The North London Line is a disgrace - another reason is all the cruddy
stations.
I thought the Highbury + Islington gothic masterpiece station was
destroyed in the war, but thumbing through a book today I found
pictures of it post '45 albeit damaged. It turns out it was buldozed
in 1967. Likewise, Canonbury Station was bulldozed in 1969 to make way
for the Concrete portacabin style stations that replaced them. This
must have been to pave the way for the infamous GLC nonsense the
Northway urban motorway that was to go over the NLL. No room for
crenelated towers in the face of 6 lanes of flyover.

Dave Arquati wrote in message ...
Colin McKenzie wrote:
Phil Richards wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:02:16 +0100 Tom Anderson

ObUTL: Looking again at this map: the GOBLin has really poor
connections doesn't it!


It's got a lot of 'near misses', though:
Upper Holloway - Archway

Crouch Hill - Finsbury Park

Harringay Green Lanes - Harringay

Also Manor House

South Tottenham - Seven Sisters


It's a disgrace that both the Goblin and the North London have so many
non-interchanges after 50 years of nationalised railways. There's not
much sign of Ken improving things either.

Of course, if they had usable interchanges, they'd need frequent and
longer trains to carry the passengers they'd divert from overloaded tube
trains.

Colin McKenzie

The problem with this is that the Goblin is earmarked as a freight route
rather than a passenger one, and in order to increase passenger service
frequency on the North London Line, the Goblin will have to take more
freight - condemning it to an ever-poor passenger service.