In message , at 12:25:31
on Tue, 26 Apr 2011, remarked:
Do you mean that the trackbed had never acquired the status of a nature
trail, so apart from cyclists there's no-one that worried about it
potentially disappearing?

It was officially a railway under engineers' possession until it was
handed over to the County Council, if you remember.

There are pictures of the Ouse bridge with a tarmac path over one of the
spans (the other being derelict). So I don't think it can have been a
railway all the way. Another reason why the "use the un-ripped up old
track" issue is an oversimplification.

This at Swavesey for example: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/6784944
and a little further west: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/10391958

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Roland Perry