Points of Contention

[Driver74]

A while back there was a section from JD listing all the LU reversing points. Since this item has been closed for reasons beyond me. There were some interesting points emulating from it. As a refugee from the Control room now at Highgate and prior to that qualified for each individual signal box before they all closed. It doesn’t surprise me that there was no mention of emergency stabling points. It all goes to show how things and people have changed?

Northern:
Archway
Charing Cross (The old Strand)
Colindale
East Finchley
Edgware
Euston
Finchley Central
Golders Green
Hampstead
High Barnet
Kennington
King's Cross ?
Mill Hill East
Moorgate
Morden
Mornington Crescent
Stockwell
Tooting Broadway
Totteridge & Whetstone

An interesting listing. In my day London Bridge and Clapham Common had reversing points. The Angel had a reversing siding then. It was also the only signal cabin with the original City & South London levers and equipment.
Finchley Central. Here one as able to reverse back from the NB Barnet platform to East Finchley. Something left over from the old steam Goods train days.
Your listing Kings Cross as a reversing point interested me. On the Piccadilly line yes, stock exchanges maybe. Although the signal box for the Pic line is on the SB Northern I was only called upon to use it once.
Platform changes down the City side of the Northern created a number of changes.

Park Junction (south of E.Finchley) used to have three reversing points?

 

[DavyCrocket]

The Northern do use the Kings Cross loop quite reguarly to reverse trains. Of course someone needs to be staffing the Kings Cross signal desk at Earl's Court (often closed due to staff shortage!) to press the Slot Release button! The loop is not use to reverse Picc trains, thogh can be used to park up a very broken one!

Oh, and they havent moved to Highgate yet - tis another few years to go!

 

[Driver74]

The Northern do use the Kings Cross loop quite reguarly to reverse trains. Of course someone needs to be staffing the Kings Cross signal desk at Earl's Court (often closed due to staff shortage!) to press the Slot Release button! The loop is not use to reverse Picc trains, thogh can be used to park up a very broken one!

Oh, and they havent moved to Highgate yet - tis another few years to go!

Thanks for the update on the Control room move to Highgate. When I first heard about it brought a smile to my face. I mean Billericky to Highgate for a 6 am start when it was bad enough getting there to man Park Junction. Still that’s progress I guess. Living fairly locally it always fell on me to cover the am shifts here.
The mention of the change of use for Kings Cross loop was interesting. Manning Euston, one had to issue a wrong road certificate to the driver of a ballast train returning to Lilly Bridge who was piloted by the Inspector at Kings Cross who, having previously setting up the route and clipping and scotching the points, the said move was made.
Stock transfers were made via Moorgate and back to Kings Cross under signals. You never mentioned how many trains one can stable at Kennigton in an emergency?