In article , John Rowland
writes
AFAIK the Picc is under the mainline from Kings Cross to Finsbury Park
inclusive. (Which is stupid, because it's obvious that they should have
built it under Caledonian Road...)

Putting it under the main line gives more room for necessary deviations
than trying to put it under the road. And the GNP&BR was in cahoots with
the GNR anyway (that's why it ended at Finsbury Park).

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John Rowland:
AFAIK the Picc is under the mainline from Kings Cross to Finsbury Park
inclusive. (Which is stupid, because it's obvious that they should have
built it under Caledonian Road...)

Clive Feather:
Putting it under the main line gives more room for necessary deviations
than trying to put it under the road. And the GNP&BR was in cahoots with
the GNR anyway (that's why it ended at Finsbury Park).

Who are you and what have you done with the real Clive Feather?

It was the *GN&SR* that was in cahoots with the GNR; that's why their
preferred routing, which Parliament approved, ran under the GNR from
King's Cross to *Wood Green*. Then the GNR lost interest in supporting
the GN&SR and it was bought up by Yerkes group, specifically the B&PCR,
eventually to be merged with it as the GNP&BR.

But it was a condition of that sale that the powers to build from
Finsbury Park to Wood Green *inclusive* be abandoned -- the GNR would
build and own the Finsbury Park terminus and retain a veto on northward
extension. In other words, the reason the GNP&BR ended at Finsbury Park
was that it was *no longer* in cahoots with the GNR.

(This is also why the GN&CR ended at Finsbury Park, when that was its name.)
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In article ,
(chris) wrote:

Annie will pop out the tunnel Tuesday morning, at nine am all welcome
to see between York Road and Caledonian Road

No-one seems to have posted a confirmation and there doesn't seem to be
anything on the CTRL pictures site but Annie seems to have arrived OK. At
least she's sitting there today.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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In article ,
(chris) wrote:

Annie will pop out the tunnel Tuesday morning, at nine am all welcome
to see between York Road and Caledonian Road

No-one seems to have posted a confirmation and there doesn't seem to be
anything on the CTRL pictures site but Annie seems to have arrived OK. At
least she's sitting there today.

Try http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/constru...sp?L=19&SL=159.

Angus

In message ,
Colin Rosenstiel writes
Annie will pop out the tunnel Tuesday morning, at nine am all welcome
to see between York Road and Caledonian Road

No-one seems to have posted a confirmation and there doesn't seem to be
anything on the CTRL pictures site but Annie seems to have arrived OK. At
least she's sitting there today.

Someone posted a link (not to ctrl) but I can't find it at the moment
:-(
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Roland Perry

In article ,
(Angus Bryant) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(chris) wrote:

Annie will pop out the tunnel Tuesday morning, at nine am all
welcome to see between York Road and Caledonian Road

No-one seems to have posted a confirmation and there doesn't seem to
be anything on the CTRL pictures site but Annie seems to have arrived
OK. At least she's sitting there today.

Try http://www.ctrl.co.uk/photos/constru...sp?L=19&SL=159.

I've seen her with my own eyes, twice. Anyway, she's out in the open now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(chris) wrote:

Annie will pop out the tunnel Tuesday morning, at nine am all welcome
to see between York Road and Caledonian Road

No-one seems to have posted a confirmation and there doesn't seem to be
anything on the CTRL pictures site but Annie seems to have arrived OK.
At least she's sitting there today.

It was on BBC London news...