London’s answer to New York’s High Line is scrapped

The Camden Highline, a multimillion-pound effort to transform a disused rail line into a greenery-filled walking and cycling paradise, has been all but scrapped. Nearly a decade since it was conceived as London’s answer to New York’s fabled High Line, the project has fallen victim to high costs and the energy crisis. The scheme’s organisers said: “The team was built around the ambition to transform a disused railway viaduct into a new local park, garden walk and wildlife corridor. However, over the last five years, the UK has experienced a series of sustained economic shocks, with construction costs in particular rising well above general inflation. Until now, these pressures have been factored into the project’s modelling, but the emerging 2026 energy shock represents a further step change.” The statement said the project would be “pausing with immediate effect”. The Camden Highline route The Camden Highline route The Camden Highline was intended to run almost a mile of elevated rail track from Camden to King’s Cross, with landscaping to encourage walking and cycling and planting to attract butterflies, bees and birds. The route would have passed Camden Road overground station and finished at York Way in King’s Cross. It was first suggested after the success of the New York High Line, which has been credited with revitalising postindustrial neighbourhoods on Manhattan’s west side and was itself inspired by the Coulée Verte elevated park in Paris. …