Holbeck Viaduct, Leeds
A disused Victorian railway viaduct in Leeds that a community group has campaigned to reopen as a green walking and cycling route.
Case studySources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Physical description, disuse and campaign history.
- Wikipedia: Holbeck Viaduct Project
92 archways, 1.1 miles (1.7 km), from Leeds station past Elland Road; built 1882; last scheduled train 11 October 1987.
- The Burnham Programme: The Holbeck Viaduct
92 brick arches; 1.7 km; last train 1983; campaign since 2013; no single funding commitment to delivery.
- Wikidata: Holbeck Viaduct Project
Gives 2016 as the project's inception.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Sources disagree on the year of the last train (1983 or 1987) and on when the campaign began (2013 or 2016); start_year is marked contested.
- The campaign group's own website was not consulted.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Examined in the essay as infrastructure waiting for a second life. The essay's statement of what campaigners want comes from an editorial on The Burnham Programme website rather than from the campaign group; see the essay record.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
Read the essay
Sources
Organisations
- West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Influenced by
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/cases/gb-holbeck-viaduct.md
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