TFW’s workshop

[Yorkshire Dave]

Both head walls have now been made for the YR platform. The signal cabin end will get the conduits added when the box is made.

This I deduce is the head wall for the Westbound platform at the Kings Cross end. With the transposed Eastbound signal box being at the other (Finsbury Park) end.

Coming onto non-public/service cross passages shown on the GNP&BRly plan this could be a later dated plan as the other plan carries the full title of Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Railway.

I came across a YouTube video of an unauthorised access to York Road which in the later stages shows a brief glimpse of the alcove/doorway. From this it appears to lead into the cross passage. Any tiling would be carried around as far as the door frame as it would have been on public view.

 

[Tim Watson]

Many thanks for that Dave. Definitely a cross passage, but not for public access. Elsewhere on the station the entrance sides to the cross passages are rendered rather than tiled. It will make a nice little detail as the cross access passage opening will be visible in the tunnel lining.

Tim