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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 19:51:50 GMT
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Post by grahamhewett on Nov 14, 2012 19:57:38 GMT
Fleet line east of CX? [Not sure how far the tunnels were fitted out]
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 14, 2012 20:01:00 GMT
It has foxed me, unless I have missed where it it somewhere. Any ideas please folks? Finsbury Park area is my guess - look at the modern cabling. |
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Post by superteacher on Nov 14, 2012 20:58:51 GMT
It has foxed me, unless I have missed where it it somewhere. Any ideas please folks? Finsbury Park area is my guess - look at the modern cabling. Looks like tube size - aren't the abandoned tunnels in the Finsbury Park area ex Northern City, so therefore would be larger? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 21:27:26 GMT
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Post by superteacher on Nov 14, 2012 21:35:49 GMT
Could also be in the Angel or London Bridge area, both of which have also had lines diverted in recent years, thus leading to abandoned running tunnels.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 14, 2012 21:36:12 GMT
Looks like tube size - aren't the abandoned tunnels in the Finsbury Park area ex Northern City, so therefore would be larger? The former NCL tunnels at Finsbury Park have not been abandoned. They are used by the southbound Piccadilly and Victoria lines. Could it be the second tunnel on the Aldwych branch? the one that was abandoned after only a few years? Ot possibly one of the Jubilee overrun tunnels at Charing Cross - did tyhey ever get rails laid? EDIT - found it - about two thirds of the way down this page. It's at Charing Cross, but it never had, or was intended to have, rails in it. |
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Post by superteacher on Nov 14, 2012 22:04:48 GMT
Looks like tube size - aren't the abandoned tunnels in the Finsbury Park area ex Northern City, so therefore would be larger? The former NCL tunnels at Finsbury Park have not been abandoned. They are used by the southbound Piccadilly and Victoria lines. Could it be the second tunnel on the Aldwych branch? the one that was abandoned after only a few years? Ot possibly one of the Jubilee overrun tunnels at Charing Cross - did tyhey ever get rails laid? EDIT - found it - about two thirds of the way down this page. It's at Charing Cross, but it never had, or was intended to have, rails in it. There are bits of tunnels abandoned at Finsbury Park. Yes, most of them were taken over by the southbound Vic and Picc lines, but there are bits between the old and new alignments that were definitely abandoned. www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Drayton_Park_station.html |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 22:30:03 GMT
EDIT - found it - about two thirds of the way down this page. It's at Charing Cross, but it never had, or was intended to have, rails in it. Brilliant. Thank you. |
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Post by railtechnician on Nov 29, 2012 14:20:20 GMT
The former NCL tunnels at Finsbury Park have not been abandoned. They are used by the southbound Piccadilly and Victoria lines. Could it be the second tunnel on the Aldwych branch? the one that was abandoned after only a few years? Ot possibly one of the Jubilee overrun tunnels at Charing Cross - did tyhey ever get rails laid? EDIT - found it - about two thirds of the way down this page. It's at Charing Cross, but it never had, or was intended to have, rails in it. There are bits of tunnels abandoned at Finsbury Park. Yes, most of them were taken over by the southbound Vic and Picc lines, but there are bits between the old and new alignments that were definitely abandoned. www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Drayton_Park_station.htmlIndeed there are and one of them contains the remains of a brick built pumphouse at what appeared to be the bottom of a capped shaft adjacent to the trackbed. There is nothing in them but tunnel dust and the occasional bracket, the track having been lifted long ago and the cables recovered. Walking in them I would liken to what I imagine walking on the moon would be like, though having better gravity because the dust was quite deep when I was last in them some 20 years ago. There was no lighting in them then and they were quite eerie places seemingly without end when walking towards Drayton Park. |
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Post by crusty54 on Nov 29, 2012 19:18:12 GMT
Think it may be the construction link between the Bakerloo and former Jubilee tunnels.
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Post by Ben on Dec 3, 2012 13:37:38 GMT
On the subject of the Northern City line, does anyone have any signal scale plans for it dating from LT's time? I'd really be intereted in seeing how it interracted with the Vic and Pic and Finsbury and Highbury geographically instead of just diagrammatically. I know its a long shot as the linen sheets wouldn't have been of interest to the company since the time it was handed over in the 70s...
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