| Liverpool Road, Highbury, London N1
Written by Nick Slocombe - 31 Aug 2004 |
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Liverpool Road runs parallel with the A1 Holloway Road/Upper Street between the Angel and just south of Holloway Road tube station.
Parking is not easy, all the streets are metered or pay and display or are residents only.
Highbury and Islington station is only five minutes walk away. Turn right out of the station, first right and then walk alongside the stations retaining wall until you reach Liverpool Road.
Highbury Corner, Upper Street, Holloway Road has every conceivable cuisine from the extremely posh to the downright nasty. There are three or four pubs serving adequate food within a couple of minutes walk of the station.
I think the best shot is looking east over the station, particularly westbounds on the reversible line. Loaded Freightliners look good snaking through the curved reversible platform. The shot is good from late morning to mid afternoon. Late afternoon in summer the sun swings towards the north side (the line is running NE/SW) which allows shots on the passenger lines, mainly of DB Schenker diesel hauled freights.
The shot looking west in the morning (up to around mid-day) is not bad but because the line is in a cutting with numerous over bridges you get little advanced notice of approaching eastbounds.
