This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Parkland Walk is possibly the closest thing that London has to a High Line, right now. It’s on a disused railway line (including platforms at one point), it has some short elevated sections, […]
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High Lines 4. Peckham Coal Line
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Peckham Coal Line is a potential “High Line” for south London, which has a higher profile than most of the others I’m featuring inn this series, following a recent crowd-funding campaign to fund […]
High Lines 3. Millwall Viaduct
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. Before the DLR came along in the 1980s, there was an abandoned railway route (the Millwall Extension of the London & Blackwall Railway) running through the Isle of Dogs and ending on a viaduct […]
High Lines 2. The Greenway
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Greenway is an existing “High Line” in east London, however it does not follow the route of an abandoned railway line, rather it runs along the top of the Northern Outflow Sewer, one […]
High Lines 1. The East London Line Extension
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. One problem with a High Line for London is that we never had very many abandoned, elevated railways in London. The capital largely escaped the so-called Beeching cuts of the 1960s, when many rural […]
High Lines in London
London has been looking for its High Line, the elevated abandoned railway line in inner-city New York City (above) that has become a pleasant linear park, huge tourist attraction (I made a specific point of visiting on my recent trip) and regeneration stimulus in a brick-warehouses-and-cyclists part of Manhattan. Gliding peacefully above the busy traffic, […]
Book Review: The Capital Ring
The Capital Ring, by Colin Saunders, is an guide to walking the eponymous route, a 78 mile circular walk around inner London (generally Zones 3-4), one of London’s official long-distance walking trails. The book, a new (2014) edition, is presented in an attractive, compact format with rounded corners, so ideal for chucking in a bag […]
Zone 3 Orbital
London’s travel zones dictate how much your journey will cost, but their radial nature forms an interesting geography for London in general. While zones actually only apply to stations and not the space between them (the official tube map distorts distance, and you won’t see an official geographical map with zones on it), you can […]
Kelpies and the Wheel: Falkirk on the Tourist Map
Falkirk, sitting between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but not with the fame of either, isn’t on the normal tourist trail for Scotland, however it does now have two excellent attractions at each end of town – the Falkirk Wheel canal lift, which opened in 2002 at the junction of the Union and Forth & Clyde Canals […]
Olympic Park Rising
The Olympic Park in east London was a flurry of colour and activity during a few weeks in summer 2012, but since then it has been largely locked away – a parcel of land opened last year, but with a security fence, access only from certain points and at certain hours, it hasn’t really felt […]