Noel Park and Wood Green
The site of Noel Park & Wood Green station on the former Seven Sisters to Palace Gates branch in north London that closed to passengers in 1963 and to freight in 1964, seen here on 9th December 2010. The site is now part of the vast Wood Green shopping city, as ghastly and indistinguishable from all the others that disfigure towns and cities up and down the UK. Sadly I never got to ride on this line but I do remember the station before it closed, a squat grey-stone building beneath the bridge that carried the line across Wood Green High Road. For several years after closure, it became a shop selling cheap secondhand goods but the whole station, including the derelict platforms on the embankment, were swept away in the 1970s to make way for the shopping city, The only clue nowadays to the fact there was ever a railway here is the lowering of the roadway down from the pavement for 100 yards or so which was necessary to give enough headroom for double-decker trams, then trolleybuses and buses to pass beneath the line.
Location: Noel Park and Wood Green (former)
Original line: Palace Gates Branch (Great Eastern Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Disused London stations, 1981-2022 Disused London stations 1981-2023
Date: 09/12/2010
Image number: 73260
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