Turnpike Lane
Exterior of Turnpike Lane station, Piccadilly Line, on 9th January 2023. It celebrated its 90th birthday on 19th September 2022, having opened with the first stage of the line's extension from Finsbury Park as far as Arnos Grove. Designed by Dr. Charles Holden and now a Grade II Listed Structure. When the Cockfosters extension was in the planning stage, this station was to have been called Wood Green and what is actually Wood Green station, one stop towards Cockfosters, was to have been called Lordship Lane. However, at that time there was a station of that name on the Crystal Palace High Level branch so rather than risk confusion, even though on opposite sides of the Thames, what was to have been Wood Green became Turnpike Lane and Lordship Lane became Wood Green. (The Crystal Palace High Level branch closed on 20th September 1954 and a housing estate now covers the site where the actual Lordship Lane station once stood.)
Location: Turnpike Lane
Original line: Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Underground stations 2010-2023
Date: 09/01/2023
Image number: 84040
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