Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)






Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


London to Edmonton

315838 to Liverpool Street departing from its penultimate stop at Bethnal Green on 30th April 2013. The platforms on the main line (on right) were ...
David Bosher 30/04/2013
The disused platforms at Bethnal Green station, closed in 1946, with the remaing platforms on the north side in the background, now served by London ...
David Bosher 15/09/2023
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The Great Eastern Railway viaduct of 1872 crossing the Regents Canal, just to the north of Cambridge Heath station, looking east on 31st August 2020. ...
David Bosher 31/08/2020
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Entrance to London Fields station, built into one of the arches of the GER viaduct of 1872 that extends from Bethnal Green to Hackney Downs, seen here ...
David Bosher 31/08/2019
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The entrance at Hackney Downs station to the walkway that connects with Hackney Central on 17th February 2016. A previous walkway connecting Hackney ...
David Bosher 29/04/2021
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Rectory Road station, with replacement waiting shelters for the original Victorian structures, looking north on 31st August 2019. This station serves ...
David Bosher 31/08/2019
Southbound platform at Rectory Road station, north London, originally opened by the GER in 1872 and part of London Overground since 2015, with the ...
David Bosher 31/08/2019
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317729 with a London Overground service to Liverpool Street calling at Stoke Newington station, serving the north London suburb where I was born, ...
David Bosher 12/08/2019
The rather unappealing rebuilt entrance to Stoke Newington station, dating from the early 1970s, about 100 years after the station opened in 1872, on ...
David Bosher 12/08/2019
Stoke Newington station, serving the north London suburb where I was born, looking towards Liverpool Street, on 3rd August 2013. This station was ...
David Bosher 03/08/2013
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315 808 with a London Overground service to London Liverpool Street departing from Stamford Hill station, north London, on 4th May 2018. The Enfield ...
David Bosher 04/05/2018
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315847, with a service from London Liverpool Street to Enfield (actually Enfield Town) arriving at Seven Sisters station in north London, and an ...
David Bosher 16/08/2013
315812, with a London Overground service from Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, arriving at Seven Sisters station on a cold and damp New Year's Day ...
David Bosher 01/01/2020
Seven Sisters station, Enfield Town and Cheshunt line, looking north on 1st January 2020. This opened in 1872 and lost its Victorian buildings when it ...
David Bosher 01/01/2020
Through these trees at Seven Sisters can be discerned a small surviving section of the embankment that once supported the North Woolwich bound ...
David Bosher 01/01/2020
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Bruce Grove station in the Tottenham area of north London, on the Liverpool Street to Enfield Town and Cheshunt line, part of London Overground since ...
David Bosher 31/08/2019
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The brand new entrance, giving access to a much improved and larger ticket hall at White Hart Lane station, opened on 26th August 2019, seen here one ...
David Bosher 27/09/2019
New entrance, giving access to an enlarged and much improved ticket hall, at White Hart Lane station, north London, on 27th September 2019. ...
David Bosher 27/09/2019
The former east side entrance to White Hart Lane station, now closed and replaced by an enlarged and much improved ticket hall just to the south, on ...
David Bosher 27/09/2019
Obsolete boarded-up waiting rooms on the Liverpool Street-bound platform at White Hart Lane station, north London, on 4th May 2018. This station ...
David Bosher 04/05/2018
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Silver Street station, in the Edmonton district of north London, looking south on 27th September 2019. This station was opened by the GER on 22nd ...
David Bosher 27/09/2019
315810, with a London Overground service to Liverpool Street, departing from Silver Street on 27th September 2019. The last Class 315 EMUs were ...
David Bosher 27/09/2019
710108, London Overground from Cheshunt via the Southbury Loop to Liverpool Street, departing from Silver Street on 21st January 2023. This station ...
David Bosher 21/01/2023
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315810, with a London Overground service from Liverpool Street to Cheshunt, arriving at Edmonton Green (formerly Lower Edmonton), on 12th August 2019. ...
David Bosher 12/08/2019
Edmonton Green station, opened by the GER in 1872 and known as Lower Edmonton until 1992, looking north-west towards Enfield Town and Cheshunt, on ...
David Bosher 12/08/2019
Edmonton Green station, which retains its attractive Victorian platform canopies, looking south to Liverpool Street, on 12th August 2019. This station ...
David Bosher 12/08/2019
Exterior of the east side of Edmonton Green station, London Overground since 2015, on 12th August 2019. This station opened as Edmonton on 27th July ...
David Bosher 12/08/2019
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Hackney Down to Clapton





315806, with a London Overground service from Chingford to Liverpool Street, arriving at Clapton station in east London, on 7th September 2019 during ...
David Bosher 07/09/2019
Exterior of Clapton station, east London, on the afternoon of Saturday, 7th September 2019. This station was opened by the GER on 27th May 1872 and ...
David Bosher 07/09/2019
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Seven Sisters Junction to South Tottenham West Junction

Opened 1880.



View from 172001, just departed from South Tottenham station, with a GOBLIN service to Gospel Oak and showing the now-singled spur to the Enfield Town ...
David Bosher 17/01/2019
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