Highbury and Islington
The former entrance (and exit) to the Great Northern & City Railway's 1904 Highbury station still stands on Holloway Road, seen here on 13th November 2021. This opened in June 1904, three months after the line, as Highbury, despite the NLR station across the road being known as Highbury & Islington, but the GNCR station eventually followed suit and '& Islington' was added in 1922, but this building remained as plain Highbury. It ceased to be used in 1968 when the Victoria Line opened from Walthamstow Central and the lifts were replaced by new subways and escalators from the ex-NLR ticket hall to allow better interchange between the various lines here. The lifts were the last hydraulically-operated ones on the Underground and I remember them well. Sadly, combining the two stations saw the demolition of the once grandiose Victorian street level building of the NLR station, that had dated from 1850 albeit severely war-scarred for the last 23 years of its existence.
Location: Highbury and Islington
Original line: Great Northern and City Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Date: 13/11/2021
Image number: 79129
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