London Area Stations 2009-2023

A collection of my London station pics between the years stated.
David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/W/Westcombe_Park'>Westcombe Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Greenwich_and_Charlton_Line_South_Eastern_Railway'>Greenwich and Charlton Line (South Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Westcombe Park station, south-east London, on 26th September 2009. London's first railway, the London & Greenwich (1836) terminated at the latter and when the North Kent Line opened in 1849 this made a large detour through Lewisham before returning to the south of the Thames at Charlton. It was not until the 1870s that, to shorten the journey to London from places like Woolwich, a new line was built from a junction west of Charlton to Greenwich. This opened between Charlton and Maze Hill in 1873 but the short remaining gap between there and Greenwich had to wait until 1878. Westcombe Park station was added in 1879. Trains still run to central London via the original North Kent route through Lewisham as well as the shorter route through Greenwich. 1/189</p><p>26/09/2009<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harold_Wood'>Harold Wood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Harold Wood station, Essex, originally opened in 1868 and rebuilt with four platforms in 1934 during the final quadrupling of the line between Romford and Shenfield, seen here looking east in the rain on 24th October 2009. The platforms on the fast tracks (right) are no longer in use and, since this photo was taken, the down fast on the right hand side of the central island platform has been fenced off from the up slow on the left. 2/189</p><p>24/10/2009<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harold_Wood'>Harold Wood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>The main entrance building on the road overbridge at the west end of Harold Wood station, Essex, on 24th October 2009. The station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1868 and was rebuilt in 1934 when the LNER, the GER's successor, completed the quadrupling of the line from Romford to Shenfield. The entrance dates from that time. 3/189</p><p>24/10/2009<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Alexandra_Palace'>Alexandra Palace</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Alexandra Palace station in north London, on the GNR main line to and from London King's Cross, on 21st December 2009. This is not to be confused with the original Alexandra Palace station which was right up against the palace walls and closed in 1954. This present station was opened on the GNR main line in 1859 as Wood Green and in 1871 became the junction for the branch to Enfield which was incorporated into the Hertford North Loop in the first part of the 20th Century. For many years, this station was known as Wood Green (Alexandra Park) but the suffix was gradually dropped. The renaming to Alexandra Palace took place in 1982, the ceremony being performed by the late actress and t.v. star Diana Dors. All the Victorian platform buildings have been replaced but it was felt that this original GNR entrance building blended in well with the local neighbourhood and so it escaped the bulldozers. 4/189</p><p>21/12/2009<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>The former ticket office building at Crouch Hill station, now part of the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, which has been out of railway use for very many years, seen here on 2nd December 2010. I can, however, remember when it was open and staffed and buying a half price ticket here when I was a boy, only for the ticket clerk to bark: 'ow old are you, mate?' The exterior of the building was then adorned with British Railways London Midland Region signs all now vanished. The boundary between the London Midland and Eastern Regions was just to the east of here and all the stations from Harringay Stadium (now Harringay Green Lanes) to Barking had blue Eastern Region signs as opposed to the maroon of the London Midland as here at Crouch Hill and also Upper Holloway. 5/189</p><p>02/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hither_Green'>Hither Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/St_Johns_to_Tonbridge_South_Eastern_Railway'>St Johns to Tonbridge (South Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>East side exterior of Hither Green station in south-east London, on the main line to Tonbridge and Hastings and the junction for the Sidcup Loop, seen here on 11th December 2010. The Tonbridge line near here was the scene of an horrendous train crash in November 1967, resulting in fatalities. The late Robin Gibb, one of the singing Gibb brothers who formed that great pop group The Bee Gees in the 1960s and became even more famous in the 70s following the success of the film 'Saturday Night Fever', was on board that train but survived. He vowed he would never go on a train again after that - and he never did.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2284</a> 6/189</p><p>11/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Honor_Oak_Park'>Honor Oak Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Honor Oak Park, south-east London, on 15th October 2011. The line here was opened by the London & Croydon Railway in 1839 but this station was not added until 1st April 1886 by the LB&SCR to serve new suburban development. It is now owned by Transport for London and served by London Overground as well as National Rail Southern services. Not to be confused with the former and now demolished Honor Oak station on the LCDR's Crystal Palace High Level branch, opened in 1865 and closed in 1954 and which paralleled the Croydon line about a mile or so to the west. (Coincidentally, 1954 was also the year the GNR Alexandra Palace branch in north London closed after almost becoming part of the London Underground Northern Line.) 7/189</p><p>15/10/2011<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Clock_House'>Clock House</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Croydon_Branch_Mid-Kent_Railway'>Croydon Branch (Mid-Kent Railway)</a></small></p><p>Station building on road over-bridge at Clock House, on the ex-Mid Kent Line in south-east London, served by Charing Cross to Hayes (Kent) trains and seen here on 17th November 2012. The line was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 1st January 1857 but this station was an 'afterthought', not being opened until 1st May 1890. It is named after a nearby house that was demolished in 1896 but the name is still perpetuated in that of the station. 8/189</p><p>17/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Denmark_Hill'>Denmark Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_London_Line:_Victoria_Approach_and_Brixton_to_Peckham_Rye_Line_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway'>South London Line: Victoria Approach and Brixton to Peckham Rye Line (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>The main line (ex-LCDR) platforms at Denmark Hill, looking towards Victoria, on 9th December 2012. On the left are the ex-LBSCR platforms that became part of London Overground on this very day, spelling the end of the long-established South London Metro service, to the chagrin of many south London residents. The grandiose building on the bridge was severely damaged by fire in 1980 and BR wanted to demolish the remains. However, a campaign spearheaded by Sir John Betjeman fought against this and the building was thankfully renovated. Most of it is now a pub/restaurant. 9/189</p><p>09/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_High_Street'>Clapham High Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines:_Wandsworth_Road_Junction_to_Barrington_Road_Junction_London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway'>New Lines: Wandsworth Road Junction to Barrington Road Junction (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)</a></small></p><p>The entrance to Clapham High Street station on the first day of London Overground services here, 9th December 2012. This station, and the next one west at Wandsworth Road, lost their long-established South London Metro services to both London Bridge and Victoria when they were withdrawn the day before, to much opposition from its passengers. The station was opened by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway as Clapham on 2nd August 1862 and was renamed Clapham High Street in 1989. It is a stone's throw from the LUL Northern Line station at Clapham North but there is no direct pedestrian subway connection between the two, passengers having to walk along the street to get from one to the other. 10/189</p><p>09/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Crouch Hill station on the London Overground GOBLIN, looking south-west towards Gospel Oak in the snow on Sunday, 20th January 2013. This is my local station and I was glad to get home out of the cold. The scene has changed completely here now with the installation of the masts and overhead wires for the line's forthcoming electrification but as of January 2019, us north Londoners are STILL waiting for our electric trains, promised a year or more ago, with the 172 DMUs continuing to run indefinitely - and with a reduced service at weekends, too. 11/189</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Haggerston'>Haggerston</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_London_Railway'>North London Railway</a></small></p><p>Haggerston, London Overground, looking south in the heavy snow that prevailed on the afternoon of Sunday, 20th January 2013. This station opened in April 2010, concurrently with the partial reopening of the former North London Railway's Broad Street viaduct of 1865, linked via a new stretch of track at Shoreditch to the former London Underground East London Line. This is on a site just to the north of the original Haggerston station that closed after heavy WWII bomb damage in 1940. One of its platforms still exists on the left, beyond the station, in the far background. 12/189</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Gospel Oak, looking west, in heavy snow on 20th January 2013. This station was opened as Kentish Town by the Hampstead Junction Railway in 1860 and renamed Gospel Oak in 1867. It was rebuilt in this sturdy style by the London Midland Region of BR in 1955. The bay platform for trains to Barking is down the far end on the right and opened in 1981 on the site of one closed in 1925 (when trains to Chingford were withdrawn) when trains from Barking were diverted here from Kentish Town. 13/189</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Headstone_Lane'>Headstone Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Station building at Headstone Lane, opened on 10th January 1913 on the New Lines of the LNWR, seen here just over 100 years later on 26th January 2013. This station was also served by LUL Bakerloo Line trains that became peak hours only north of Queens Park in 1965 and ceased altogether in 1982. A limited service of Bakerloo trains was reinstated to Stonebridge Park before a regular service was extended to Harrow & Wealdstone, not including Headstone Lane, in 1984. 14/189</p><p>26/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gipsy_Hill'>Gipsy Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway'>West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a></small></p><p>The new footbridge at Gipsy Hill on the Crystal Palace Low Level Line, south-east London, provided during the station's refurbishment in 2009 and seen here looking towards Crystal Palace, on 9th February 2013. 15/189</p><p>09/02/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crystal_Palace'>Crystal Palace</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway'>West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the surviving Low Level station at Crystal Palace, on 9th February 2013. This station opened in 1854 and was totally separate to the grander High Level station of the LBSCR which opened in 1865 as the terminus of the branch from Nunhead. It closed in 1954 and had it been preserved would have served well as a museum but it was sadly demolished in 1961 and a housing estate now covers the site. 16/189</p><p>09/02/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Erith'>Erith</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_Kent_Railway'>North Kent Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Erith, south-east London, one of the original North Kent Railway stations opened with the line on 30th July 1849, seen on 2nd March 2013. The main building is no longer in railway use, intending passengers purchasing tickets from a machine and entering through a gap on the left. 17/189</p><p>02/03/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Falconwood'>Falconwood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bexley_Heath_Railway'>Bexley Heath Railway</a></small></p><p>Falconwood station, on the Bexleyheath Loop, looking towards central London, on 2nd March 2013. This line was a latecomer to the railway geography of south-east London, not opening until 1st May 1895 but Falconwood station was even later, opening on 1st January 1936 to serve new residential development in the area. 18/189</p><p>02/03/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Thames_Ditton'>Thames Ditton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampton_Court_Branch_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Hampton Court Branch (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The up platform at Thames Ditton, the only intermediate station on the short Hampton Court branch, during a short sharp downpour on 4th May 2013. The branch from the main line west of Surbiton to Hampton Court station (on the south side of the Thames, the Palace is on the north) opened in 1849 with Thames Ditton station being opened in 1851. 19/189</p><p>04/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Thames_Ditton'>Thames Ditton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampton_Court_Branch_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Hampton Court Branch (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Thames Ditton on the Hampton Court branch, looking towards Waterloo, on 4th May 2013. The short Hampton Court branch from just west of Surbiton on the LSWR main line was opened in 1849; the terminus station is situated on the south bank of the Thames in the village of East Molesey but was named after the famous palace across the bridge on the north side. Thames Ditton station was added to the line in 1851. 20/189</p><p>04/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Purley_Oaks'>Purley Oaks</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Brighton_Railway'>London and Brighton Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Purley Oaks station in that part of the County of Surrey now absorbed into Greater London, on 18th May 2013. 21/189</p><p>18/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Whyteleafe_South'>Whyteleafe South</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Caterham_Railway'>Caterham Railway</a></small></p><p>Whyteleafe South station, on the Caterham branch in Surrey, looking north towards London, on 18th May 2013. Until 1956, this station was known as Warlingham and is just 600 yards south-west of Upper Warlingham station on the parallel Oxted line. Somehow, the latter's prefix 'Upper' survived the 1956 change at the Caterham Valley line station. 22/189</p><p>18/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Bermondsey'>South Bermondsey</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_London_Railway:_London_Bridge_Approach_London,_Brighton_and_Souh_Coast_Railway'>South London Railway: London Bridge Approach (London, Brighton and Souh Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>The rather unwelcoming - especially at night - entrance to the 1928 station at South Bermondsey in south-east London, opened by the Southern Railway to replace the original 1866 station, slightly to the north-west, seen here on 15th June 2013. The 1866 station was known as Rotherhithe until 1869 when Rotherhithe got a more conveniently-located station on the East London Line, now part of London Overground. This used Sir Marc Brunel's historic Thames Tunnel that had opened in 1843 as a pedestrian footway, having taken 18 years to complete and was the world's first under water tunnel. 23/189</p><p>15/06/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Bermondsey'>South Bermondsey</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_London_Railway:_London_Bridge_Approach_London,_Brighton_and_Souh_Coast_Railway'>South London Railway: London Bridge Approach (London, Brighton and Souh Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>South Bermondsey station looking south on 15th June 2013. The original station was situated just to the north-west of here and opened with the LBSCR South London Line as Rotherhithe on 13th August 1866 and renamed South Bermondsey in 1869, with wooden side platforms on the outside of the three-track viaduct. This was closed as a First World War economy on 1st January 1917 but reopened on 1st May 1919. By the mid 1920s it had fallen into an advanced state of disrepair and, with the lifting of the centre track, the opportunity was taken to provide a new island platform in that space and this opened on 17th June 1928. The 1866 station then closed and nothing now remains. The 1928 station once had a wooden canopy but was removed either in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Until 8th December 2012, this station was also served by the long-established South London Metro service between London Bridge and Victoria but this was discontinued and on the following day most of the line was taken over by the London Overground, reviving a line from Surrey Quays that had closed in 1911 and which joined the South London Line between South Bermondsey and Queens Road Peckham stations. South Bermondsey does, however, remain open with a regular service of trains from London Bridge to other destinations in south and south-east London. 24/189</p><p>15/06/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chingford'>Chingford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chingford_Branch_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Chingford Branch (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Chingford station on 7th September 2013. This is the terminus of the purely suburban line from Liverpool Street, which was taken over by London Overground on 31st May 2015. It opened by the GER on 2nd September 1878, replacing an earlier station of 1873 half a mile to the south when the line was extended and it was originally intended to continue further beyond here to a terminus at High Beech, an upland plateau and recreation area in Epping Forest but only a few yards were built and until the line was electrified in 1960, this served as an engine dock. It was swept away in 1968 to make way for a new bus station that replaced the one half a mile further on at the Royal Forest Hotel. At the same time, the platforms that had been linked by a subway were linked by a new walkway across the site of the engine dock and the subway was closed. In 1882, Queen Victoria arrived at this station to formally declare Epping Forest open to the public for all time. 25/189</p><p>07/09/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/O/Oakleigh_Park'>Oakleigh Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Oakleigh Park, a north London suburban station on the ECML opened on 1st December 1873 and rebuilt with two island platforms in 1892. This view is looking south to King's Cross, 8 miles and 30 chains away, on 30th November 2013, one day before the station's 140th anniversary. Only the outer edges of the two island platforms are used by the all-stations service to and from Welwyn Garden City and since this photo was taken, the platforms on the centre fast tracks have been fenced off, making it a touch more difficult to photograph express trains storming through with the same situation at New Southgate, New Barnet, Brookmans Park and Knebworth stations. 26/189</p><p>30/11/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chiswick'>Chiswick</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hounslow_Loop_Windsor,_Staines_and_South_Western_Richmond_to_Windsor_Railway'>Hounslow Loop (Windsor, Staines and South Western (Richmond to Windsor) Railway)</a></small></p><p>Chiswick station, on the Hounslow Loop, looking towards Hounslow on 25th January 2014. This station opened on 22nd August 1849 with the first section of the LSWR's Hounslow Loop from the Richmond line at Barnes to a temporary station called Hounslow, but actually situated north-east of the present Isleworth station. The line was extended to Hounslow itself, and on to a triangular junction between Whitton and Feltham on the Reading line, on 1st February 1850, when the temporary terminus was abolished and replaced by the present Isleworth station. 27/189</p><p>25/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Lee'>Lee</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Dartford_Loop_South_Eastern_Railway'>Dartford Loop (South Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Lee station, south-east London, looking towards Dartford on 1st March 2014. This station was opened with the Dartford via Sidcup Loop from Hither Green to Dartford on 1st September 1866. 28/189</p><p>01/03/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Marylebone'>Marylebone</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Marylebone_Station_Great_Central_Railway'>Marylebone Station (Great Central Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Marylebone station, opened to coal traffic on 27th July 1898 and to passengers on 15th March 1899 by the Great Central Railway, and seen here just after 8am on 18th March 2014. Now the London terminus of Chiltern Railways, after surviving two earlier closure attempts. The station is also served by the LUL Bakerloo Line. 29/189</p><p>18/03/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tottenham_Court_Road_EL'>Tottenham Court Road [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Behind this hoarding at Tottenham Court Road, in the heart of central London, works are taking place to enlarge the station (currently served by the LU Central and Northern Lines) for Crossrail, seen here on 11th April 2014. Crossrail should have opened in December 2018, put back to autumn 2019 and then put back again to either late 2020 or early 2021. But with this terrible coronavirus pandemic, there is no telling now when the line will actually open. 30/189</p><p>11/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Park'>Battersea Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Victoria_Station_and_Pimlico_Railway_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway;_London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway;_Great_Western_Railway;_London_and_North_Western_Railway,'>Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; London, Chatham and Dover Railway; Great Western Railway; London and North Western Railway,)</a></small></p><p>The former South London Metro platforms at Battersea Park station. This ostensibly closed in December 2010 when London Overground took over most of the South London Line from Queens Road Peckham to Wandsworth Road with trains then being diverted over a former freight link to Clapham Junction, thus ending the long-established Victoria to London Bridge service to much criticism. However, one track from Wandsworth Road into Battersea Park has been retained and, very occasionally, whenever LO trains are unable to serve Clapham Junction, they are diverted here over the former Victoria bound track, now bi-directional. This view is looking south-east on 17th May 2014. 31/189</p><p>17/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bellingham'>Bellingham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Shortlands_and_Nunhead_Railway'>Shortlands and Nunhead Railway</a></small></p><p>Bellingham station on the Catford Loop between Nunhead and Shortlands in south-east London, looking south-east towards Shortlands, on 10th May 2014. This line and station were latecomers to the London railway map, not opening until 1st July 1892.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2298</a> 32/189</p><p>10/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Beckenham_Hill'>Beckenham Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Shortlands_and_Nunhead_Railway'>Shortlands and Nunhead Railway</a></small></p><p>Beckenham Hill, on the Catford Loop in south-east London, looking north on 10th May 2014. This line and station were latecomers to London's railway geography, not opening until 1st July 1892. This view is seen through the upstairs side windows of preserved RML 2760, the very last traditional Routemaster bus built for London Transport in 1968, returning from Elmers End to Catford Bus Garage during the latter's Open Day. 33/189</p><p>10/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/New_Southgate'>New Southgate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>New Southgate, a London suburban station at the southern end of the ECML, served by services to and from Welwyn Garden City and with the platforms on the fast tracks now fenced off, looking north on 11th February 2017. This is one of the original stations on the GNR's London extension, opened on 7th August 1850 as Colney Hatch & Southgate, renamed Southgate & Colney Hatch on 1st February 1855, further renamed New Southgate for Colney Hatch on 1st March 1883, yet again renamed New Southgate & Friern Barnet on 1st May 1923 and finally to simply New Southgate on 18th March 1971. The original ticket office which spanned the tracks and platforms was destroyed by fire in 1976. 34/189</p><p>18/02/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/White_Hart_Lane'>White Hart Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Obsolete boarded-up waiting rooms on the Liverpool Street-bound platform at White Hart Lane station, north London, on 4th May 2018. This station opened in 1872 and became part of London Overground in 2015. 35/189</p><p>04/05/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Road'>Camden Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>The refurbished ticket hall at Camden Road station, north London, now part of London Overground, on 5th January 2019. 36/189</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Road'>Camden Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>The splendid Victorian entrance building to Camden Road station, north London, now part of London Overground, on 5th January 2019. This was opened on 7th December 1850 as Camden Town by the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway (renamed to the much more simple North London Railway in 1853) and was renamed Camden Road exactly 100 years later in 1950. The old name is still engraved on the walls above the windows. 37/189</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Road'>Camden Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Looking north up Camden Road with the North London Railway bridge and Camden Road station (on left) in background, now part of London Overground, on 5th January 2019. 38/189</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Road'>Camden Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>A closer view of the magnificent entrance to Camden Road station, now part of London Overground, showing the original name of the station, Camden Town, which it bore from its opening in 1850 until renamed 100 years later, seen here on 5th January 2019. 39/189</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kentish_Town_West'>Kentish Town West</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Entrance to Kentish Town West station, now part of London Overground, on 5th January 2019. This station was added to the Hampstead Junction Railway of 1860 in 1867; the platforms and buildings were wooden and had fallen into an advanced state of disrepair by the mid-1960s, rich in dusty unused waiting rooms. Very atmospheric with the then rattly Class 501 EMUs on what was then BR's Broad Street to Richmond line, listed for closure by Beeching. After the line was reprieved, the station was burned down by vandals in 1971. It wasn't until 1981 that new platforms were opened here, trains running non-stop between Camden Road and Gospel Oak stations for ten years. 40/189</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kentish_Town_West'>Kentish Town West</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The 1981 station at Kentish Town West, now part of London Overground and devoid of any aesthetic quality, looking towards Stratford on 5th January 2019. The original 1867 station with its wooden platforms, waiting rooms and canopies, was burned down by brain-bypassed vandals in 1971 and for 10 years there was no station here. 41/189</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon'>Farringdon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>New entrance to Farringdon station, opposite the original, on 22nd January 2019. Passengers should have been travelling on the first section of Crossrail for at least a month by this date, however that was first put back to autumn 2019 and then put back indefinitely even further and now, in January 2022, we are STILL waiting, more than THREE YEARS LATE. Just exactly when will it open? Your guess is as good as mine. 42/189</p><p>22/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Drayton_Park'>Drayton Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_and_City_Railway'>Great Northern and City Railway</a></small></p><p>Drayton Park, looking north, on 2nd February 2019. On the left is the site of the now demolished GNCR depot and on the right and at a slightly higher level, the Canonbury spur from Finsbury Park to the North London Line, freight only since the last services to Broad Street were withdrawn in 1976 and now singled. There were no platforms on the Canonbury spur despite its close proximity to the station. 43/189</p><p>02/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Drayton_Park'>Drayton Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_and_City_Railway'>Great Northern and City Railway</a></small></p><p>Drayton Park, looking across to the site of the former Great Northern & City Railway depot (which became a London Undergound depot), marked by more than forty years' growth of bushes and weeds, on 2nd February 2019. 44/189</p><p>02/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Drayton_Park'>Drayton Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_and_City_Railway'>Great Northern and City Railway</a></small></p><p>Drayton Park, looking south towards the tunnels and the steep staircase, on 2nd February 2019. After the scheme to link this line to the Alexandra Palace branch was aborted, it remained as an Underground shuttle branch of the Northern Line from Moorgate to Finsbury Park until October 1964 when the Drayton Park to Finsbury Park section was closed for building the Victoria Line, the ex-GNCR tunnels at Finsbury Park being taken over by westbound Piccadilly Line trains which became cross-platform with southbound Victoria Line trains when the first section of that line opened in 1968. It was not until 8th November 1976 that trains ran again between Finsbury Park and Drayton Park with electrification of the ex-GNR suburban services. 45/189</p><p>02/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harringay'>Harringay</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>What passes for Harringay station these days is a paltry shadow of its former self. This one-time island platform has been reduced to the outer edge only for down local trains to Welwyn Garden City or Watton-at-Stone or Stevenage, the latter two via Hertford North. The graffiti-scarred building seen here replaced the original when the London Suburban GNR services were electrified in 1976 and has obviously seen better days. A similar demolition job was also done on the southbound platform. This view is on 9th February 2019. 46/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hanwell'>Hanwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Hanwell, looking east towards Paddington, on 9th February 2019. The main up and down fast lines are to the right of the fence, blocking off access to the other side of the central island platform. The down platform on the fast lines was removed many years ago. The sign on the up platform shows 'Hanwell and Elthorne', the name of the station from 1896 to 1974. 47/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hanwell'>Hanwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Hanwell, on the GWR main line in west London, looking west from the up platform on 9th February 2019. The period 'subway' sign is a nice feature. 48/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Drayton_Green'>Drayton Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Greenford_Loop_Great_Western_Railway'>Greenford Loop (Great Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Drayton Green station (platform for West Ealing trains), west London seen from 165135 departing for Greenford, looking back on 9th February 2019. I was the only passenger the whole way to Greenford. 49/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Castle_Bar_Park'>Castle Bar Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Greenford_Loop_Great_Western_Railway'>Greenford Loop (Great Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>A deserted Castle Bar Park (West Ealing bound platform), seen from 165135 on a service to Greenford, on 9th February 2019. 50/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Greenford'>South Greenford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>The sleepiness of South Greenford <I>station</I> is briefly disturbed by the arrival of the ex-13.31 service from West Ealing to Greenford in the opposite platform on 9th February 2019. Though the line opened for goods in 1903 and passengers in 1904, this establishment was not opened until 20th September 1926 as South Greenford Halt and, until quite recent times, was still graced with GWR pagoda-style waiting shelters. The platforms (now also replaced) originally came from Trumpers Crossing (Osterley Park) Halte (sic) on the Southall to Brentford branch, which had closed on 1st February 1926 although the line stayed open for passengers until 4th May 1942 and is still partially open for freight. The Brentford branch is currently being considered for reopening to passengers. 51/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Greenford'>South Greenford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>South Greenford 'station' nameboard on the West Ealing to Greenford branch, on 9th February 2019. West Perivale, in smaller font, is a fairly recent addition to the station's name. The platforms are accessed by two steep ramps either side of the railway, to and from the major A40 Western Avenue trunk road that the line crosses on viaduct immediately to the north. 52/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Acton_Central'>Acton Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway'>North and South Western Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>The grand Victorian entrance to Acton Central, opened in 1853 and now part of London Overground, on 9th February 2019. Only the doorway on the left of the main building is now used by passengers, the rest is now a pub/restaurant. The west London suburb of Acton has more railway stations than any other in the Capital: Acton Central and South Acton on the London Overground, East Acton, North Acton and West Acton on the Central Line and Acton Main Line on the GWR. Neighbouring Ealing runs it a close second with Ealing Broadway on the GWR, Central and Piccadilly Lines, West Ealing on the GWR, Ealing Common on the District and Piccadilly Lines and North Ealing and South Ealing on the Piccadilly Line. 53/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Acton_Central'>Acton Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway'>North and South Western Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Acton Central, dating from 1853, platform for trains to Richmond, on 9th February 2019. This is a replacement canopy for the original but in the same style. Churchfield Road level crossing is just to the left. 54/189</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Manor_Park'>Manor Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Manor Park, east London, looking east on 13th February 2019. These buildings replaced the original in 1949 as part of the electrification of the line for suburban services from Liverpool Street as far as Shenfield. In the far background, the new footbridge and walkway to the 1873 ticket hall is now in use but work is still proceeding on the lifts to give step free access. The obsolete main line platforms on the fast tracks (left) are now fenced off. Just to the east of this station, the Ilford flyover, that was ready in 1947, switches the local lines from the south side of the alignment to the north with the fast tracks passing beneath. 55/189</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead_Park'>Wanstead Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>The entrance to Wanstead Park station, on what is now the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, is tucked into one of the 384 arches of the ex-Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway viaduct, which line opened from the Hampstead Junction Railway at South Tottenham to the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway at Woodgrange Park, on 9th July 1894. The viaduct runs from just east of Wanstead Park station to just east of Walthamstow Queen's Road station, trains ascending or descending from and to the latter via a steep incline. This view from the south side is on the bright but still quite cold morning of 13th February 2019. [Ref query 14 February 2019] 56/189</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gidea_Park'>Gidea Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Gidea Park, on the ex-GER main line, looking east on 13th February 2019. It was opened by the GER as Squirrel's Heath & Gidea Park on 1st December 1910, to serve new residential housing to the east of the Essex market town of Romford, now part of Greater east London. In 1913 the names were switched to Gidea Park & Squirrel's Heath with the Squirrel's Heath suffix dropped in 1969. This is the only station on the quadrupled section of the GER from Liverpool Street to comprise two island platforms, originally two up and down platforms which became islands with the final quadrupling of the line from Romford to Shenfield (which included the notorious Brentwood bank) in 1934. Those on the left are for the slow lines and on the right the fast. On 2nd January 1947, Gidea Park was the scene of a fatal crash when, after dark and in thick fog, a Liverpool Street to Peterborough train passed a signal at danger and collided with the rear of a stopping train to Southend Victoria that was departing. The rear three coaches of the Southend train were destroyed and seven people lost their lives with forty five seriously injured. 57/189</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Goodmayes'>Goodmayes</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Goodmayes, in that part of Essex now within Greater London, looking west towards Liverpool Street on 13th February 2019. The line here was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1839 but this station was not opened until 8th February 1901 by the ECR's successor, the Great Eastern Railway. Quadrupling of the main line as far as Shenfield was not completed until 1934 with the final section from Romford, that included the notorious Brentwood bank, by the London & North Eastern Railway that succeeded the GER at the 1923 Grouping. Out of view on the left are the fast tracks and obsolete platforms that are now fenced off from the surviving platforms. 58/189</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crofton_Park'>Crofton Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Shortlands_and_Nunhead_Railway'>Shortlands and Nunhead Railway</a></small></p><p>Crofton Park, south-east London, looking north on 16th February 2019. This station opened with the Catford Loop from Shortlands to Nunhead on 1st July 1892. 59/189</p><p>16/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Dulwich'>North Dulwich</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Peckham_Rye_to_Sutton_Line_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway'>Peckham Rye to Sutton Line (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>The fine entrance building to North Dulwich station in south London, opened with the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway's line from Peckham Rye to Sutton on 1st October 1868, seen here just over 150 years later on 16th February 2019. The station was designed by Charles Barry, Jr. (1823-1900), eldest son of Charles Barry (1795-1860) who designed the Houses of Parliament at Westminster in 1866. 60/189</p><p>16/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Dulwich'>North Dulwich</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Peckham_Rye_to_Sutton_Line_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway'>Peckham Rye to Sutton Line (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>Entrance to North Dulwich station, south London, opened 1st October 1868, on 16th February 2019. Shame about the graffiti. 61/189</p><p>16/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Dulwich'>North Dulwich</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Peckham_Rye_to_Sutton_Line_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway'>Peckham Rye to Sutton Line (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>North Dulwich station, south London, on the former LBSCR's Peckham Rye to Sutton line opened in 1868, looking south on 16th February 2019. 62/189</p><p>16/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hampton_Court'>Hampton Court</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampton_Court_Branch_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Hampton Court Branch (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The end of the line at Hampton Court station, on 23rd February 2019 when the temperature in the London area reached 17C, unbelievable for the time of year. Ice cream vans outside the entrance to Hampton Court Palace were doing a roaring trade! 63/189</p><p>23/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hampton_Court'>Hampton Court</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampton_Court_Branch_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Hampton Court Branch (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Hampton Court, opened on 1st February 1849, seen here just over 170 years later on 23rd February 2019. This station is on the south side of the Thames in the village of East Molesey; Hampton Court Palace is on the north side across the bridge designed by Edward Lutyens when the road was realigned in the 1930s. 64/189</p><p>23/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Meridian_Water'>Meridian Water</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>View south from the noisy North Circular Road viaduct across the Lea Valley Line at Edmonton in north London, showing the new Meridian Water station under construction on 29th March 2019. On the left is the bay platform for the new shuttle service to Stratford that will begin concurrently with the station's opening in May 2019 - unless, like Crossrail, there are any delays that go on forever. The existing station at Angel Road, on the north side of the North Circular Road but not accessible from it, will then close. 65/189</p><p>29/03/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Meridian_Water'>Meridian Water</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>The new Meridian Water station, still under construction, seen from the south end of the doomed Angel Road station, on 29th March 2019. The station is due to open on 19th May 2019 when Angel Road will close. According to the latest edition of 'Today's Railways' magazine, Meridian Water will at first only be served by the same number of trains currently calling at Angel Road - which means that for most of the day, people wishing to visit the retail outlets for which the new station is ideally placed, will still have to make their way by bus, which is a bit ridiculous. The vast area of current wasteland on the west side of the line at this location is earmarked for new housing so, presumably, when that is completed, Meridian Water's service will be upgraded to all day. Also, the new shuttle service from the bay platform to Stratford that was supposed to start with the station's opening in May, is now not going to start until September 2019 as also indicated in the report in 'Today's Railways'. Will the station actually open in May - or will there be another delay, a la Crossrail? 66/189</p><p>29/03/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Meridian_Water'>Meridian Water</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Meridian Water station, due to open in May 2019, seen here from the north-east on the beautiful spring-like morning of 29th March 2019. The current station at Angel Road, just to the north and the least-used in all London, will then close. 67/189</p><p>29/03/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harringay'>Harringay</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The remaining side of the northbound island platform at Harringay station, looking south towards King's Cross, on 18th April 2019. The single track curve in the background on the right leads down to a connection with the London Overground GOBLIN line just east of Crouch Hill station and is normally used only by freight and empty stock workings to and from Bounds Green depot. However, on 4th May 2019, the spur was traversed by UK Railtours 'The Amber Valley Venturer' from Victoria to the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley and on which I was able to secure a seat. Shame it didn't stop at Crouch Hill which is my local station and would have given me an extra hour or so in bed but then I'd have missed the enjoyment of the roundabout journey from Victoria up the West London Line! 68/189</p><p>18/04/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chislehurst'>Chislehurst</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/St_Johns_to_Tonbridge_South_Eastern_Railway'>St Johns to Tonbridge (South Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the 1868 station at Chislehurst, Kent, looking south along Station Approach on 27th April 2019.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2068</a> 69/189</p><p>27/04/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Northumberland_Park_London'>Northumberland Park [London]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>The rebuilt Northumberland Park station on the Lea Valley Line, with - surprise, surprise - a ubiquitous bus stop style waiting shelter - looking north along the new bi-directional line towards Meridian Water, whose opening has been delayed, on the evening of Friday, 17th May 2019. This new track is on the site of the two lifted tracks that were removed when the Lea Valley Line was reduced from quadruple to double track at the tail end of the 1960s. <br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2085</a> 70/189</p><p>17/05/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Meridian_Water'>Meridian Water</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the ticket hall at London's newest station, Meridian Water, on opening day, Monday 3rd June 2019. 71/189</p><p>03/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Meridian_Water'>Meridian Water</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>The new Meridian Water station on opening day, Monday, 3rd June 2019, looking north from the up platform towards the now closed Angel Road station, just a few yards away and with the bay platform for the intended shuttle service to Stratford on the right. The start of this service has been delayed until September 2019. 72/189</p><p>03/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tottenham_Hale'>Tottenham Hale</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>The always busy entrance to the National Rail station at Tottenham Hale, on the Lea Valley Line, on 12th August 2019. This station was opened as Tottenham by the Northern & Eastern Railway from Stratford to Broxbourne on 15th September 1840 which was leased to the Eastern Counties Railway in 1844 and became part of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. It was renamed Tottenham Hale on 1st September 1968 when it became an interchange with the then new LUL Victoria Line. 73/189</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edmonton_Green'>Edmonton Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 1872 when the line was extended from Stoke Newington to a connection with the Angel Road to Enfield Town line just north-west of the station and was renamed Lower Edmonton (High Level) on 1st July 1883. The original Edmonton station of 1849 on the line from Angel Road, which was to the left where the road roundabout now is, became Lower Edmonton (Low Level) at the same time; after this closed to passengers in 1939, the high level suffix was dropped from the surviving station. In 1992, the name Edmonton Green was chosen to define the area more correctly and this became the name of the station although my research has been unable to discover the exact date the station was renamed. 74/189</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edmonton_Green'>Edmonton Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Edmonton Green station, which retains its attractive Victorian platform canopies, looking south to Liverpool Street, on 12th August 2019. This station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1872 and was known as Lower Edmonton for many years until renamed Edmonton Green in 1992. It is the junction for the lines to Enfield Town and Cheshunt which were transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia to Transport for London as part of London Overground in May 2015. The low level station on the original 1849 Eastern Counties Railway route to Enfield from Angel Road closed in 1939 and all trace of this has completely disappeared. 75/189</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edmonton_Green'>Edmonton Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 12th August 2019. Just beyond the station, the 1872 route made a connection with the original Eastern Counties Railway route of 1849 from Angel Road while further north west at Bury Street Junction, the Southbury Loop of 1891 diverges to Cheshunt. This opened as the Churchbury Loop in 1891 but suffered from tramway competition and closed to passengers in 1909 but reopened during the First World War only to close again in 1919. It was fully reopened in November 1960 with the electrification of the north-east London routes from Liverpool Street with three reopened stations, Southbury (formerly Churchbury), Turkey Street (formerly Forty Hill) and Theobald's Grove, the only one to retain its original name. 76/189</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Meridian_Water'>Meridian Water</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the new Meridian Water station on the Lea Valley Line in north London. Photograph taken through the window of a TfL bus on route 192 from Tottenham Hale to Enfield, on 12th August 2019, just over two months since the station opened on 3rd June after a series of delays. Its opening saw the demise of the nearby Angel Road station that had served the area since 1840. 77/189</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/London_Fields'>London Fields</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 on 31st August 2019. The station is served by trains to Enfield Town and Cheshunt which, along with the line to Chingford, became part of London Overground on 31st May 2015. Chingford trains do not normally call here, passing by on the fast tracks on the east side of the viaduct which are without platforms as is the case at Cambridge Heath station, the next stop south towards Liverpool Street. Greater Anglia trains to Cambridge and the Stansted Express trains also serve these tracks. 78/189</p><p>31/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Rectory_Road'>Rectory Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Southbound platform at Rectory Road station, north London, originally opened by the GER in 1872 and part of London Overground since 2015, with the rather ghastly buildings on both the platform and road overbridge that replaced the original Victorian structures in the mid-1980s, on the afternoon of Saturday, 31st August 2019. The station entrance/exit building is not on Rectory Road at all, being actually round the corner on Evering Road.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2152</a> 79/189</p><p>31/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Rectory_Road'>Rectory Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Rectory Road station, with replacement waiting shelters for the original Victorian structures, looking north on 31st August 2019. This station serves an area of residential streets in the southern part of the north London district of Stoke Newington, where I was born, and opened on 27th May 1872 with the first stage of the GER's new line from Bethnal Green as far as Stoke Newington and which was extended to Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green) and a junction with the ex-Eastern Counties Angel Road to Enfield line, on 27th July 1872. 80/189</p><p>31/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bruce_Grove'>Bruce Grove</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 31st May 2015, looking south on 31st August 2019. The station opened on 22nd July 1872 with the extension of the line from Stoke Newington to Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green). The waiting rooms here are boarded-up and obsolete. 81/189</p><p>31/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapton'>Clapton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 has been part of London Overground since 31st May 2015. Stansted Express and Greater Anglia trains to and from London Liverpool Street pass through non-stop.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2155</a> 82/189</p><p>07/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Northumberland_Park_London'>Northumberland Park [London]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>The rebuilt Northumberland Park station on the Lea Valley Line in the Tottenham district of north London, looking north, on 9th September 2019. On the right is the new bi-directional third platform (ludicrously numbered platform 4) for the new Stratford to Meridian Water shuttle service that began operations on this day. 83/189</p><p>09/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Northumberland_Park_London'>Northumberland Park [London]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Looking north along the new bi-directional platform at Northumberland Park station for the Stratford to Meridian Water shuttle, with the main Lea Valley Line platforms on the left, on Monday, 9th September 2019. The new service referred to began operations on this day. 84/189</p><p>09/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/White_Hart_Lane'>White Hart Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 the London Overground Liverpool Street to Enfield Town/Cheshunt line, seen here on 27th September 2019. The new entrance opened on 26th August 2019 and, since taking this photo, this former entrance has been demolished. (See my photos, image nos. 1611 and 1615, for views of the new entrance.) 85/189</p><p>27/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/White_Hart_Lane'>White Hart Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 month later. The station was originally opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 22nd July 1872 with the extension from Stoke Newington to a junction with the Enfield Town branch of 1849 at Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green). Lifts have also been installed giving step free access to and from the platforms at this station for the first time - but, surprise surprise, the one to the down platform (which I wanted to use) was 'out of order' on this day. 86/189</p><p>27/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/White_Hart_Lane'>White Hart Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>New entrance, giving access to an enlarged and much improved ticket hall, at White Hart Lane station, north London, on 27th September 2019. 87/189</p><p>27/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Silver_Street'>Silver Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 July 1872 and has, with the line, been part of London Overground since 31st May 2015. Demolition by British Rail of the Victorian buildings on the down platform (right) have given the station a rather unfortunate lopsided appearance. The down platform now has the most paltry of waiting shelters, not even one of the ubiquitous bus stop style ones, and which offers little protection from the elements, especially when the rain slants down as it started to do while I was waiting there on this day. 88/189</p><p>27/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Palmers_Green'>Palmers Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Enfield_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>Enfield Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The delightful GNR style entrance to Palmers Green station, north London, on 27th September 2019. This station was opened in 1871 on the GNR's branch from Wood Green (now Alexandra Palace) to Enfield that was extended in the second decade of the 20th Century back to the main line at Stevenage to form the Hertford North Loop. It was electrified in November 1976.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2166</a> 89/189</p><p>27/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Brondesbury'>Brondesbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>If the entrance to Brondesbury station is uninspiring, the platforms are even less so, as seen in this view looking east on 5th October 2019. This is one of the original stations of the Hampstead Junction Railway, opened with the line on 2nd January 1860 and it went through several name changes in its first 23 years. Edgware Road (Kilburn) on opening became simply Edgware Road on 1st October 1865. In 1872, it was further renamed Edgware Road & Brondesbury but still this did not satisfy the LNWR Directors and in 1873 it became Brondesbury (Edgware Road). Edgware Road was finally dropped altogether when, on 1st May 1883, it became simply Brondesbury and has remained so to the present day. This was once part of the Broad Street to Richmond Line, infamously listed for closure in the 1963 Beeching Report but was eventually saved and since becoming part of London Overground in 2007, it now carries far more passengers than it ever did. 90/189</p><p>05/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Brondesbury'>Brondesbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>A short distance south of the LUL Jubilee Line station at Kilburn along Edgware Road, is the rather uninspiring entrance to the London Overground station at Brondesbury, seen here on the 5th October 2019. Edgware Road here is part of Kilburn High Road, along which centurions would have trudged as it follows the line of the Roman Watling Street. 91/189</p><p>05/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_Railway'>Great Northern Railway</a></small></p><p>The new western concourse at London Kings Cross station, opened in March 2012 and built onto the side of Lewis Cubitt's 1852 terminus, seen here on the afternoon of Saturday, 5th October 2019. 92/189</p><p>05/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Emerson_Park'>Emerson Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/U/Upminster_to_Romford_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Upminster to Romford Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>Emerson Park on the Romford to Upminster branch, looking towards Romford, on 24th October 2019. This short branch line was opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway in 1893 but Emerson Park Halt did not open until 1909 and despite the UK-wide abolition of the term 'halt' by British Rail in the 1970s, here the word Halt appeared on running-in boards until quite recent times. On 31st May 2015 this line, somewhat curiously, became a completely detached part of the London Overground network. 93/189</p><p>24/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Grange_Park'>Grange Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Enfield_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>Enfield Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Grange Park station on the GNR Hertford North Loop, now in commercial use, on 30th October 2019. The station is still open and passengers enter and exit through the gate on the right. Although situated on the original 1871 section of the GNR's Enfield branch, the station did not open until 1910 when the line was extended from Enfield to Cuffley during the first stage of its incorporation into the Hertford North Loop. To avoid a level crossing at Enfield, the extension began just to the south and to the east of the tracks leading to the 1871 terminus to enable the new line to gain height and cross Windmill Hill by bridge with a new station at Enfield (later Enfield Chase). Grange Park station was opened at the same time. The site of the 1871 station at Enfield became a goods yard and carriage sidings which survived for many years but all were swept away in the 1970s and a vast housing estate now covers the entire site,<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2186</a> 94/189</p><p>30/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Winchmore_Hill'>Winchmore Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Enfield_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>Enfield Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The typically Great Northern Railway station entrance to Winchmore Hill, north London, on 16th November 2019. This was opened by the GNR in 1871 with their branch from the main line at Wood Green (now Alexandra Palace) to Enfield, which was extended in the second decade of the 20th Century back to the main line at Stevenage to form the Hertford North Loop. 95/189</p><p>16/11/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Winchmore_Hill'>Winchmore Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Enfield_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>Enfield Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Winchmore Hill station, north London, on the Hertford North Loop, looking south with the back of the original 1871 station building on the bridge and the replacement canopies dating from the 1970s on the platforms, on 16th November 2019. 96/189</p><p>16/11/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Winchmore_Hill'>Winchmore Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Enfield_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>Enfield Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Notice to passengers below running-in board at Winchmore Hill station, on 16th November 2019. While some trains do run through to Stevenage at weekends, several still terminate at Watton-at-Stone which is not made clear from the notice. 97/189</p><p>16/11/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harringay'>Harringay</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The remaining outer side of the former northbound island platform at Harringay station looking north on 21st November 2019. This station was added to the GNR's London Extension of 1850 on 1st May 1885 as Harringay and was renamed Harringay West on 18th June 1951. The original and much more grand ticket office on the bridge suffered severe fire damage in the early 1960s and by 1969 the remains had been replaced by a small timber shack which is still there today. The station reverted to its original name on 27th May 1971; the inner half of this platform on the down fast track was abolished when the London suburban services were electrified on and from 8th November 1976, leaving the station a shadow of its former self. 98/189</p><p>21/11/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harrow_and_Wealdstone'>Harrow and Wealdstone</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Birmingham_Railway'>London and Birmingham Railway</a></small></p><p>Looking across the platforms at Harrow & Wealdstone station on 18 December 2019. View from 710257 calling with a London Overground Watford Junction to Euston service.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2219</a> 99/189</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Kenton'>South Kenton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>South Kenton station, served by London Overground services from Euston to Watford Junction and Bakerloo Line services from Elephant & Castle to Harrow & Wealdstone, looking north on 18th December 2019. This station has an island platform alongside the WCML and is situated on the LNWR 'New Lines' of 1913, although it did not open until 3rd July 1933, two days after the inauguration of the London Passenger Transport Board. 100/189</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Hampstead'>West Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The London Overground station at West Hampstead has recently been rebuilt at a cost of £12.5 million. This view is looking east on 18th December 2019 with the new footbridge between the platforms and a brand new entrance. 101/189</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Hampstead'>West Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The rebuilding of the London Overground station at West Hampstead, costing £12.5 million, was virtually completed on 14th October 2019 with the inauguration of the lifts to the two platforms. All that remains now is the demolition of the original station entrance, dating from the it's opening in 1888 (the line, the ex-Hampstead Junction Railway, had opened in 1860) on West End Lane bridge and widening of the pavement in front of the new entrance but the original was still in situ when this view, looking east, was taken on 18th December 2019; however, the building was still there during a visit on 3rd February 2020 and furthermore still issuing tickets even though there is no access to the platforms from here. The station was originally called West End Lane until 1975. 102/189</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Seven_Sisters'>Seven Sisters</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>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 was rebuilt and became an interchange with the LU Victoria Line in 1968. At the same time, the original street level entrance on West Green Road, at the far north end on the right in the background, was closed and its street level building demolished. The Palace Gates branch, which had its own platforms diverging north-west at the south end of the station, was closed to passengers in 1963 and to freight in 1964 and those platforms are now completely demolished, as are the branch stations at West Green, Noel Park & Wood Green and Palace Gates (Wood Green). 103/189</p><p>01/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/White_Hart_Lane'>White Hart Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>I visited White Hart Lane in September 2019 to photograph the new station entrance, opened the previous month and a vast improvement, and at that time the old entrance was still in place. It has since been demolished as seen in this view on 1st January 2020. 104/189</p><p>01/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Turkey_Street'>Turkey Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Churchbury_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Churchbury Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Turkey Street station, in a residential area of Enfield, looking south on 1st January 2020. It was opened as Forty Hill by the GER on its new Churchbury Loop from Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green) to Cheshunt on 1st October 1891 and also with stations at Churchbury and Theobalds Grove. After the opening of a tramway to Waltham Cross along the parallel Hertford Road in 1904, this took a lot of the Loop's passenger traffic and it was closed on 1st October 1909. It reopened for four years during WWI for munitions workers at the factories on Hertford Road and this also included a new halt at Carterhatch Lane. After 1919, the line was little-used until it was suddenly reopened and electrified on 21st November 1960 as part of the north-east London electrification scheme that included the Enfield Town and Chingford lines. The three long disused stations were all reopened with Churchbury renamed Southbury (with the line being renamed the Southbury Loop) and Forty Hill renamed Turkey Street, only Theobalds Grove retaining its original name. However Carterhatch Lane was not reopened, despite much residential development in its catchment area since 1919. 105/189</p><p>01/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Turkey_Street'>Turkey Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Churchbury_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Churchbury Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>New entrance, opened in 2017, at Turkey Street station, Southbury Loop, London Overground since 2015, on 1st January 2020. This station opened in 1891 as Forty Hill, closed with line 1909, reopened 1915, closed again 1919, reopened permanently 1960 and renamed Turkey Street. 106/189</p><p>01/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Finchley_Road_and_Frognal'>Finchley Road and Frognal</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The nothing-to-write-home about rebuilt station at Finchley Road & Frognal, now part of London Overground, looking east towards the western portal of the 1166 yards long Hampstead Tunnel, on 4th January 2020, two days after the line's 160th anniversary. This was one of the original stations of the Hampstead Junction Railway opened on 2nd January 1860 and is one of the lucky ones to have survived the British Rail mania in the 1970s for shortening station names with an '&' in them. 107/189</p><p>04/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kensal_Rise'>Kensal Rise</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Kensal Rise station, London Overground, showing the building that replaced the original and which resembles more a public convenience than a station, looking east on 4th January 2020. This is on what was originally the Hampstead Junction Railway that celebrated its 160th birthday two days before this photo was taken although this station was not opened until 1873 as Kensal Green, replacing a station slightly to the west that had opened in 1861 as Kensal Green & Harlesden. The station was renamed Kensal Rise in 1890. 108/189</p><p>04/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_Railway'>Great Northern Railway</a></small></p><p>The frontage of King's Cross station, designed by Lewis Cubitt for the Great Northern Railway's London Extension and opened in 1852 (trains had used a temporary terminus just to the north at Maiden Lane for two years before it was ready), seen through the front upstairs windows of a 'New Routemaster' bus on route 390 from Archway to Victoria, on 15th January 2020. 109/189</p><p>15/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_Railway'>Great Northern Railway</a></small></p><p>Lewis Cubitt's King's Cross station, opened in 1852 for the Great Northern Railway, seen here on 15th January 2020. Demolition of the ghastly buildings put up in front of the station in 1972, and meant to be only temporary though they lasted 40 years, was intended to open up a view of the station frontage with a brand new plaza, called King's Cross Square, but these equally ghastly buildings still blot out most of the view, more's the pity. 110/189</p><p>15/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woolwich_Arsenal'>Woolwich Arsenal</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Sign outside the future Woolwich Arsenal Crossrail station on 30th January 2020. The line should have opened in December 2018 but there is still no real sign of when it will actually start running. After the 2018 date was passed, it was going to be autumn 2019 and now its not expected to open until sometime in 2021 - but don't hold your breath. 111/189</p><p>30/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woolwich_Arsenal'>Woolwich Arsenal</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Sign at new entrance to future Crossrail station at Woolwich Arsenal, south-east London, on 30th January 2020 and still with no set date for the line's opening that should have occurred in December 2018. And this station will also be a considerable walk from the existing National Rail and DLR stations, involving the crossing of a major road. 112/189</p><p>30/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Hampstead'>West Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The original 1888 entrance to the London Overground West Hampstead station, on 3rd February 2020. A new entrance immediately to the left in conjunction with the rebuilding of the station at a cost of £12.5 million was completed in October 2019 but on the day of this photograph the original was still staffed and selling tickets, even though it is due for demolition. However, there is no longer any access from here to the platforms, both stairwells having been demolished, so anyone buying their tickets here has to come out and use the new entrance anyway. So they might just as well have used it in the first place! 113/189</p><p>03/02/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Hampstead'>West Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The new entrance to the London Overground station at West Hampstead, completed in October 2019, seen here on 3rd February 2020. The works were to install lifts to provide step free access to the platforms, in place of the rickety old stairs (now demolished). I wasn't the only one taking photographs, to the bemusement of station staff. 114/189</p><p>03/02/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/New_Barnet'>New Barnet</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The now fenced-off obsolete fast platforms at New Barnet, a London commuter station on the ECML where only the outer sides of the two island platforms are in use, seen here looking north on 4th March 2020. This station opened with the GNR's London Extension on 7th August 1850 as Barnet and was renamed New Barnet on 1st May 1884. On the far right, a class 717 unit from Welwyn Garden City to Moorgate is calling at the surviving outer edge of the up platform. 115/189</p><p>04/03/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Charing_Cross_CCR'>Charing Cross [CCR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_Railway'>Charing Cross Railway</a></small></p><p>The main frontage of Charing Cross station, London, on 7th March 2020, just before lockdown. Situated at the western end of the thoroughfare called Strand (NOT The Strand), it was opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1864 with the extension of the line from London Bridge. In 1958, it was suggested that the station should be closed and the railway bridge across the Thames with the Hungerford pedestrian bridge alongside be converted into a road bridge but these plans were rightly condemned. The narrow and by then quite shabby pedestrian bridge disappeared at the Millennium and was replaced by two new footbridges, either side of the railway bridge, much wider and a lot easier to navigate, although I remember the old one well. 116/189</p><p>07/03/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking'>Barking</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>Is this a disused station? Not exactly but somebody needs to go along the tracks with a bottle of Weedol, preferably when the trains aren't running. This is the major junction of Barking, an interchange between National Rail C2C services, London Overground and LUL District Line and Hammersmith & City Line services, looking west towards Fenchurch Street from the eastbound C2C platform for trains via Upminster, on 1st September 2020. 117/189</p><p>01/09/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Elephant_and_Castle'>Elephant and Castle</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Extensions:_Herne_Hill_to_the_Metropolitan_Railway_London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway'>Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)</a></small></p><p>The entrance to the National Rail station at Elephant & Castle, from the shopping centre, on 24th September 2020. This was the final day of the shopping centre which ceased trading and was closed for good by evening time in readiness for demolition and redevelopment of the area. When this centre was opened in 1965 it was the largest in Europe but had become very rundown and grubby in recent years and only a few shops were still open in its last few hours. 118/189</p><p>24/09/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Seven_Kings'>Seven Kings</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>One of the new TfL Rail purple versions of the famous LT roundel at Seven Kings station, seen from a Shenfield to Liverpool Street train on 6th October 2020. In the background are the obsolete platforms on the fast tracks on this quadrupled section, now fenced off from the local platforms. 119/189</p><p>06/10/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>An almost deserted Crouch Hill station, apart from a friend of mine, also called David, inside the bus stop style waiting shelter, on the GOBLIN section of the London Overground looking towards Gospel Oak, on 1st December 2020, the last full day of the second national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. 120/189</p><p>01/12/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Enfield_Chase'>Enfield Chase</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hertford_Loop_Great_Northern_Railway'>Hertford Loop (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Enfield Chase on 24th April 2021. This station was opened by the GNR on 4th April 1910 with the extension of the Wood Green (now Alexandra Palace) to Enfield line to Cuffley, later extended back to the main line at Stevenage to form the Hertford North Loop in 1918. The first Enfield station on this line was a terminus at street level so, to avoid a level crossing, the extension started back from there to gain height and cross Windmill Hill on a bridge. This included a new station, the one seen here (which became Enfield Chase in 1924) just east of the original terminus that was absorbed into a goods yard. This was closed in the 1970s and today the site is covered by a vast housing estate. On the day of this photo, there were no trains to Moorgate, nor any London Overground trains to Liverpool Street from nearby Enfield Town station, so Enfield was completely reliant on buses. 121/189</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hackney_Downs'>Hackney Downs</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The entrance at Hackney Downs station to the walkway that connects with Hackney Central on 17th February 2016. A previous walkway connecting Hackney Downs with the ex-NLRs Hackney station was abandoned when the latter closed in 1944 along with the Broad Street to Poplar service after heavy war damage. The new walkway was opened in 2015 when both lines became part of London Overground. However, this is not step free and is a bit of a climb up when transferring from Central to Downs and comes out at the extreme south end of the Chingford branch platform at the latter. Passengers for stations to Chingford and Enfield Town then have a lengthy walk to the subway and more stairs before arriving at the right platforms. Similarly, at Central, the walkway opens out on to the west end of the eastbound platform so any passengers for stations to Richmond and Clapham Junction have a long walk and a footbridge. 122/189</p><p>29/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Alexandra_Palace'>Alexandra Palace</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Alexandra Palace station, north London, on 8th May 2021. This was opened in 1859 as Wood Green, a slightly later addition to the GNRs London Extension of 1850 and was renamed Alexandra Palace in 1982. Not to be confused with the original station of the same name, opened by the GNR in 1873 and which was much more conveniently sited alongside the palace walls at the top of the steep hill up from the present station. 123/189</p><p>08/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harringay'>Harringay</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Is this the world's longest-serving temporary ticket office? It was put up at Harringay after the original and grander Victorian entrance, dating from 1885, was destroyed by fire in the 1960s. Never intended to be permanent, it is still theoretically in use more than fifty years later, but usually closed and passengers use their Oyster cards on the machines instead. This station is now what could be termed an unstaffed halt, seen on 15th May 2021. 124/189</p><p>15/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Lewis Cubitt's masterpiece, the grand frontage of King's Cross station, beautifully refurbished and seen from the new King's Cross Square, on 22nd May 2021. The GNR arrived in London in 1850 but had to terminate at a temporary station at Maiden Lane, just to the north, until King's Cross was ready in 1852. 125/189</p><p>22/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Acton_Main_Line'>Acton Main Line</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Acton Main Line, originally opened in 1868, looking east towards Paddington, on 22nd May 2021. After a long delay, the new footbridge and ticket hall, incorporating lifts to give step free access for the first time in the station's 153 year history, was opened on 18th March 2021. The obsolete up platform on the main line tracks (on right) is now fenced off while, further right, the down platform has been demolished. 126/189</p><p>22/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Acton_Main_Line'>Acton Main Line</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the brand new ticket hall at the TfL Rail station at Acton Main Line in west London, unveiled after a lengthy delay on 18th March 2021, seen here on 22nd May 2021. This will eventually be part of Crossrail that should have opened in December 2018. 127/189</p><p>22/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Liverpool_Street_EL'>Liverpool Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Not yet ready and still waiting for its first passengers, promised in December 2018, the new Crossrail station at Liverpool Street stands unopened in this view, on 29th May 2021. The ghastly glass office building on the left in the background stands on the site of the North London Railway's late lamented Broad Street terminus, opened in 1865, closed in 1986 and which should have had a Grade listing by English Heritage but was subsequently and sadly demolished with no regard whatsoever for its history nor architectural merit. 128/189</p><p>29/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Waterloo_International'>Waterloo International</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Waterloo_International_Eurostar'>Waterloo International (Eurostar)</a></small></p><p>The former Waterloo International Eurostar terminus, now rehabilitated as platforms 20 to 24 of the main National Rail terminus, on 7th June 2021. When opened on 14th November 1994, this formed a western extension to the 1848 terminus and remained in use until 13th November 2007 when it was replaced by St. Pancras International as London's Eurostar terminus, with the completion and opening of HS1. Treated virtually as a separate station in those days, after 2007 it lay unused until temporarily reopened from August to September 2017 while work took place at platforms 1 to 8. Following a period of redevelopment, platforms 20 to 22 reopened permanently for suburban trains as part of the main station on 10th December 2018 with platforms 23 and 24 reopening permanently on 20th May 2019. 129/189</p><p>07/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/Q/Queenstown_Road'>Queenstown Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Waterloo_Extension_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Waterloo Extension (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>A few years ago there was some talk of reopening the disused side platform at Queenstown Road but, as can be seen, that has yet to come to pass. The station was known as Queens Road Battersea, from its opening in 1877, to distinguish it from Queens Road Peckham on the LBSCR South London Line. Although the name of the Battersea thoroughfare was changed from Queens Road to Queenstown Road just after WWII, it was not until 12th May 1980 that the station was also renamed. This view is from a train to Waterloo departing from the north side of the remaining island platform, on 7th June 2021. 130/189</p><p>07/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Forest_Hill'>Forest Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>Forest Hill, northbound platform, seen from a speeding Thameslink service from Cambridge to Brighton, on the morning of Monday, 14th June 2021. This station in the south-east London suburbs was opened as Dartmouth Arms with the London & Croydon Railway on 5th June 1839 and renamed Forest Hill in 1845. It was rebuilt by the LBSCR when the line was quadrupled in the early 1850s with four platforms, two side on the slow tracks and a narrow central island platform on the fast tracks. The station was badly damaged by bombing in WWII but was patched up and survived in a semi-derelict state until BR demolished the buildings and replaced them with a CLASP style prefabricated building in 1972. The central island platform had been demolished circa 1967. 131/189</p><p>14/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>The new London Overground station at Barking Riverside, due to open in 2022, seen here under construction on 24th June 2021. A brief idea for the line to continue across the Thames to Abbey Wood via Thamesmead (the latter has never had a station) seems to have been scuppered by the fact that this station has been quite clearly designed as a dead-end terminus. 132/189</p><p>24/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>Seen through a zoom lens (and a wire fence), the new London Overground station at Barking Riverside taking shape on 24th June 2021. This will be served by an extension of the London Overground GOBLIN service from its present terminus at Barking and will necessitate trains being diverted away from their present bay platform at Barking and crossing the 1959 flyover to serve the station before travelling along a short section of the Tilbury Loop to the new junction from which the Riverside line diverges, 133/189</p><p>24/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Romford'>Romford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Romford was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 20th June 1839. On 7th June 1893, the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway opened its short branch from Upminster to a single platform terminus facing the Great Eastern Railway lines (as the ECR had become in 1862), on the opposite side of the bridge over the High Street. This had its own entrance facing the GER station at street level but closed in 1934 and, ever since, passengers have used the main entrance, seen here, and cross to the Upminster branch by a footbridge across the street from the east end of the main line up platform. For a major station serving a major town, Romford deserves a better entrance than this rather unspectacular one, beneath the bridge carrying the quadrupled ex-GER lines. This view is on 9th July 2021. 134/189</p><p>09/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woolwich_Dockyard'>Woolwich Dockyard</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_Kent_Railway'>North Kent Railway</a></small></p><p>Woolwich Dockyard, eastbound platform, seen from a South Eastern service to Cannon Street via Greenwich, on 15th July 2021. This station was also opened with the North Kent Line on 30th July 1849. Only the original walls remain, all the Victorian buildings were demolished circa mid 1970s and replaced by the usual ghastly bus stop style waiting shelters. 135/189</p><p>15/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Herne_Hill'>Herne Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Extensions:_Penge_Junction_to_Stewarts_Lane_London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway'>Metropolitan Extensions: Penge Junction to Stewarts Lane (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)</a></small></p><p>Herne Hill, looking south-east on 29th July 2021. This was opened by the LCDR on 25th August 1862 as a temporary terminus from Victoria before extension to Beckenham Junction on 1st July 1863. On 6th October 1863, Herne Hill became the junction for the City Extension branch as far as Elephant & Castle and on 1st January 1869, a spur was opened south to Tulse Hill, connecting with the LBSCRs Peckham Rye to Sutton line of 1868. Following reopening of the tunnel between Blackfriars and Farringdon in 1988, Thameslink services now operate through here, serving the outer edges of the two island platforms with trains on the line from Victoria towards Beckenham Junction serving the inner edges, allowing cross-platform interchange. The grandiose Victorian street level entrance building has been a Grade II Listed Structure since 1998. 136/189</p><p>29/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Penge_West'>Penge West</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Penge West, opened 1839, closed 1841, reopened 1863, on 29th July 2021. This station building was severely damaged by arsonists in 2005 and limited facilities were in use until the summer of 2006 when rebuilding began, completed in December of the same year. The station is served by National Rail Southern services and, since 9th December 2012, London Overground services when the station was handed over to TfL control. 137/189</p><p>29/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The new roof added on to the west side of Kings Cross station, creating a spacious new concourse, seen here at 07.01 on Saturday, 25th September 2021. 138/189</p><p>25/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Essex_Road'>Essex Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_and_City_Railway'>Great Northern and City Railway</a></small></p><p>Essex Road, on the former Great Northern & City Railway from Finsbury Park to Moorgate, dating from 1904, is unusual in that passengers have to go DOWN from the platforms to the lifts before they can go up to the street. And as can be seen in this view looking down, on 13th November 2021, the stairs are on the steep side, especially when going UP and hardly suitable for people with reduced mobility. Probably explains why this station is so little used, which adds greatly to its rather spooky atmosphere. 139/189</p><p>13/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Essex_Road'>Essex Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_and_City_Railway'>Great Northern and City Railway</a></small></p><p>Despite being in a busy residential and business part of the London Borough of Islington, and with its station building on the corner of two main roads, one of which it takes its name from, Essex Road station, now part of the GN suburban system since 1976, is little used. It opened with the line as Essex Road in 1904, was renamed Canonbury & Essex Road in 1922 but the original name was restored in 1948. Despite its name, the entrance is actually situated on Canonbury Road, on the right. This view is on 13th November 2021. 140/189</p><p>13/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crystal_Palace'>Crystal Palace</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway'>West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a></small></p><p>Looking down the stairs at the former Low Level station at Crystal Palace, on the afternoon of Monday, 29th November 2021. This has been the only station in the south London suburb since the closure of the totally separate High Level station in 1954. The neighbourhood still takes its name from the Crystal Palace that was destroyed in an horrendous fire on the night of 30th November 1936 so this photo is 1 day before the 85th anniversary of its sad destruction. 141/189</p><p>29/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Sydenham'>Sydenham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Sydenham on 29th November 2021. This was one of the original stations of the London & Croydon Railway, opened with the line on 5th June 1839 but this entrance dates from 1844 when the station was re-sited, slightly to the south. The tracks here are quadruple but the station has platforms only on the slow lines which are served by both National Rail Southern and London Overground trains and has been under the control of Transport for London since 23rd May 2010 when LO trains were first extended from New Cross Gate to Crystal Palace and West Croydon. The northbound platform was re-sited slightly to the north in 1982. 142/189</p><p>29/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Paddington'>Paddington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Merry Christmas everyone at Railscot! Paddington station's Christmas Tree, just after 6 a.m. on Saturday, 11th December 2021 while I was waiting for the Railway Touring Company's railtour to Shrewsbury behind Stanier Black 5 no. 44871. 143/189</p><p>11/12/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Paddington'>Paddington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>Paddington station concourse at 06.00 on Saturday, 11th December 2021, while waiting for the Railway Touring Company's excursion to Shrewsbury behind Stanier Black 5 no. 44871 that departed at 07.06. 144/189</p><p>11/12/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>After standing derelict and boarded-up for more years than I care to remember, despite being still open to passengers, the former ticket office at Crouch Hill station (see image <a href='/img/73/301/index.html'>73301</a>) on the London Overground GOBLIN section from Gospel Oak to Barking, has had a makeover and been transformed into a very nice coffee bar, as seen here on the afternoon of Friday, 14th January 2022. 145/189</p><p>14/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/O/Old_Street_GNCR'>Old Street [GNCR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern_and_City_Railway'>Great Northern and City Railway</a></small></p><p>The atmospherically gloomy pedestrian subway, from the foot of the steps leading down from the ex-Great Northern & City Railway platforms at Old Street station, on 14th January 2022. Passengers interchanging with the LU Northern Line carry on going down but those who wish to head for the street find that, after descending a considerable distance, they then have to go back up again to the exit but at least at that point there is an escalator. 146/189</p><p>14/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harringay_Green_Lanes'>Harringay Green Lanes</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>View east towards Barking, from the platform ends at Harringay Green Lanes on the London Overground GOBLIN section, on the morning of 25th January 2022. This station was known as Harringay Stadium from 1958 to 1991 and had extra long platforms to cater for the crowds to events there. Even though the stadium was demolished circa 1990, the long platforms remained intact until 2003 when, due to subsidence, the far ends were demolished, leaving only the stilts on which they stood, although they were later partially extended back again to take five car trains. 147/189</p><p>25/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Streatham_Hill'>Streatham Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway'>West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a></small></p><p>The rather quaint street level building to Streatham Hill station, south London, in pouring rain on the afternoon of Saturday, 19th February 2022. This station was opened as Streatham by the West End of London & Crystal Palace Railway in 1865 with the service being provided by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. It was renamed Streatham & Brixton Hill in 1868 and finally to Streatham Hill the following year. In 1911, the LBSCR electrified the line on the overhead wire system but this was replaced with third rails by the Southern Railway in 1928. 148/189</p><p>19/02/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Paddington_EL'>Paddington [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>More than three years late and still this 'revolutionary' line has yet to open but is now expected to do so later in 2022. But with so many broken promises since December 2018, don't hold your breath. This view of this still-shuttered entrance at Paddington is at 05.50 on Saturday, 5th March 2022, taken while waiting to board The Railway Touring Company's Flying Scotsman railtour to Worcester Shrub Hill that departed at 07.04. 149/189</p><p>05/03/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Back of Kings Cross station, dating from 1852, seen through the front upstairs windows of a New Routemaster bus on route 390 from Archway to Victoria heading south down York Way, on the afternoon of 13th April 2022. The clock tower of St. Pancras is visible in the centre background. 150/189</p><p>13/04/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The main facade of the now 170 years old King's Cross station, at 14.49 on 13th April 2022. Lewis Cubitt's masterpiece of 1852 designed for the London terminus of the Great Northern Railway which arrived in the Capital two years earlier but terminated initially at a temporary station at Maiden Lane until Kings Cross was ready. This area was originally known as Battlebridge but the GNR Directors preferred King's Cross as to them it sounded 'more grand and important'. The old name is perpetuated in a block of flats, Battlebridge Court, in nearby Wharfedale Road. 151/189</p><p>13/04/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Liverpool_Street_EL'>Liverpool Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>At last! Crossrail is here, as shown in this sign at Liverpool Street on 18th May 2022. Well not quite, despite being officially opened by HM The Queen the previous day (see news item), passengers will have to wait another six days before they are able to ride from Paddington to Abbey Wood (and even then Bond Street station will not be ready) and another year before through trains from Shenfield to Reading commence. 152/189</p><p>18/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harold_Wood'>Harold Wood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Harold Wood, Essex, looking east on 18th May 2022. The line was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1840 but this station was not opened until 1st December 1868 by the Great Eastern Railway which inherited the ECR on 1st January 1862. The main line platforms on the fast tracks (right) are now fenced off out of use. On 24th May 2022, TfL Rail was rebranded Elizabeth Line in connection with the much delayed opening of the Paddington to Abbey Wood section and this station will in a year or so's time be served by through EL trains between Shenfield and Heathrow or Reading, running under London from just east of Liverpool Street and serving the new EL station there. For the time being, trains from Shenfield still run into and out of Liverpool Street main line station. 153/189</p><p>18/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Paddington_EL'>Paddington [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Really, at last, the Elizabeth Line is open, at least according to this sign by the Hammersmith and City Line at Paddington on Opening Day, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. What the sign does not say is that this only includes the new stretch beneath London from Paddington east to Abbey Wood. Through trains from Shenfield to Heathrow and Reading will have to wait another year. Also, there is no indication that the walk from here to the Elizabeth Line is unfortunately lengthy, through the taxi rank almost the entire length of the eastern side of Paddington and then an escalator and the entire width of the station concourse. 154/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Paddington_EL'>Paddington [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Paddington, Elizabeth Line platforms, looking across to the eastbound platform on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. Trains from Abbey Wood terminate here for the present although those arriving at the westbound platform then run-on to reverse and crossover for the return journey. In a year or so, trains from Abbey Wood (and from Shenfield too) will continue west beyond here to Heathrow and Reading. 155/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon_EL'>Farringdon [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>View up the escalator at Farringdon station, Elizabeth Line, on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. 156/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon_EL'>Farringdon [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>New entrance to Farringdon station during a heavy downpour on the First Day of Elizabeth Line services, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. Also giving access to Thameslink services, this faces the London Underground station across Cowcross Street. 157/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon_EL'>Farringdon [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Farringdon station, Elizabeth Line, eastbound platform looking back west towards Paddington from a train to Abbey Wood, on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. All stations, apart from Custom House and Abbey Wood which are on the surface, are fitted with platform doors like those on the LU Jubilee Line Extension of 1999. 158/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Liverpool_Street_EL'>Liverpool Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Liverpool Street, Elizabeth Line westbound platform looking towards Paddington, with a class 345 for the latter just visible through the platform doors, on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. In a year or so's time when the through Elizabeth Line service from Shenfield to Heathrow or Reading begins, the Abbey Wood section will become a branch from Whitechapel. 159/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tottenham_Court_Road_EL'>Tottenham Court Road [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Tottenham Court Road, Elizabeth Line westbound platform, looking towards Paddington, on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. The platforms here are on a slight curve. 160/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tottenham_Court_Road_EL'>Tottenham Court Road [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Elizabeth Line eastbound platform at Tottenham Court Road on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. An interchange with the Central and Northern Lines but beware! If you are travelling towards Paddington and want to change here for the Underground, DO NOT go in the last carriage of the Elizabeth Line train or you will find you are confronted with a lengthy walk along the platform and then a considerable distance further to the tube lines. I found this to my cost when changing to go home after my visit, along with a quarter of a million others, on the opening day 161/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Canary_Wharf_EL'>Canary Wharf [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Canary Wharf station, Elizabeth Line, looking across from the eastbound platform to the westbound, from a train to Abbey Wood, on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. 162/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Custom_House_EL'>Custom House [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Custom_House_Diversion_Eastern_Counties_and_Thames_Junction_Railway'>Custom House Diversion (Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway)</a></small></p><p>Custom House station, Elizabeth Line, on the site of the former North Woolwich branch station of the same name and an interchange with the Docklands Light Railway's Beckton branch, looking west on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. A new bus service, no. 304, also began on this day running from here to Manor Park station on the Shenfield section of TfL Rail which has now also been re-branded as the Elizabeth Line but which, for the time being, continues to run into and out of Liverpool Street main line station. 163/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woolwich_EL'>Woolwich [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Woolwich station, Elizabeth Line, looking back west towards Paddington from 345 unit making its penultimate stop en route to Abbey Wood, on the First Day of Service, Tuesday, 24th May 2022. 164/189</p><p>24/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the new London Overground GOBLIN terminus at Barking Riverside with, at platform level, 710273 waiting to depart with the 12.18 service to Gospel Oak, on Friday, 22nd July 2022. 165/189</p><p>22/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hackney_Central'>Hackney Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>The new south side entrance on Graham Road to Hackney Central station, London Overground, opened on 5th July 2022, seen here a month later on Saturday, 6th August. 166/189</p><p>06/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hackney_Central'>Hackney Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Hackney Central, looking west, on 6th August 2022. This is partly on the site of the old North London Railway's Hackney station that opened in 1850 and closed in 1944 after heavy war damage precipitated the end of the Broad Street to Poplar service. For 35 years this line, through the teeming heart of east London, carried only freight until a diesel passenger service from Stratford to Camden Road was suddenly reinstated in 1979 with Hackney Central opening in 1980. After the closure of Broad Street in 1986, this was electrified and incorporated into the Richmond service, which is now part of the London Overground network. 167/189</p><p>06/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chessington_North'>Chessington North</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chessington_South_Branch_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>The distincitve large canopies at Chessington North are typical of all the stations on the branch to Chessington South, seen here looking towards the latter on the afternoon of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. This station was opened on 29th May 1939 with the extension from Tolworth to Chessington South, Tolworth having been reached from Motspur Park exactly a year earlier. Before opening, it was to have been called Chessington Court but eventually the name Chessington North was settled on. NB: This is not and never has been a LPTB station, it was opened with the line by the post-Grouping Southern Railway. 168/189</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chessington_South'>Chessington South</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chessington_South_Branch_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Zoom lens view of Chessington South, looking towards London Waterloo, on the afternoon of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. On the left is the never used up platform that would have served trains from Leatherhead had that section been completed. On the right on the station building, the blue board blocks the corridor from the ticket office that would have led onto the never built footbridge. 169/189</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Westcombe_Park'>Westcombe Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Greenwich_and_Charlton_Line_South_Eastern_Railway'>Greenwich and Charlton Line (South Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Westcombe Park, on the link line between Greenwich and the North Kent Line at Charlton, looking east on the afternoon of Saturday, 29th October 2022. This station is another that had its original buildings replaced on one side only, in this case on the down platform on the left, resulting in a sadly lopsided appearance. 170/189</p><p>29/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tottenham_Hale'>Tottenham Hale</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_and_Eastern_Railway'>Northern and Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>The landmark new entrance to Tottenham Hale station, giving access to National Rail and Stansted Express trains, the Victoria Line and with an improved bus station behind the camera, seen here at dusk on Saturday, 29th October 2022. A vast improvement over the old. 171/189</p><p>29/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kentish_Town'>Kentish Town</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_Extension_Midland_Railway'>London Extension (Midland Railway)</a></small></p><p>The only original platform building at Kentish Town to survive is this on the main southbound platform, seen here looking north on Sunday, 6th November 2022. Some original Midland Railway platform awnings, typical of that company, have been re-sited on the bridge outside the station to form a shelter for an al-fresco coffee bar. See image <a href='/img/77/170/index.html'>77170</a>. This station is an interchange with the London Underground Northern Line (High Barnet and Mill Hill East branch). 172/189</p><p>06/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>View from the eastbound platform at my local station at Crouch Hill, now part of the London Overground GOBLIN, on the afternoon of Tuesday, 15th November 2022. The building at the top of the steps is the former ticket office, which was disused and boarded-up for many years but has now been converted into a rather nice coffee bar. See also image <a href='/img/79/676/index.html'>79676</a>. 173/189</p><p>15/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Earlsfield'>Earlsfield</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southampton_Railway'>London and Southampton Railway</a></small></p><p>The bridge over Garratt Lane at Earlsfield, south London, looking south from the front upstairs windows of an EH type bus on TfL route 77 from Waterloo to Tooting station, on the afternoon of Saturday, 19th November 2022. This line was opened by the London & Southampton Railway in 1838 but Earlsfield station (on left), between Clapham Junction and Wimbledon, was not opened until 1st April 1884 by the London & South Western Railway. 174/189</p><p>19/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/V/Vauxhall'>Vauxhall</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Waterloo_Extension_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Waterloo Extension (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Vauxhall, first stop out of Waterloo, looking north towards the terminus on the afternoon of Saturday, 19th November 2022. This station opened on 11th July 1848 with the extension from Nine Elms to Waterloo, the date on which Nine Elms became a motive power depot. That closed in 1967 and was demolished and the New Covent Garden Market transported to the site. 123 years after Vauxhall's opening it became an interchange with the LU Victoria Line, which opened with the Brixton extension on 23rd July 1971. And 143 years after Nine Elms closed to passengers, the name re-appeared on London's railway map when a new LU station of that name was opened on the Northern Line's Battersea Power Station branch from Kennington, on 20th September 2021. 175/189</p><p>19/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Shadwell'>Shadwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>On 3rd and 4th December 2022, with the Lewisham section of the DLR closed and replacement bus services running from Westferry to Island Gardens, some trains from Bank were diverted to Stratford to replace the usual service on that branch to and from Canary Wharf. This is the view from unit 72 on the 'special' service approaching its first stop at Shadwell, on the afternoon of Saturday, 3rd. Presumably from Island Gardens, people used the 1902 foot tunnel under the Thames to Greenwich and then had to find their own way to Lewisham as there was no mention of any replacement buses between the two south of the river. DLR trains from Bank to Woolwich Arsenal and from Tower Gateway to Beckton were not affected. (The C2C line to and from Fenchurch Street is on the left.) 176/189</p><p>03/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Limehouse'>Limehouse</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Docklands_Light_Railway'>Docklands Light Railway</a></small></p><p>View from DLR unit no. 72 approaching Limehouse, on a special diverted service from Bank to Stratford, due to the weekend closure of the Lewisham branch, on the afternoon of Saturday, 3rd December 2022. This station opened as Stepney on the London & Blackwall Railway in 1840 with the Bow branch link to the GER (on left) opened in 1849. It was renamed Stepney East in 1923 and the 1840 platforms demolished after the end of the Blackwall service in 1926, which saw the line from here to Blackwall, across Limehouse Viaduct, relegated to freight until 1962. The viaduct then lay unused for 25 years until a section of the DLR was laid on part of it and it reopened in August 1987 with new platforms on the site of the demolished ones and the whole station renamed Limehouse. The platforms on the left are now part of the C2C system in to and out of Fenchurch Street. 177/189</p><p>03/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kings_Cross'>Kings Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The modern concourse at London Kings Cross from ground level, on New Years Eve afternoon 2022. 178/189</p><p>31/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southbury'>Southbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Churchbury_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Churchbury Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Southbury station entrance on 21st January 2023. It was opened as Churchbury with the Chuchbury Loop from Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green) on the Enfield Town line to Cheshunt on the Lea Valley Line on 1st October 1891. Passenger services ceased from 30th September 1909 due to tramway competition but the line was reopened on 1st March 1915 mostly for workers to the factories on the Hertford Road during WWI but closed again on 30th June 1919. 41 years passed before a new dawn arrived on 21st November 1960 when it was reopened by BR Eastern Region as part of the electrification of lines in north and north-east London. Churchbury was renamed Southbury and the line became the Southbury Loop. This building had been used commercially while closed so very little need for renovation. This line and station have been part of the TfL-operated London Overground system since 31st May 2015. 179/189</p><p>21/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southbury'>Southbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Churchbury_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Churchbury Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Southbury station, looking north towards Cheshunt, on 21st January 2023. Opened as Churchbury in 1891, closed 1909, reopened 1915 to 1919, and then finally reopened permanently as Southbury in 1960. It weathered its many years of closure remarkably well and needed little work done for the 1960 reopening of the line. The Southbury Loop, as the line is now known, has been part of the London Overground since 31st May 2015. 180/189</p><p>21/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Theobalds_Grove'>Theobalds Grove</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Churchbury_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Churchbury Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The refurbished entrance hall to Theobalds Grove station, most northerly on the Southbury Loop, serving a part of Waltham Cross, and the only one to retain its original name when the Churchbury Loop as was reopened on electrification in 1960 after 41 years and re-christened the Southbury Loop. Churchbury station became Southbury and Forty Hill station was renamed Turkey Street. All three had originally opened in 1891 but closed in 1909 due to tramway competition. A brief reopening occurred between 1915 and 1919 before the permanent 1960 reopening when many local residents at the time could hardly believe their derelict old railway really had been brought back to life. This line and station were transferred to TfL ownership as an additional part of the London Overground network on 31st May 2015. 181/189</p><p>21/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Theobalds_Grove'>Theobalds Grove</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Churchbury_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Churchbury Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Theobalds Grove on 21st January 2023. Opened in 1891 but closed from 1909 until 1960 (apart from WWI use 1915 to 1919) it was used as housing accommodation for some of that last period of closure and required only minor renovation for its permanent reopening. Unfortunately, the original canopies have been replaced and modern shelters built onto the Victorian walls which are somewhat better, I suppose, than the uninviting bus stop type shelters at so many stations. Should there not be an apostrophe before the S in the station's name? I think there should. 182/189</p><p>21/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Shadwell'>Shadwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>One of two entrances to Shadwell DLR station, the most easterly, beneath the historic London & Blackwall Railway viaduct of 1840, on 25th January 2023. This stands on the site of the old Shadwell & St. Georges East station, closed as a war economy in 1941 and never reopened, but whose boarded-up entrance still stands further east. <a href='/img/73/355/index.html'>73355</a> 183/189</p><p>25/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wimbledon'>Wimbledon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Wimbledon station on 27th January 2023. This was rebuilt by the Southern Railway in the late 1920s in connection with the opening of the Wimbledon & Sutton Line between Wimbledon and South Merton in 1929, completed to Sutton in 1930. 184/189</p><p>27/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kilburn_High_Road'>Kilburn High Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Seen from a TfL bus on route 32 from Kilburn Park to Edgware on 11th February 2023, the ugly uninviting entrance to Kilburn High Road station which, since 2007, has been part of the London Overground on the Euston to Watford Junction route. It was originally opened by the LNWR as Kilburn & Maida Vale in 1852 and was renamed in either 1922 or 1923, sources vary. Only Overground trains call here although there were none throughout this weekend and all the following week due to engineering works. LU Bakerloo Line trains between Queens Park and Harrow & Wealdstone were also suspended. 185/189</p><p>11/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Finsbury_Park'>Finsbury Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Peterborough_Great_Northern_Railway'>London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Victorian platform buildings at Finsbury Park, looking north, on Saturday, 25th February 2023. The line was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1850 but this station was not opened until 1st July 1861 and known as Seven Sisters Road. On 22nd August 1867, it became the junction for the Edgware, Highgate & London Railway, only part of which became a section of the LU Northern Line. Two years later, nearby Hornsey Wood was opened to the public and renamed Finsbury Park and the station was renamed accordingly on 15th November 1869. 186/189</p><p>25/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woolwich_EL'>Woolwich [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>The 1 millionth passenger journey on the Elizabeth Line, since its opening on 24th May 2022, was recorded in the week ending on Saturday, 25th February 2023. This is the ticket hall at Woolwich on that day. This station stands alone with no direct interchange to the DLR and National Rail station at Woolwich Arsenal, about 200 yards to the south and across a busy road that has to be crossed on the level. 187/189</p><p>25/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cannon_Street'>Cannon Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_Eastern_Railway'>South Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>A station I rarely visit, let alone photograph, this is the modern entrance to Cannon Street on 28th February 2023. It was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 1st September 1866 and stands on a brick viaduct across Upper Thames Street, the country end fronting onto the Thames where the original twin towers and side walls remain <a href='/img/79/160/index.html'>79160</a>. It was badly damaged in WWII but rebuilding did not begin for many years. In 1984 it was cited for closure but remains to this day, mostly a commuter station for services into south-east London and Kent and is an interchange with the LU Circle and District Lines. 188/189</p><p>28/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cannon_Street'>Cannon Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_Eastern_Railway'>South Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Rebuilt concourse at Cannon Street, terminus of the short branch across the Thames from London Bridge, looking from west to east on 28th February 2023. 189/189</p><p>28/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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