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The pantograph changeovers at Drayton Park and Mitre Bridge.
Also Farringdon. I couldn't see much at Mitre Bridge and that was
when they had to stop.
You might wait a very long time to see a pan going up or down at
Farringdon. The changeover now happens at City Thameslink.
When did that change? I thought I'd seen pan raising there since the
platform extensions. Last time I remember was the last day of the A stock,
September 2013?
I think it was around six months ago.
But Farringdon remains an interesting station in transition (remember,
in 1863 it was the City terminus of the world's first underground
railway, and will soon be one of the world's busiest underground and
interchange stations).
It doesn't have much to chow of that history these days IME.
The old Met station exterior has been restored to some extent. It's
certainly a historic site, that's attempting to span the 19th, 20th and
21st centuries. In a few years, it'll be the key interchange between
Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports, using lines that obviously didn't
exist in 1863, as well as Padd, St P, Kings X, Liverpool St, and other
mainline stations.