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Old September 28th 20, 08:52 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Nick Leverton Nick Leverton is offline
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Default Drayton Park stock transfers

In article , wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:34:08 +0100
Certes wrote:
On 27/09/2020 22:19, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
In article , writes
It was operationally part of the Northern Line at this point, but
getting stuff to Neasden for heavy overhaul was much easier than getting
it to any Northern Line depot (from Farringdon you'd have to go via the

Why would you go from Farringdon? Surely a train would just be towed from
Drayton Park to East Finchley then run under its own power to Mordon?

How? There wasn't a route from Finsbury Park to East Finchley except via
Farringdon.


There was until 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland_Walk


You'd think Clive would know about that given he's a supposed expert on
the underground.


Despite your famed attention to detail, you seem to have missed that
the date in question for this thread is 1971.

Nick
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