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Broadtrain1979, I remember passing the evening Canonbury Box was demolished. I was a secondman on a cross London freight. Most of the box was gone but on the box floor was I assumed the signalman holding a Golf Umbrella because the Rain was teaming down. Gospel Oak was terrible due to an electrical problem downstairs in the Box, a fire started and the Signalman was tragically killed. At the time the line through Hampstead Heath station and Tunnel was closed, normal NLL services had been suspended for several weeks due to damage done by a derailed Yeoman Stone Train. DMUs from North Woolwich to Gospel Oak ran with 'staff' working (A large chair leg) between Camden Road - Gospel Oak and return.
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