Walking the Northern Heights

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https://trainstobeyond.com/2021/05/26/2021-uk-walking-the-northern-heights/

A new post about walking over parts of the 1935-40 LPTB Northern Heights plan. Any comments really welcome.

 

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https://trainstobeyond.com/2021/05/26/2021-uk-walking-the-northern-heights/

A new post about walking over parts of the 1935-40 LPTB Northern Heights plan. Any comments really welcome.

Really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. Especially appreciated the inclusion of maps and diagrams for some clear context. I think the only suggestion improvement would be for the images to be clickable for actual size though not sure from here whether your platform allows for that?

 

[tbwbear]

Thanks so much for the feedback. I will certainly consider the clickable images idea in future.

 

[45669]

The line from Moorgate to Finsbury Park has always interested me and I've visited it once or twice. You might therefore be interested in the following pictures:

R1345. Drayton Park. 11th Apil, 1964.

1964/04/11.R1345. Drayton Park on the Great Northern & City line between Finsbury Park and Moorgate. A train of pre-1936 tube stock is on a Moorgate working. 11th April, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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R1346 Pre 36 stock D Park 11Apr1964

1964/04/11.R1346. Pre-1936 tube stock outside the Drayton Park car sheds on the 11th April, 1964. Many years later, I was to be involved with lifting the track from the car-sheds and yard at Drayton Park. It was in very good condition and was purchased by the Ffestiniog Railway for further...

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R1347. Drayton Park. 11th April 1964.

1964/04/11.R1347. London Transport and British Railways rolling stock at Drayton Park. The pre-1936 tube stock is in the yard of the Drayton Park car sheds and the B.R. suburban compartment stock at the higher level is outside Finsbury Park. 11th April, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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R1348 Drayton Pk 11Apr1964

1964/04/11.R1348. Drayton Park on London Transport's Great Northern & City Line is in the open. It is the first station from the underground northern terminus at Finsbury Park, the line itself running to The City at Moorgate. Pre-1936 tube stock was still in use on the line in the 1960s and, in...

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R1349 Pre 36 interior 11Apr1964

1964/04/11.R1349. An interior view of a pre-1936 London Transport tube train on the Great Northern & City Line. 11th April, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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R1350 Pre 36 interior 11Apr1964

1964/04/11.R1350. London tube train drivers could earn £15.18s.1d. back in 1964. An interior view of pre-1936 tube stock on the Great Northern & City Line. 11th April, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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R1351 Pre 36 interior 11Apr1964

1964/04/11.R1351. Looking back down the car in a pre-1936 London Transport tube train on the Great Northern & City Line. 11th April, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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R1352. Finsbury Park GN&C Line station. 11th April, 1964.

1964/04/11.R1352. The northern terminus of the London Transport Great Northern & City Line at Finsbury Park. This line was originally built for normal sized trains and this is clearly demonstrated by the small size of the deep level tube stock. 11th April, 1964. This platform is now used...

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R1353. Highbury & Islington GN&C Line station. 11th April,1964.

1964/04/11.R1353. The London Transport pre-1936 deep level tube stock is almost dwarfed by the full size tunnel of the Great Northern & City Line. Highbury & Islington station, 11th April, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.

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Ron.

 

[45669]

I had another involvement with Drayton Park in 1977 when the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales bought the redundant rail in the London Transport car sheds. The London Area Group of the Ffestiniog Railway Society were asked to lift the track and load it onto a waggon for onward transportation to the FR; this short video shows how we did it:

Ron.

 

[tbwbear]

The line from Moorgate to Finsbury Park has always interested me and I've visited it once or twice. You might therefore be interested in the following pictures:

Ron.

Really Magic stuff !
thanks for sharing !

There is certainly something special about Drayton Park...