Essex Road
717002, with a GN suburban service from Moorgate to Welwyn Garden City, calling at Essex Road on the evening of 29th October 2021. This station began life as Essex Road with the Great Northern & City Railway in 1904 and was renamed Canonbury & Essex Road in 1922, but the original name was restored in 1948. This was, for years, a London Underground line treated as a short spur of the Northern Line where, on 28th February 1975, a crowded morning rush hour train of 1938 stock crashed into the short over-run tunnel at Moorgate, resulting tragically in much loss of life. LU trains ceased shortly after when the line was temporarily closed to enable it to be reconstructed for use by GN electric suburban trains which began with class 313 units (that lasted until 2019) on 8th November 1976.
Location: Essex Road
Original line: Great Northern and City Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Class 717 Great Northern units 2019-2021
Date: 29/10/2021
Image number: 78955
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