| Junction Road Junction
Written by Marcus Dawson - 30 Aug 2009 |
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Junction Road, the A400, leads off the A1 at Archway. It is about a mile from Archway.
There is ample local roadside parking.
In 2009 this is charged at 20p for 10 mins and you can stay for up to 2 hours.
Bus wise, you can catch the 390 from Euston, or the 134 from nearby Warren Street and these buses pass over the location bridge.
Tube: Tufnell Park tube station is about 300 meters to the south.
Rail: The location is situated roughly in the middle of Gospel Oak and Upper Holloway stations, both would be around a 10 minute walk.
There are plenty of shops and takeaways in the local area, in either Archway or Tufnell Park.
The location is a quite tight shot of trains emerging from tunnels about 400 yards away from the bridge. Right under the bridge is the point work for the junction with the Midland Main Line. These points are usually set to the Gospel Oak to Barking line, so if they change the next thing passing will be MML traffic.
Steps are certainly required to get over the bridge sides as they are about 6 foot high, but there are wide pavements on both sides, the same applies to the bridge to the west on 'Dartmouth Park Road', from which you can only get a west bound shot. Line speed is slow through here, probably no more than 30mph. Video would suffer from road noise from the A400.
