Finsbury Park MPD

[rockinjohn]

Hi its intresting to speculate where the Edgware branch was intending to terminate eventually, the grand plan in GNR days was the goal of Watford,which would have made the LNWR a bit twitchy,with the Midland Railway the same around the Mill Hill area arriving both arriving within in a couple of years of each other,so the LTE plan of heading on to Bushey Heath(Aldenham) in the right direction although 80yrs(approx) to late.

[Mickey]

All in all, a fairly dangerous place to be working in if you weren't careful walking about the MPD cos it was a very long drop from the raised platforms inside the covered building to the hard concrete ground floor down below passing on the way down in between the 4ft-8in gap between the two metal rails which if you did unfortunately fall off the raise platform you would either be killed or crippled for the rest of your life?

By the early 1970s usually, several blue or even the odd two-tone green livered class 31 always to be found inside the shed for minor fitter's attention and a couple of young cleaners cleaning the windows on a diesel loco and they were new starters in the loco department and were still called officially 'cleaners' before being appointed officially as a secondman at either Kings Cross or anywhere else on British Rail during the 1970s plus usually several other class 31s and 47s would be standing outside in Clarence yard.

A pub use, to be located outside the main entrance to Finsbury Park diesel depot named The Globe I believe although I never went in the place cos usually locomen or loco crews would usually walk to and from the diesel depot along the railway from Finsbury Park station.