Seven Sisters
Through these trees at Seven Sisters can be discerned a small surviving section of the embankment that once supported the North Woolwich bound platform on the Palace Gates branch which diverged here from the Enfield Town line, seen from the latter's surviving northbound platform from which this view was taken on 1st January 2020. The branch closed to passengers on 7th January 1963, along with the stations at West Green, Noel Park & Wood Green and Palace Gates (Wood Green) and to freight on 5th October 1964. The branch was nonsensically left out of the belated 1960 electrification of the Enfield Town and Chingford Lines which became part of London Overground on 31st May 2015. Had sense prevailed, the branch could now be part of this north London electrified system too although should Crossrail 2 ever materialise, the proposed New Southgate branch will more or less follow the route of the old Palace Gates branch. But don't hold your breath that this will happen anytime soon.
Location: Seven Sisters
Original line: Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Disused London stations 1981-2023
Date: 01/01/2020
Image number: 72113
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