Found this post - http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=67066 - on an UrbEx site a couple of weeks ago.
As much as I don't like the idea of people trespassing in places like this, I can't help but find the pictures fascinating. I'm presuming the tunnel with the track is the abandoned section of the Great Northern & City line.
Your thinking of Finsbury Park, this is Camden - the 'rat hole' took ECS from the west side of the lines down Camden Bank (north of the disused carriage shed), to the east side near the Roundhouse.
Chris
Your thinking of Finsbury Park, this is Camden - the 'rat hole' took ECS from the west side of the lines down Camden Bank (north of the disused carriage shed), to the east side near the Roundhouse.
Chris
Is this the tunnel that runs under the canal. If it is i had the pleasure? of a cab ride a number of years ago along this very route. I had come all the way from MKC in the cab of a 321 courtesy of a very friendly driver running ECS to Euston. I hasten to add I was in LUL uniform.
I didn't think this tunnel was ever electrified. It's purpose was to move coaching stock from Willesden to the long distance departure platforms at Euston (without fouling the main running lines) in the days of steam operation.
I didn't think this tunnel was ever electrified. It's purpose was to move coaching stock from Willesden to the long distance departure platforms at Euston (without fouling the main running lines) in the days of steam operation.
I think the carriage line tunnel was enlarged for electrification. With the side segments replaced with flatter ones hence the eliptical shape compared with the rounder Primrose Hill DC line tunnels that were built at about the same time.
It definitely was electrified. I remember travelling through it on a service train (a 310) back in the 1970s, being very surprised at the time that we were going that way. I never found out the reason for the diversion.
My understanding is that trains carrying passengers were not permitted to use this line as the clearences were so tight that slam doors could not be opened in the tunnel, thus making an ermergecy evacuation impossible.