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Seconded, looks very nice, they have done a good job on it. These are not a new thing however, they have been quite common for 100 years or so. When mineral rail lines in nice areas would close - think of some of the lines that ran on N Yorks moors, Yorkshire dales, lead mines Allendale way and a lot similar across the rest of the country, plus branches that were private for certain enterprises and factories - portions of land with land with rail on would be sold off to people who wanted to put cars on them to have as holiday homes.

It was only with full nationalisation in 1948 that the practice died down / out as a nationalised company could send men to pull up rail that could be recycled - although we were still steel rationing / shortages, they would have made more money and could have bought steel in by selling rail for people to put carriages on.

It would have had the added benefit of maintaining the track bed in a lot of areas, should it be decided that a line is needed in the area again.

Trains and buses lend themselves quite well to being used as accommodation.