Stroud Green
Stroud Green viaduct, seen through the front upstairs windows of a route W3 bus from Finsbury Park to Northumberland Park on Stapleton Hall Road, north London, on 1st February 2020. This once carried the ex-GNR 'Northern Heights' line to Alexandra Palace that almost became part of the LUL Northern Line but the scheme was cancelled after WWII, even though more than £1 million had been spent before 1939 on the aborted electrification project. Through the left hand arch is the surviving station house (with chimney pots and now a community centre) of Stroud Green station that closed with the line in 1954. The wooden platforms and buildings were on the embankment to the left but were burned down by vandals in 1967. Beneath the roadway here runs the London Overground GOBLIN Gospel Oak to Barking line to the east of Crouch Hill station, crossing obliquely under the roadway and then the viaduct in a short tunnel. A good view of the GOBLIN looking east, and the spur to the ECML, can be gained from the viaduct which now forms part of the Parkland Walk footpath.
Location: Stroud Green (former)
Original line: Edgware, Highgate and London Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Viaducts, used and disused, including views 2008-2023
Date: 01/02/2020
Image number: 72356
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