Train Spotters Platform, Finsbury Park 2006 Added by StephenBln on May 5, 2016 at 11:14 Photo by Fin Fahey, a friend of mine. Back in 2006, the view to the tracks had been allowed to be obscured by the tree. A 1960s school holiday haunt for most local trainspotters, who with spotters books, duffel bags full with sandwiches, sweets and a soft drink, would spend all day here, watching the the to-ing and fro-ing into King Cross. The arrival & departure timetables for King's Croos were posted here, with a notice 'trains pass this point five minutes after leaving King's Cross'. When I last looked in 2014, this area was totally overgrown and the platform seemed to have gone.