London’s Pocket Parks: The Stage Viaduct Garden, EC2

This is a new pocket park built on top of a disused railway viaduct in the heart of Shoreditch.Known as the Kingsland Viaduct, the railway was built by the North London Railway in the 1860s to allow the railway to run into Broad Street station, next to Liverpool Street station.
However, declining traffic saw it closed in 1986, when Broad Street Station closed. In recent years, the northern half of the viaduct came back into use as the London Overground, but the southern end was left derelict. On