In message , Mark Brader
writes
Annabel Smyth:
What happened to those [Finsbury Park] lifts...?

Roland Perry:
Taken out a very long time ago ... Perhaps they didn't have the
required capacity ...

"Kev":
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).

Okay, what's the distinction here? How does a "proper" hydraulic one work?

Guessing wildly here (and probably wrong) but there were many hydraulic
lifts in London worked by a distributed system. It went out of business
a long time ago, and iirc the pipes were bought by a telco for putting
fibre through.
--
Roland Perry