Finsbury Park Northern Heights Platforms

Although we're now getting well off-topic...

Having looked a bit further into this - the CSLR and Bakerloo contemporary goods traffic was printed papers and small parcels - nothing larger than that - however, deeper research into WTT appendices may bear fruit, I've only quickly skimmed over what I can find.

Looking at what signalling information I can find for Finsbury Park (GNP&B) when the frame on the Picc. side was installed on 15/12/1906 it only had 15 levers. Fortunately contemporary plans and locking tables survive and although there are a lot of spare levers at Finsbury Park it seems very unlikely that another connection, save another scissors crossing was factored into the design - UndergrounD EP frames are *usually* very predictable in their design and the apportionment of the spares at FPk Picc make it look as if a 'mirror image' of the existing provision could have been provided if the line were ever to be extended.

If, as you say (and my very fleeting memory), places the 'milk connections' at the northern end of FPk Picc then there just isn't the provision in the lever frame unless there was some very unusual jiggery-pokery with the levers as installed. Certainly looking at the Westinghouse paperwork - and given that the lead time between ordering and commissioning a frame is of the order of six months, it would appear that the decision not to interlock the extra siding i.e. the 'milk connection' had been made by mid-summer 1906, possibly even earlier as the six-month lead time stems from when Westinghouse were not on major contracts - I susepct that the orders for the frames may even have been placed in 1905 or 1904.

Now, I'm not saying that you're wrong, far from it: but based on the evidence I have milk traffic on the GNP&B seems unlikely beyond the speculative stage when getting parliamentary authority.

Is there anyway that I could see the deposited plans for Finsbury Park GNP&B, please: that might confirm or deny my thoughts based on the frame interlocking.

Where would the spoil from construction have debouched at this end of the Picc.?

Not relating to the Piccadilly tunnels, but of possible relevance:

The GNR applied for an Act in 1903 for the construction of sidings (note plural!) for the GN&CR to the north of the station. The tunnel was to have been 356 yds in length. From a quick look at the plans, it would have had a short length of 16 ft diameter tunnel, but most would have been rather larger - perhaps a shade over 20 ft. The plans show the tunnel entirely beneath the GNR sidings; the centre line doesn't pass beneath any buildings, but there are several within the limits of deviation. No shafts to the surface shown though. It's interesting that the plans refer to sidings, but they don't make it clear whether this was one tunnel large enough for two parallel tracks or two parallel tunnels - and if the latter, why they needed to be so large.
I can't see at present whether this became part of the GNR Act 1903, but it was certainly never constructed.

Where did you find it, and are there anymore?
I have a copy of "The Big Tube" by J. Graeme Bruce, published in 1976, nice little history of the line, plenty of photos but sadly none showing any platforms at any of the stations.