HC Deb 05 March 1981 vol 1000 c195W
Mr. Snape

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of railway track, now no longer used for passenger or freight services by British Railways, remain intact and potentially re-usable for railway services.

Mr. Fowler

Neither my Department nor the Railways Board holds this information, but it is the board's usual practice to lift track as soon as services are discontinued.