Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace Railway, Updated Version 

A labour of love. Well done.

I walked the Parkland Walk many times when I was younger. It's so nice to see this excellent reconstruction of the line. Many thanks for all your hard work.

Many thanks; much appreciated and realistic virtual rendition of a trip I wish I was old enough to have taken.

Geoff: if you see a bench made out of old sleepers, you simply have to sit on it.

Amazing animation... I particularly like the RT type bus by Cranley Gardens Station, and those waiting at Finsbury Park... really nice detail!

I was born in Wood Green a year before it closed but still remember the old Station being boarded up on regular Sunday outings to the Ally Pally. Because of a deep interest in Railways I have researched the line, among others, and built a nice collection of photographs along the branch. I have to say that this is a remarkable piece of work and is the nearest thing most of us will experience as a trip on it behind an N2 - well done!! A shame in some respects that Wood Green Station was renamed Alexandra Palace in 1982 - causes confusion in some Facebook Groups on the Wood Green area when we mention "Alexandra Palace Station now closed"!!!!

This is amazing. My house backs onto this line. Must have been a lot of work to produce this.

I lived in Stroud Green when I first got married in 1969 and live almost opposite the old station. Of course the platforms had gone by then as they were built cantilevered across the bridge. It's only recently I've found out about the station that was there. I saw the battery locomotives go by on a few occasions too.

Fantastic recreation, thank you so much

Brilliant. So good to see this. I have Trainz 12 and can see how much work you have put into this. Well done.

WELL DONE IN CREATING THIS VIDEO

Absolutely amazing. I will be modelling a trimmed down representation of the line on my new layout, so this is a fantastic resource.

This line closed when I was 7. I lived between Crouch End and Stroud Green, where the line crossed Crouch Hill and Mountview Road. The new works substation on the right is in your video, next to Coleman Mansions, it was never activated as the line was never taken in to LT. Great video, thank you.

Walked the route few months back , nice to see what it would have like. lot different now.

A really enjoyable trip...used this line many times in the past...well done!

I've just seen this and it's absolutely incredible. Well done a real work of art.

Thank you Michael for a clever piece of work. I thought the footplate crew were a bit unlucky with the signals! What a shame the line didn’t survive just a few more years, it would be invaluable now.

This is an updated version, with some annotations and pictures of the actual stations.

Fantastic work, Michael. Thank you. I live in Oakfield Court, Haslemere Road and a section of our long garden wall backs onto Vicarage Path which gives access to the platforms at Crouch End Station. In this garden wall opposite the front door to my block are steps and the ghost of the gate used by residents to get down onto the platform - rather than walking the long way round - in times gone by. The gate is long bricked up but still visible, the steps are still there. I can imagine the daily dash through the gate to catch the train every day. As a director of Crouch End Festival, we use Parkland Walk - as is - for drama and song performances in summer and I I enjoy the Walk almost every day.

Very nicely done. I grew up alongside this railway track and used to play on it regularly in the 1960s and 70s as a kid. Still remember the trains running on it. As I'm sure you know, although the passenger service was closed many years earlier, the portion from Finsbury Park to Highgate and East Finchley remained open until 1970 and was used in its later years to transfer empty tube stock between lines. I think the locomotives hauling the trains on the line at that time in the 1960s and 70s were battery locomotives as you show in your video. There used to be a small picturesque station house on the left as you came into Highgate station from Cranley Gardens. It gradually fell into decay but I still remember it in the late 1970s when you could still walk there along the tunnels before they were blocked off and turned into a bat sanctuary. At the time I never thought to photograph the derelict Highgate overground station with its waiting rooms and station house, not realising it would have made an interesting historical record in decades to come. Also that little green bridge @10:12 crossing the track after you exit the tunnel just after Highgate station by Holmesdale Rd used to actually exist until it fell into decay and collapsed. I remember it well and used to walk across it. I seem to remember it was black. The bridge across Northwood Rd @10.33 used to have walls. They're still there. About 75 yards East past the Northwood Rd bridge there used to be a set of catch points on the track with a big lever. Great reconstruction. Thanks for all the work.

Well done, Michael! I have a very old version of Trainz - which I have never been able to get going - maybe that's why your new version was brought out! Excellent. I like the way some of your passengers waiting on the platforms are a few feet off the ground! Adds to the ethereal effect!

Amazing. Well done

this is excellent.

This is very very clever. You even got the girders at Finsbury Park I remember them well. The battery loco would have hauled standard tube stock not 1938 stock. The standard stock ran u til 1966 then retired to the Isle of White Lov yer work

Thnks Mick,I am old enough to remember the branch&the N2's that worked it,lots of hard work for you &looks fantastic,nice touch the LTE stock train,which could be hauled by BTH type1's some times & shouldn't the freight train have a guards van& wooden wagons?along with that block of flats near the Finsbury Park Station? more like '70s?minor gripes, loving the trip!

very good!

Well done, ​ @Michael Berg. I wish I had the patience to creative something as wonderful as this. That's if I had the software in the first place - well, maybe one day. :)

Many thanks for this very watchable video - had me riveted! I note your train took only ten minutes from Muswell Hill to Crouch End station despite all the signals! The W7 bus, with a much straighter route, still takes 8 minutes; I'd guess that - if the line had joined the Underground network - a modern tube-train would do it in about 5. Does anyone have any information about how long the trams (which, I gather, were the competition which did for the railway) took? - presumably quicker downhill than up!

Very clever and excellent editing, well done !!! It would be good if you were able to do this for other branch lines that have closed in which there are many to chose from.

Absolutely brilliant! Any thoughts on doing the Crystal Palace High Level branchline?

Great to have a ride on a gone railway ! Pitty about the large red text whenever something special comes along, a bit smaller font and shorter view time (!) would let me appreciate your work even more !

the closest thrill to this is bombing it down on a bicycle by night

Wow thats some modeling. What is it done in ? Looks a bit like Sketchup. You could import it into Twinmotion and do it in VR.

PARK JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX WORKED 82 LEAVERS COVER THE JUNCTION HIGHGATE DEPOT, WELLINGTON SIDINGS AND APRACH TO AND FROM EAST FINCHLEY THE ROAL TRAIN WAS USED TO BE STABLED IN A SEPERATE SHED NEXT TO THE MAI DEPOT

Oh god, not another cartoon...

This is horrific. It makes Highgate and Muswell Hill look like some hellish amalgamation of Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl and Glasgow! I kept expecting to see some drug crazed knife wielding 'weegie or mutant come streaking out of the treeline.