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Charity offers EdenValley line to council for leasing

RAILWAY Paths Ltd has offered its section of the Appleby-Warcop line to the local council – in the hope that it could be reopened by the Eden Valley Railway.

RPL, a charity formed in 1998, owns just over 200 miles of disused railway trackbeds that were transferred to it from the British Rail Residuary Board after the privatisation of the national network. Of these, approximately 180 miles have been converted into cyclepaths,

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