>>1671782It was either that route or the Hope Valley line (one of them "had" to be closed, sunk cost fallacy type situation, it was decided to save the hope valley route because of the reasons
>>1672164 gave). Closing woodhead was definitely the "better" choice.
The parts of the line from manchester to glossop/hadfield are still open to passengers and were converted to 25kv. There were plans to route the M67 along the trackbed and through the tunnel, but they never finished it, instead the motorway just stops dead and everything funnels into a single carriageway country road, which works out exactly as well as you'd expect. You can see where they started building the flyover for the roundabout on google maps, pic related
sorry for the unsolicited blog post I'm actually just really interested in this specifically
