The soon to be closed Angel Road station on the Lea Valley Line, on 29th March 2019. This station was opened as Edmonton by the Northern & Eastern Railway on their line from Stratford to Broxbourne on 15th September 1840 and was renamed Water Lane on 1st March 1849 when the Eastern Counties Railway, to which the N & E was leased, opened a branch north-west to Enfield Town and which had a better-sited station at Edmonton. These lines became part of the Great Eastern Railway on 1st January 1862 and it was the GER who renamed the station Angel Road on 1st January 1864. The route to Enfield via the N & E line from Stratford was extremely circuitous and in 1872 the GER opened their 'cut-off' lines to Enfield and Chingford as well as the Lea Valley Line from a new junction at Bethnal Green, east of Liverpool Street. A new high level station at Edmonton was provided (later Lower Edmonton and now Edmonton Green) for Enfield trains with just a shuttle between Angel Road and Edmonton surviving until withdrawn by the LNER on 7th September 1939 which saw the closure of the low level 1849 station at Edmonton. The line remained open for freight and diversions but was eventually abandoned on 7th September 1964 and part of the route is now a footpath while the low level station at Edmonton is now lost to a massive road roundabout.

Location: Angel Road

Original line: Northern and Eastern Railway

Photographer: David Bosher

Contact photographer: David Bosher

Contact editor

Photosets: Disused London stations 1981-2023  Station nameboards, National and Heritage lines 1974-2023  

Date: 29/03/2019

Image number: 68176

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