Harringay Green Lanes railway station is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in

Harringay Harringay (pronounced ) is a district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the New River, where it crosses Green Lanes by Finsbury Park, and Duckett's ...

, north

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. It is from (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction) and is situated between and .

Services

Trains run every 15 minutes in each direction, towards either or . All passenger services from the station are operated by

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. The lines through the station are also used frequently by freight trains. Electrification work on the route (including bridge rebuilding, track lowering and platform lengthening) saw the service suspended on weekends for a year from June 2016, whilst weekday services terminated at until 23 September; thereafter there were no trains at all until February 2017 (when weekday services resumed).

Connections

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routes 29, 141,

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and night route N29 serve the station. The station is a 0.36 mile (0.58 km) walkMeasured using the measure distance function i
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The distance is measured from the street outside Harringay Green Lanes Station, via Umfreville Road, to the point on the bridge outside the station at Harringay Station. from

Harringay railway station Harringay railway station is in Harringay in the London Borough of Haringey, north London. It is on the Great Northern route that forms part of the East Coast Main Line, down the line from , and is situated between to the south and to the ...

on the

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History

It was opened on 1 June 1880 with the name ''Green Lanes'', but has since been renamed a number of times: *Harringay Park, Green Lanes (1883) *Harringay Park (18 June 1951) *Harringay Stadium (27 October 1958) *Harringay East (12 May 1990) *Harringay Green Lanes (8 July 1991) There were originally wooden platform buildings, which were replaced by brick and concrete structures in the 1950s. The original ticket office at street level survived and in recent times has been converted into a café. To cope with the huge number of passengers visiting Harringay Stadium and

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, both right next to the station, very long platforms were provided, but these were shortened in late 2003 due to subsidence. Just west of the station was a goods yard; this closed on 3 February 1964, and the site is now occupied by

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nature reserve.

Station infrastructure

In summer 2008, the station was repainted and re-signed in London Overground colours, with the green-painted staircase railings (for example) of the former

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franchise giving way to Overground orange. The station has no direct interchange to a tube station, despite the fact that the

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runs directly beneath it and the distance between the two stations at either end of this section, and , is particularly long for the line. Manor House station is about away. Transfer on a single ticket is allowed between Harringay Green Lanes and nearby . The station has step-free access from street to platform.

Gallery

References

Bibliography

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External links

Barking & Gospel Oak Line Users Group Website

Harringay Online – Local Community Website for area around Harringay, Green Lanes Station
* Pictures of the station and its environs on th
Harringay Flickr group
* Harringay Online'
Harringay Timeline

Article on Transition Finsbury Park Website telling the story of planting fruit trees on unused land around the station entrances
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