At Caledonian Road & Barnesbury a significant reconstruction has been
undertaken with new electrification, new tracks and a revamped station
including new bridge, lifts and stairs. All to the Network Rail modular
design which looks over engineered, cheap and horrible.

Didn't go that far - even if it's not so nice, I'll have to take a trip
up to see it as it's obviously changed dramatically.

At Highbury and Islington the scale of change is quite breathtaking. I
couldn't quite believe my eyes when I stepped off a NLL train. The NLL
platforms are larger and more substantial than I imagined.

Completely agree. I was mightily impressed with what was there. Loads of
space. Obviously, it will look even better once the south side is
completed. The only pain I had was that it finally put paid to any idea
that the "Old Highbury and Islington" entrance won't ever be re-opened. I
seem to remember some time back that abandonedstations.co.uk claimed it
was going to be re-opened when the ELL came up to H&I, and while I knew
it was never going to happen, it was finally laid to rest. Ahh well.
Otherwise, a fine job.

At Canonbury the new NLL platforms are in place as is the new bit of the
centre platform for the ELL. The w/b ELL platform has a lot of work
still needed - there is a missing overbridge and lift towers and stairs
not connected together! Of all of the locations Canonbury looked the
most rushed and it was evident to my eyes that there'd been a last
minute rush to get it to the point of being ready for passengers. There
are no train indicators, PA or CCTV at Canonbury so it's staff with
loudhailers and scribble boards for the time being.

Not a shock - one of the posters the other week had stuck his head over
the wall and said it looked like they'd hardly started with it.... Also,
it was throwing it down at the time, and there's only a small shelter
there IIRC? Couldn't they have put in some sort of roof? Couldn't have
been that expensive to put one in?

Photos are still loading up but most of them are there at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/

Awesome!

One final point, why do they still have "Temporary Sign" all over EVERY
sign? What's the point? Why have they done this?