Finsbury Park
Remains of the former Alexandra Palace branch platform at Finsbury Park, looking south, on 25th October 2021. Even if the 1935 scheme to link the branch to the Northern Line had been successful, this platform would have fallen into disuse as it was intended to widen the bridge carrying the up line from Alexandra Palace over the ECML to take both tracks, with tube trains running either side of a new island platform on the east side of the station. The scheme was almost complete by September 1939; had the war been delayed by six months, tube trains would now be running to the walls of Alexandra Palace (unlike the present station on the main line that was called Wood Green until 1982) but after 1945 London Transport had second thoughts and the line closed instead in 1954, leaving the populous north London suburbs of Crouch End (where I live) and Muswell Hill entirely dependant on buses for nearly 70 years.
Location: Finsbury Park
Original line: London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Date: 25/10/2021
Image number: 78920
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