The site of Hornsey Road station, looking west towards Gospel Oak, seen through the upstairs side windows of a TfL New Routemaster bus on route 91 to Crouch End, on 6th August 2021. This section of line opened as the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway in 1868 with Hornsey Road being added in 1872. It closed as a WWII economy on 3rd May 1943 but never reopened and was demolished soon after the war. Until 1960, steam-hauled summer excursions from St. Pancras to Southend Central came this way, afterwards leaving only a DMU shuttle service between Kentish Town and Barking that Beeching wanted to shut in 1963. It survived and in 1981 trains were diverted at the western end from Kentish Town to Gospel Oak along a line that had closed to passengers in 1925. The line is also very busy with freight while the London Overground passenger service was belatedly electrified in 2019.

Location: Hornsey Road (former)

Original line: Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway

Photographer: David Bosher

Contact photographer: David Bosher

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Photosets: Disused London stations, 1981-2022  Disused London stations 1981-2023  

Date: 06/08/2021

Image number: 78366

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