The Woodhead railway line crossed high Pennine moorland, burrowing through tunnels over 3 1/2 miles long on route. Linking major cities of northern England, intermediate stations were too remote to pay, and the line lived out its later years as a coal to power station shuttle. This ended with mine closures in the 1980s and the track bed has been converted to leisure use.
After WW2 the line was electrified to 1500v DC, an anomaly in British standards, and lasted barely three decades before being torn up. Silence is interrupted by the cry of curlew and grouse and it's impossible to imagine lines of coal wagons crossing the same place.
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