Imaginary Lines

The town near my home was designated for London overspill in the late fifties, hundreds of houses were built, thousands of people rehoused and businesses relocated from London.
At the time the town had three railway lines, one to the northwest to Cambridge, one south to Braintree and Chelmsford (the Colne Valley Line) and one south east via Sudbury to Colchester (the Stour Valley Line through Constable Country).
Within a decade of the relocation plan all the lines were shut down, the last train ran from Cambridge in 1965.
All that is left is the occassional railway footprint, an embankment and bridge with no deck, a level crossing in the middle of nowhere or a straight level track between trees.
There's lots of talk about guided busways and light railways but nothing will ever happen, there's neither the money nor the grit needed to build railways again.
All we are left with are the imaginary lines......