On Oct 6, 11:02 pm, lonelytraveller
wrote:
On 6 Oct, 19:14, Paul Terry wrote:





In message . com,
lonelytraveller writes

On 6 Oct, 15:43, Paul Terry wrote:
According to "Rails Through the Clay" (page 27):

At the east end of the island platform, a gallery suspended from
the tunnel roof led to two lifts communicating with a surface
ticket hall in Seymour (now Eversholt) Street ...
That would make sense. Are there any photographs of this?

Not in "Rails Through the Clay". The only photo I've seen of the
original island layout at Euston is in the monograph on the Northern
Line by Mike Horne and Bob Bayman, and that is facing the wrong way
(towards the central staircase down to the platform) and is labelled as
a "rare" photo of the original layout - not surprisingly, since much of
it was altered after only a few years.

It must have been very unusual for a deep level line.

The only thing I would add is that the photo mentioned above shows that
the station tunnel was very high by modern standards - I would estimate
about 16 feet - so building some sort of gantry-bridge above the tracks
was clearly possible. The original island platform at Angel was similar
- the following photo gives some sort of idea of the height:

http://photos.ltmcollection.org/imag...0/i00000v0.jpg
--
Paul Terry

Thats the same height as at Clapham, which still has the original
stairs and island. There must be a photo of the original Euston
somewhere - though its hard enough to find pictures of the old CSLR
surface building

There's a picture of the latter in "The Northern Line A Brief History"
by Charles E Lee, taken in 1907, but the roads it's on the corner of
aren't specified.