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Greenwood rejects bid to turn railway tunnel into cycleway

Deniz Huseyin
30 July 2025
 

A plan to turn a disused railway tunnel into a cycleway has been dismissed as too expensive by transport minister Lilian Greenwood. Campaigners had asked for the re-purposing of Queensbury Tunnel, which closed in 1956, and was part of a line linking Bradford and Halifax with a branch to Keighley.

The Government says in the interests of safety the tunnel should be permanently sealed off.

A DfT spokesperson said: “Given the continued deterioration of the Queensbury Tunnel, and in the...

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