Talk:West Finchley tube station

LNER service
Re the passage "after a period where the station was serviced by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941" - the ref given doesn't verify that directly, but merely states "1941-03-02 East Finchley to Highgate closed [LNER]". The thing is, a new station was built at Highgate on a different site, and a stretch of new line was built for at least part of the distance between there and East Finchley. So, we would expect a closure date for the stretch from the "old" Highgate station, but were LNER services north of East Finchley still running up to that date, or had they ceased when Northern Line started? -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:32, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Materials
I've heard that some of the parts of the station (buildings, footbridge, etc.) were sourced from stations in the north that were closed during the depression. Does anyone have any information about this? 85.211.103.98 (talk) 23:11, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

The footbridge
To my knowledge, two sources (Pevsner and somewhere else, I think the old London Underground stations book) claim that the station footbridge comes from a 'Wintersett & Ryhill station' in Yorkshire and I've cited this. But this seems very hard to believe. If you look at photos taken there, like here and here, the footbridge looks different. The stairs look OK to match, but the top is all level whereas West Finchley's curves up, most in the outermost segments but also subtly closer to the centre. So if this is right the footbridge must have been modified considerably to fit into its new location, or possibly new sections were fabricated. (If so they did a classy job - the footbridge looks to be all of a piece now, and I would have thought that introducing a subtle curve in the metalwork would be a hard way to adapt it.) Worst of all, the second of those sources seems to have some text saying that the footbridge was still there in 1953: I can't make it appear on the page, but it comes up in google image search and if you view page source you see a caption saying that one of the photos (with footbridge) is of an excursion train visiting the line in 1953. So basically a huge mess - I think further investigation is needed, but I'm now less and less certain that it comes from that specific station. I suppose it might have been a footbridge nearby on the line but not part of that station? In addition, the Wikipedia article on it says it's actually called Ryhill & Wintersett, which adds to my suspicions that the sources claiming it's from there are not to be trusted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.192.77 (talk) 06:46, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The Youtuber Jago Hazzard covered West Finchley station today, and also noticed that the footbridge doesn't look like coming from Ryhill, but instead like the one at the next station down the line, Notton & Royston. I've added their video as a source. --Metrophil (talk) 18:55, 4 February 2022 (UTC)