Rebuild Highbury & Islington!

The official campaign to rebuild Highbury & Islington Station

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Did you know... you can get copies of our new Highbury & Islington station prints framed or unframed from The Only Place for Pictures @theonlyplace on Upper Street? Take a look! Also available online here —> https://t.co/oKrCiAHWkZ

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Your final reminder to object to the butchery of Liverpool Street station. Deadline 4 JULY. Follow the links at @thevicsoc

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The viaduct of the North London Railway over the Great Northern Railway at Maiden Lane, with Highgate in the background.
From the Illustrated London News of 15 November 1851, an article describing a journey from Fenchurch Street to Camden Town. https://t.co/FfkP7LMBWD

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50 years ago, at 08:46 on 28 February 1975, a tube train on the Northern City line from Drayton Park and Highbury ran at speed into the buffers at Moorgate, killing 43 people and injuring 74. We remember them today.

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The Windrush & Mildmay lines have arrived at #Highbury&Islington! With other parts of the Overground network, the East and North London lines take on new identities marking the communities that have contributed so much to London’s character & vibrance.

#mildmayline #windrushline

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Highbury and Islington tube station, showing the Northern City line platform in 1975, just before conversion to take main line trains. It’s now the southbound platform of the Moorgate line. (Photo: LT Museum)

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@RevRichardColes @Kmreses I understand that, following complaints, Borough Market traders are now routinely explaining to tourists that pork pies are _supposed_ to be cold.

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@SouthEastRailGp Both right. NLL diverted to North Woolwich in 1985 (or was it 86?) wjen Broad Street closed. Great Northern commuter trains which ran into Broad Street (via the Canonbury Curve, then double track) were replaced by Great Northern Electrics to Moorgate in 1976.

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It’s 48 years since British Rail took over the Moorgate line, previously the Underground’s Northern City line, diverting Broad Street’s suburban trains to Moorgate through Highbury & Islington.

[Joe Brown @JoeBrownLondon]

ON THIS DAY: 48 years ago, BR reopened the GNCR for Great Northern suburban services. This realised the original intention of the line, explaining its uniqueness among LT 'tubes' being built to surface loading gauge. Atmospheric 1984 shot: Adrian Nicholls https://t.co/pa57zuCKZB

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There’s also a new episode of #SecretsOfTheUnderground this week on the switchover from LT to BR - and the disused section of tunnel between Finsbury Park and Highbury (it doesn’t go all the way, mind!)

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

While most of Great Northern & City Rly tunnels are now used by main line rail, at Finsbury Park it diverges. Victoria & Piccadilly lines use old terminus; so there’s an abandoned stretch of the 16ft dia “tube” tunnels. We explored on this week’s #secretsofthelondonunderground!

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Happy 120th birthday Highbury and Islington Underground station! The tube station opened on 28 June 1904 as Highbury station on the Great Northern and City Railway from Moorgate to Finsbury Park. (H&I station on the North London Railway opened 54 years earlier).

[Lang Rabbie 🇺🇦 @langrabbie.bsky.social @langrabbie]

And not forgetting @RebuildHighbury the campaign to replace the current utilitarian Highbury & Islington station (and the postwar Famous Cock Tavern) with a rebuilding of Edwin Henry Horne's civic grandeur.

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Sadly Edwin Henry Horne's magnum opus for the North London Railway at Bow station (with concert hall of the Bow and Bromley Institute, latterly the Bow Palais, on top) did not survive combination of the Blitz and later fires.
https://t.co/YOOkJmmVWZ

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The other survivor is Hackney Central
https://t.co/AukL9X7jN8

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One of the two surviving "Venetian Gothic" (or should it be called Rundbogenstil?) stations designed by Edwin Henry Horne for the North London Railway

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@soxgnasher @FieldsHighbury To be fair Mildmay Park station - which would have been on the Mildmay line - was disused, but not quite derelict. It was also used, bizarrely, as a car repair garage for a while. This pic, by Brian Gronland on Disused Stations, from 1982. Demolition was in 1987.

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@matthewhodg @overyourhead @TfL Well spotted - the curve faces the wrong way!

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“May God save the Old North London” said John Betjeman. And s/he has - with new line names and colours, reflecting London ‘s social fabric. Stratford-Richmond becomes the Mildmay line, marking the pioneering community hospital (and a station closed in 1934!) … (1/2)

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@overyourhead It’s a wonderful move. So much of London’s social fabric is reflected in these names. Here’s @tfl’s poster introducing the Mildmay line.

[Jonathan Green @overyourhead]

@RebuildHighbury I especially love the naming of the Mildmay Line. The Mildmay hospital in Shoreditch was a byword for compassion and hope for me and for my friends during the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s. It honours so many lost souls. ❤️❤️❤️

Note: “named after” not “goes to” 🙂

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Meanwhile the former East London line, built on the NLR’s City extension - becomes the Windrush line. Very keen on this rebrand - congratulations @tfl. More here —-> https://t.co/B5wu3KjuIs (2/2)