The Holbeck Viaduct: Leeds' Most Important Unused Asset
A 2026 editorial on The Burnham Programme website arguing for government funding to bring the Holbeck Viaduct into use alongside the Elland Road expansion.
Webpage · 2026Sources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
What the editorial says and who wrote it.
- The Burnham Programme: The Holbeck Viaduct
Published 26 July 2026 as an editorial; 92 brick arches, 1.7 km from near Leeds City Station to Gelderd Road near Elland Road; built 1882; last train 1983; Holbeck Viaduct Project campaigning since 2013; calls for a funding commitment from West Yorkshire Combined Authority or central government.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The editorial is the site's own argument, not a statement by the Holbeck Viaduct Project. The essay's 'campaigners now want' attributes it to campaigners.
- It names WYCA or central government as possible funders; the essay names WYCA only.
- Who operates The Burnham Programme website was not established from its about, contact or privacy pages; no Organisation record was created.
- It gives the last train as 1983; Wikipedia gives 11 October 1987, and Wikidata gives 2016 as the founding year of the campaign rather than 2013.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Linked in the essay as what campaigners now want. See Holbeck Viaduct.
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