Kingsland Viaduct

The Kingsland Viaduct is a two mile stretch of Victorian engineering that physically elevated the railway above the densely packed streets of East London in the eighteen sixties. To build this massive brick structure, the North London Railway displaced four thousand five hundred people from their homes. It functioned as a vital artery for commuters heading into the City of London, specifically designed to bypass the street level congestion that once defined this part of the city. At its peak in the late nineteenth century, this line was so heavily used that it carried tens of millions of passengers annually.