In this view, taken from Isledon Road, the truncated row

of houses on the left and the small park behind the trees are seen. These feature in a number of contemporary photographs taken of Finsbury Park depot during the 1970s and 1980s. The depot, the home to many types of diesel that operated on the ECML, was located beyond the park where the housing estate is now built. It is probably the fabled Class 55 Deltics that were synonymous with the depot that eventually closed in 1983 a mere twenty-three years after opening. Initially, it was coded as 34G and from 1973, under TOPS, becoming FP.