
Hayfield to New Mills : Derbyshire (3 miles)
Hayling Billy Trail :[ 18] Havant to South Hayling, Hampshire (5 miles)
High Peak :[ 15] Hurdlow to Cromford, Derbyshire (17 miles)
Hincaster Trailway : Hincaster to Arnside, Cumbria
Honeybourne Line Walk : Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire
Hornsea Rail Trail : Hull to Hornsea, East Yorkshire (26 miles)
Hudson Way : Market Weighton to Beverley, East Yorkshire (10 miles)
Hull to Winestead Rail Trail : East Yorkshire (20 miles)
Hurworth Burn to Station Town Railway Path : Hurworth Burn to Wingate, Co. Durham (1.8 miles)
Isabel Trail : Stafford, Staffordshire (1.5 miles)
Kelloe Way , Kelloe, Co.Durham (1.3 miles)
Kenilworth Greenway Linear Park, Warwickshire (4 miles)
Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Path , Cumbria (6 miles)
Killamarsh to Renishaw part of the Trans Pennine Trail : Derbyshire
Kirklees Trail : Bury to Greenmount, Lancashire.
Lakenham Way : Norwich, Norfolk (approx 1 mile)
Lancaster to Caton : Lancashire (6 miles)
Lancaster to Morecambe : Lancashire
Lanchester Valley Railway Path : Durham to Consett, County Durham (12 miles)
Lavenham to Long Melford railway walk : Suffolk (4.5 miles)
Ledbury Town Trail: Ledbury, Herefordshire (1.6 miles)
Leicester to Ratby : Leicestershire
The Lines Way Garforth to Allerton Bywater, Yorkshire (4 miles)
Liss to Liss Forest Road : Hampshire (1 mile approx.)
Longdendale Trail : Hadfield to Woodhead, Derbyshire (6.5 miles)
Lune Estuary Path : Lancaster to Glasson Dock, Lancashire
Manifold Way : Hulme End to Waterhouses, Staffordshire (8 miles)
Marriott's Way : Norwich to Aylsham, Norfolk (25 miles)
Meon Valley Railway Line : West Meon to Knowle Junction, Hampshire (11 miles)
Mercian Way : Ironbridge to near Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Merton Park Green Walks : Merton Park to South Wimbledon (0.1 mile)
Meltham Greenway : Meltham, Yorkshire (0.8mls)
Middlewood Way : Macclesfield to Marple, Cheshire (10 miles)
Millennium Greenway : Mickle Trafford, Chester, Cheshire to Connahs Quay, Flintshire (10 miles)
Milton Keynes redway system : former Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line , Buckinghamshire
Mineral Tramway Trails : mid West Cornwall
Monsal Trail : Topley Pike to Bakewell, Derbyshire (8.5 miles);
Nailsworth to Stonehouse : Gloucestershire (3 miles)
Newark Northgate to Bottesford ; Nottinghamshire (4.8 miles)
Newport to Wootton : Isle of Wight
Nickey line : Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire (8.6 miles)
Nidderdale Greenway : Harrogate to Ripley, North Yorkshire (4 miles):[ 19]
North Dorset Trailway : Spetisbury to Sturminster Newton (14 miles)
North Liverpool Extension Line : Merseyside
Offchurch Greenway : Leamington to Rugby, Warwickshire (1.5 miles)
Onny Trail : Craven Arms to Horderley, Shropshire
Outwood Trail : Prestwich to Radcliffe, Greater Manchester (2.6 miles)
Padiham Greenway : Lancashire (2 miles)
Parkend to Cinderford : Gloucestershire
Parkland Walk : Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace, London (3.1 miles)
Pegasus Way : Okehampton to Halwill, Devon
Pentewan Trail : St Austell to Pentewan, Cornwall (8 miles)
Perry Way : part of Stafford- Wellington line, Shropshire (3 miles)
Phoenix Trail : Thame, Oxfordshire to Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire (7 miles)
Pittington Way : Pittington to Hetton-le-hole, Co.Durham (0.9 miles)
Plym Valley Cycle Trail : Clearbrook to Marsh Mills, Devon (7 miles)
Preston to Bamber Bridge : Lancashire
Preston to Grimsagh : Lancashire
Princetown Railway Walk : Princetown to Dousland, Devon
Raisby Way : Trimdon to Coxhoe, Co.Durham (1.6 miles)
Radstock to Frome : Somerset
Rea Brook Way : Shrewsbury, Shropshire.(1 mile approx.)
Red Squirrel Trail : Cowes to Sandown, Isle Of Wight (14 miles)
Red Squirrel Trail : Shanklin to Wroxall, Isle of Wight
Ripley Greenway : Ripley, Derbyshire (2 miles)
Rodwell Trail : Weymouth to Wyke Regis, Dorset (2 miles)
Roe Green Loop : Roe Green to Monton, Lancashire
Rowthorne Trail : Bolsover to Pleasley Colliery, Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire.
Sandringham Railway Path : King's Lynn (Tennyson Avenue to A1078), Norfolk (1.7 miles)
Scarborough & Whitby RailTrail , North Yorkshire
Sett Valley Trail : Hayfield to New Mills, Derbyshire (2.5 miles)
Parts of the Severn and Wye Railway : Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Sewell Cutting Nature Reserve : Stanbridgeford to Dunstable, Bedfordshire (2.2 miles)
Shanklin to Wroxall : Isle of Wight
Sherburn Way : Sherburn Hill, Co.Durham (1.4 miles)
Silkin Way : Malins Lee to Coalport (Ironbridge), Shropshire
Skegby Trail : Sutton-in-Ashfield to Pleasley Colliery, Nottinghamshire (5 miles)
Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway : Lancashire
South Staffordshire Railway Walk : Castlecroft to Wall Heath (5.5 miles)
South Tyne Trail : Haltwhistle to Alston: Northumberland/Cumbria (13 miles)
Southwell Trail : Southwell to Bilsthorpe: Nottinghamshire (7.5 miles)
Spa Trail and Viking Way : Horncastle to Woodhall Spa (4.8 miles)
Spen Valley Greenway [ 20] Oakenshaw to Dewsbury , West Yorkshire (7 miles)
Stockley Trail : Bolsover, Derbyshire (2 miles)
Stratford Greenway : Stratford-upon-Avon to Long Marston, Warwickshire (4.5 miles)
Stroud to Dudbridge : Gloucestershire
Strawberry Line Trail : Yatton railway station to Cheddar , Somerset
Parts of the Tarka Trail : Braunton to Meeth, North Devon (31 miles)
Sudbury to Long Melford : Suffolk (3 miles)
Swindon to Rushey Platt : Wiltshire
Tees Railway Path : Middleton-in-Teesdale to Cotherstone, Co.Durham (5.5 miles)
Tenterden-The Old Railway Path : Tenterden to St. Michaels, Kent (approx 1 mile)
Testway : Stonymarsh to Stockbridge, Hampshire (5 miles)
Tetbury Trail : Tetbury to Trouble House (2 miles approx.), Gloucestershire
Teversal Trail : Ashfield to Pleasley Colliery, Nottinghamshire.
Thornhill Trail : Bamford, Derbyshire (2 miles)
Tissington Trail : Parsley Hay (High Peak Trail ) to Ashbourne, Derbyshire (13 miles)[ 15]
Trans Pennine Trail : Hadfield to Stocksbridge, Derbyshire/South Yorkshire
also Latchford to Broadheath, Cheshire
Two Tunnels Greenway (3.5 miles & Colliers Way (2.5 miles): Bath to Wellow
Tyne Riverside Country Park : Newcastle to Wylam (4 miles)
Varsity Way : Bedford to Sandy, Bedfordshire
Walker Riverside Park : St.Peters to Carville, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
Waskerley Way : Consett to Stanhope, Co.Durham (9.7 miles)
Water Rail Way : Lincoln to Boston (33 miles)
Weavers Way : Bengate to Stalham, Norfolk (4.5 miles)
Weavers Way : North Walsham to Aylsham (4.5 miles)
West Auckland to Ramshaw : Co.Durham
West Bridgford Green Line : Nottinghamshire
Wetherby to Thorp Arch : Yorkshire
Wetherby to Spofforth : Yorkshire
Whitegate Way : Winsford to Cuddington, Cheshire (6 miles)
Whitehaven to Ennerdale Cyclepath : Cumbria (10 miles)
Wirral Way : West Kirby, Merseyside to Hooton, Cheshire (13 miles)
Worth Way : Three Bridges to East Grinstead, West Sussex (7 miles)
Wray Valley Trail : Moretonhampstead to Bovey, Devon (7 miles)
Wye Valley Greenway : Chepstow to Tintern, Gloucestershire (5 miles)
Yeovil Country Park : Yeovil Pen Mill to Hendford, Somerset.(1.5 miles)
York to Osbaldwick : Yorkshire
York to Riccall Railway Path : Yorkshire (14 miles)
In planning/under construction[ edit ]
Rails trails of significant length in Australia include:
Trails similar to rail trails can follow other infrastructure, such as water pipelines.