On 2011\03\02 22:44, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, wrote:
Were there at any point stations on between the Canonbury tunnel and
Finsbury Park?
There still is! The line through the tunnel joins up with the Northern
City line to Moorgate where it comes to the surface, immediately south
of Drayton Park. I have no idea if there were ever platforms on that
line, though.
Come to think of it, i have no idea how the tunnels relate underground.
Are they completely separate right up their portals?
The Big Tube ends at Drayton Park (the road).
The Canonbury Curve tunnel ends near Ronalds Road. This is quite clear
from the satellite photos in the map resource of your choice. The
Canonbury Curve is significantly higher than the Moorgate Line at
Drayton Park station, I think high enough to bridge over the Moorgate
Line in the station, although the bridging actually occurs north of the
station. Whenever I have ended up in Drayton Park station for ten
minutes there has always been a train passing on the curve, so it got
more use than people seem to think, although I have not been there in
the last five years.