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At Euston station the track layout is particular in that the Northbound Victoria trains correspond to the Southbound Northern Line trains of the City Branch.

Looking at CULG (the Northern Line page, in particular) and my Quail map, I think this is wrong. There is cross-platform interchange between Southbound Victoria and Southbound Northern (City Branch), but the trains run in oppposite directions along the adjacent platforms. The Vic runs right-handed at this point in order to allow this. Similarly the NB Vic has XPI with the NB Northern. The signalling diagrams on Tubeprune confirm this, too. Having said that, I'm a long way from Euston and I can't go and check. --rbrwr

I think you're right. I think it's me that wrote that bit & I think I got my wires crossed. The Euston deal is the reason why the Vic tunnels cross over for Warren St - Euston - KX. The idea with these is always that the paired directions are "central"->"burbs" and "burbs"->"central" - in effect, it means you can treat the lines as branches. So yeah, a Walthamstow train will let you change to an Edgware train. And Eastbound Vic runs with Westbound Northern. -- Tarquin 16:44 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, so the Vic is running NE to SW and the City branch is sort of NW to SE at that point. The tracks are pretty much east-west at that point, so a northbound (Walthamstow) Vic is going east while a northbound (Edgware/Barnet) Northern is going west alongside it. I shall change it... and yes, it was you that put that in there ;-). --rbrwr

Also dumping this in here for the moment...

a new two-platform system with a central hallway and transverse connecting corridors was built, but only one of the new platforms is used for the Victoria line. The other receives the diverted connecting line, while the existing platform pair of the connecting line has one platform switched to the Victoria line.

...which is not quite true. It's true of Highbury & Islington, and of Euston (though a third new platform was also built there), but at Finsbury Park no new platforms were built (they reused the Northern City Line platforms) and at OXO and Stockwell the Vic was put in either side of the existing station. See CULG, for example.

Anyone have the cost of building it? 81.178.107.120 12:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)