Harringay Green Lanes
Brand new Aventra 710262 with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking arriving at Harringay Green Lanes station, in pouring rain, on 12th August 2019. This is the former Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway of 1868 but the station here, a wooden structure, did not open until 1st June 1880 as Green Lanes. It was renamed Harringay Park, Green Lanes in 1883 and further renamed simply Harringay Park in 1951. On 27th October 1958 - my 7th birthday, you can do the maths! - it became Harringay Stadium. The wooden platforms and shelters were replaced by concrete structures around the same time with extra long platforms to cater for visitors to the stadium but these were shortened in 2003 due to subsidence and the shelters were also replaced by structures offering less protection from the elements. After the stadium was demolished in 1990 the station was further renamed Harringay East, notwithstanding that it is more south than east of Harringay. This misnomer, however, was swept away a little over a year later on 8th July 1991 when the station became Harringay Green Lanes, almost the name it started out with in 1880.
Location: Harringay Green Lanes
Original line: Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Overground Class 710 units, 2019-2023
Date: 12/08/2019
Image number: 70836
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