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]
Europe
Austria
A more complete reference can be found at www.bahntrassenradeln.de.[2]
Lower Austria
Upper Austria
Salzburg
Styria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
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:
The Bahnradweg Hessen with a total length of 250 kilometres (160 mi) following old tracks of the Vogelsbergbahn , Vogelsberger Südbahn, Biebertalbahn and Ulstertalbahn.
The Bockl-Radweg in Bavaria with a total length of 45 km on the old track, from Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab to Eslarn
The Maare-Mosel-Radweg with 39 kilometres (24 mi) on the old rail track
The Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg with 44 kilometres (27 mi) on the old rail track
The Schinderhannes-Radweg with 36 kilometres (22 mi) on the old track of the Hunsrück Railway
The Vennbahn [7] trail is a cross-border trail between Germany, Belgium und Luxembourg, which follows the route of the former Vennbahn railway line for approximately 130 kilometres (81 mi) from the city of Aachen through the High Fens – Eifel Nature Park and the Ardennes to Troisvierges
The Nordbahntrasse[8] trail crosses for 23 km the city of Wuppertal , and has so far one of the highest standards of rail trails in Germany.
Hungary
Ireland
In planning/under construction
Isle of Man
Luxembourg
Prince Henri railway in Clemency , converted into a cycle track
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Ecopista do Rio Minho
Ecovia do Rio Lima
Ecopista do Tâmega
Ecopista do Dão
Slovenia
Spain
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.
Sweden
Banvallsleden[14] (~ 150 km/93 miles)
Sjuhäradsrundan Borås to Ulricehamn(45 km/27 miles)
Ätradalsleden Falköping to Ambjörnarp (93 km/ 55 miles)
United Kingdom
England
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)
The 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 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 Fort Brockhurst: 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)
Hellingly Hospital Railway , a branch of the Cuckoo Trail
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
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
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
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)
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Ayr to Greenan: Ayrshire
Ballachulish to North Connel (sections now National Cycle Route no. 78)
Corstorphine to Balgreen: Edinburgh
Dava Way Forres to Grantown-on-Spey (24 miles)
Deeside Way Aberdeen to Ballater (41 miles)
Devon Way Dollar to Tillicoultry (3.25 miles)
Elgin to Lossiemouth
Formartine and Buchan Way Dyce to Fraserburgh and Peterhead (53 miles)
Haddington to Longniddry Railway Walk
Hillend Loch Railway Path (15 miles)[15] Airdrie to Bathgate (14 miles)
Hopeman to Burghead
Innocent Railway Cycle Path Edinburgh (Newington) to Brunstane (81 ⁄4 miles)
Old Fordell Train Line Trail: Cowdenbeath (5 miles)
Paisley & Clyde railway path
Pencaitland Railway Walk, East Lothian (6.5 miles)
Rob Roy Way Callander to Killin
Speyside Way Craigellachie to Grantown-on-Spey (31 miles)
Strathkelvin Railway Path Gartcosh to Strathblane (6 miles)
Tweed Valley Railway Path Peebles to Inverleithen (5 miles)
Water of Leith Walkway Edinburgh to Balerno (5.25 miles)
Wales
Jersey
In planning/under construction
Oceania
Australia
Rails trails of significant length in Australia include:
New Zealand
Pipeline trails
Trails similar to rail trails can follow other infrastructure, such as water pipelines.