View eastward from the path beside the North London Line between Finchley Road & Frognal and West End Lane stations, where the NLR crosses the Midland Main Line out of St Pancras. All lines are emerging from tunnels (Hampstead Tunnel on the NLR off to the left, Belsize Tunnel on the Midland ahead; also off to the right the tunnels of the LT Metropolitan lines from Baker Street at Finchley Road (LT) and beyond it the ex-GC line from Marylebone. Immediately underneath me on the Down Fast line, Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45648 'Wemyss' is coming out on a stopping train from St Pancras, passing the remains of Finchley Road Midland station (closed 11/7/27) and heading for Bedford. On the left an empty stock train heading for St Pancras is about to join the Up Fast line into the tunnel. On the right are the Goods lines, using their own tunnel. Then on the right are the goods yards of the Midland and Metropolitan (also a Cadbury's warehouse), then out of frame are the four LT tracks and finally the two LNER (ex-GC) tracks. It was a wonderful spot for the Train-Watcher.

David Ford adds "The train is actually on what was the Down Local line ; for some reason the up and down local did not become designated as the slow lines until Silkstream Junction. The coaching stock on the left is actually in the Up Sidings. So looking from left to right we have the two roads of the Up Sidings, the Up and Down Local, the Up and Down Fast and the Up and Down Goods, those wagons being on the latter. "

Nice detail of the rear of a Midland Railway signal fitted with the last design of corrugated steel arms too!