"Paul Scott" wrote:
"Tom Anderson" wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, wrote:
Were there at any point stations on between the Canonbury tunnel and
Finsbury Park?
There still is! The line through the tunnel joins up with the Northern
City line to Moorgate where it comes to the surface, immediately south of
Drayton Park. I have no idea if there were ever platforms on that line,
though.
No, the single line from Canonbury tunnel is separate past Drayton Park,
and it is at a higher level - and when it reverts to double track the down
Canonbury line passes over both the up and down Moorgate lines. They
remain separate all the way up to Finsbury Park, with the Moorgate lines
on the 'insides'. Both down lines pass under the four main lines, the
only connections are just south of FP station, similar on the up side.
No apparent space where there could have been platforms when it was two
track - I haven't ever read of any.
Come to think of it, i have no idea how the tunnels relate underground.
Are they completely separate right up their portals?
I'd recommend Google Maps aerial view as by far the easiest explanation...
The 'Bird's Eye' view on Bing Maps is useful for this kinda thing too -
indeed I've just checked and it's good for looking at this case (tip - you
now need to put a tick in the 'show angled view' box). And one can see a
certain amount from Drayton Park the road itself - the Canonbury Curve line
passes under the road in what I guess would be categorised as a short tunnel
before emerging into the daylight and running in a cutting parallel to Arvon
Rd before then entering the (proper) Canonbury Curve tunnel. At street
level, if you know what you're looking at/for, you can see some of this -
there's fencing you can see through from Drayton Park (road), and there are
gaps in the wooden fencing on Arvon Road (though you can't really see much
there) - between the cutting and Arvon Road there's a length of allotments.
Hypothetically speaking, I think space could have been created for platforms
on the Canonbury Curve line at Drayton Park - though like Paul I've never
come across any mention of there ever having been any in the past. An
interesting 'what if' - it would have turned sleepy Drayton Park station
into something a bit different.