Great Northern and City Railway






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Drayton Park, looking north, on 2nd February 2019. On the left is the site of the now demolished GNCR depot and on the right and at a slightly higher ...
David Bosher 02/02/2019
Drayton Park, looking south towards the tunnels and the steep staircase, on 2nd February 2019. After the scheme to link this line to the Alexandra ...
David Bosher 02/02/2019
Drayton Park, looking across to the site of the former Great Northern & City Railway depot (which became a London Undergound depot), marked by more ...
David Bosher 02/02/2019
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Despite being in a busy residential and business part of the London Borough of Islington, and with its station building on the corner of two main ...
David Bosher 13/11/2021
Essex Road, on the former Great Northern & City Railway from Finsbury Park to Moorgate, dating from 1904, is unusual in that passengers have to go ...
David Bosher 13/11/2021
717022, with a Great Northern suburban service to Moorgate, departing from Essex Road on Saturday, 13th November 2021. The station has a rather creepy ...
David Bosher 13/11/2021
717002, with a GN suburban service from Moorgate to Welwyn Garden City, calling at Essex Road on the evening of 29th October 2021. This station began ...
David Bosher 29/10/2021
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717020 draws away from Old Street (Great Northern) with a service to Moorgate on 25 January 2023. ...
Bill Roberton 25/01/2023
The atmospherically gloomy pedestrian subway, from the foot of the steps leading down from the ex-Great Northern & City Railway platforms at Old ...
David Bosher 14/01/2022
313045, heading for Moorgate, departing from its penultimate stop at Old Street station on 4th January 2013. Forty plus years old the 313s and 315s ...
David Bosher 04/01/2013
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