On Sep 23, 11:08*pm, Robin9 wrote:
'Richard J.[_3_ Wrote: ;123243']
From 2018, it will again be possible to travel from Farringdon to
Finsbury Park, as that route is one of the extensions being implemented

in the Thameslink Programme. *Trains will run via St Pancras
International, and then by a new link to the ECML.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Now, that is interesting. I wonder what the route will be. There used to
be a route between Kentish Town and Harringay West via Upper Holloway
(by-passing Finsbury Park of course) but the tunnel between Upper
Holloway and Kentish Town seems to be no longer in use and perhaps no
longer in existence. (When I first moved to Leyton in the mid 1970s the
Goblin route did not go to Gospel Oak. It went via that tunnel to
Kentish Town and sometimes St. Pancras. If it went that route today it
would probably be more heavily patronised)

--
Robin9

The curve that linked Upper Holloway to Kentish Town was lifted in
1981 when the service was diverted to Gospel Oak.

I am not sure if the GOBLIN would be more heavily patronised if it did
go back to Kentish Town. It now forms a useful interchange with the
Richmond - Stratford line, and if you go there in the morning peak and
see a GOBLIN service terminating, you will see a solid wall of people
get off and go to Plaftorm 1 to catch the Richmond/Clapham Junction
train.

Patronage of the GOBLIN has gone up since the service was increased to
four trains per hour.