Roland Perry wrote in message ...
In message , Annabel Smyth
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# Finsbury Park and Arsenal - deep tube platforms that aren't that deep,
and are accessed from the street only by stairs (with, at Finsbury Park,
spiral staircases in the former lift shafts to the main line station
high above).

What happened to those lifts, and why are they no longer used?

Taken out a very long time ago, if the state of wear on the stair treads
is anything to go by. Perhaps they didn't have the required capacity
when the passengers from the Victoria line were added.

They were the last hydraulic lifts on the system.

(I'd better qualify that - the last 'proper' hydraulic lifts, as
opposed to some modern electro-hydraulic installations on the DLR).