National Trust - Castlefield Viaduct
Victorian steel railway viaduct reborn as a sky park of community gardens above the canals.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester stands you on a Victorian steel railway bridge built by the same engineers as Blackpool Tower, and asks what a structure made for trains is doing full of flowerbeds. It follows the decades the viaduct spent closed to the public while wild grasses took hold, and the National Trust's bet on a free garden that had long been called too hard to achieve. Look out for the untamed patches as you listen.
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