Just south of the Wellington Place development (see yesterday), what's left of the disused railway viaduct has recently been reopened as a pedestrian walkway and urban garden, linking the office development with residential areas south of the river.
The grade two-listed Monk Bridge Viaduct was built around 1846 as part of the new railway network being constructed in the Wellington Street area of Leeds. It became an important part of Leeds Central Station which was completed in 1857, carrying high level lines to the station and connecting to the lifting tower which still stands on the Wellington Place development today.
It still spans the Leeds-Liverpool Canal as that winds its way into the city:
as well as the River Aire which runs alongside the canal:
The old trackway has been made into an urban park, quite attractive though I'm not sure I'd want to be wandering around there at dusk.
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