Crouch Hill station, London Overground GOBLIN, 2010-2022

A collection of photos taken at my local London Overground GOBLIN line station at Crouch Hill over a 12 years period from 2010 to 2022.
David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>The former ticket office building at Crouch Hill station, now part of the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, which has been out of railway use for very many years, seen here on 2nd December 2010. I can, however, remember when it was open and staffed and buying a half price ticket here when I was a boy, only for the ticket clerk to bark: 'ow old are you, mate?' The exterior of the building was then adorned with British Railways London Midland Region signs all now vanished. The boundary between the London Midland and Eastern Regions was just to the east of here and all the stations from Harringay Stadium (now Harringay Green Lanes) to Barking had blue Eastern Region signs as opposed to the maroon of the London Midland as here at Crouch Hill and also Upper Holloway. 1/18</p><p>02/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>172008, from Gospel Oak to Barking, approaching Crouch Hill station with a London Overground GOBLIN service on a snowy 2nd December 2010. The line was electrified in 2019. 2/18</p><p>02/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>172006, with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking, calling at Crouch Hill station in north London, on the cold and snowy afternoon of Sunday, 20th January 2013. 3/18</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Crouch Hill station on the London Overground GOBLIN, looking south-west towards Gospel Oak in the snow on Sunday, 20th January 2013. This is my local station and I was glad to get home out of the cold. The scene has changed completely here now with the installation of the masts and overhead wires for the line's forthcoming electrification but as of January 2019, us north Londoners are STILL waiting for our electric trains, promised a year or more ago, with the 172 DMUs continuing to run indefinitely - and with a reduced service at weekends, too. 4/18</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>In my photo of Crouch Hill station (Image number 67407) on the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, I stated that as of January 2019 us north Londoners were still waiting for our electric trains despite being promised them over a year earlier and then no later than December 2018. It is now February 2019 and electric trains are finally running but NOT with the bright new class 710 EMU's and NOT fulfilling the line's full service. There is still no confirmed date of when they will start operating on this route but, in the meantime and to avoid a total shutdown of the GOBLIN, TfL has drafted in some class 378s that have been used on the rest of the already electrified LO network since 2010. However, only three sets are to be used running alongside the class 172 units of which two have already been taken out of service for refurbishment ahead of their transfer to West Midlands Trains. If the 378s do not cover all the gaps in the GOBLIN service, there will be further reductions. A reduced service is currently already operating at weekends. At 12.11 on Wednesday, 13th February 2019, 378 232 arrives at Crouch Hill station with a Gospel Oak to Barking service. 5/18</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378232, drafted in by TfL to fill a gap in the London Overground GOBLIN service caused by the late arrival of the new 710 EMUs, departing from Crouch Hill station in north London with a service from Barking to Gospel Oak, on 13th February 2019. This is the train I travelled on from Crouch Hill to Wanstead Park in the morning and back home again to Crouch Hill in the evening, my first electric journeys on this line that I have known since I was a schoolboy more than half a century ago. The class 172 diesels continue to run alongside the 378s for the present until such time as the 710s takeover completely; in the meantime, it is a case of pot luck what turns up at a GOBLIN station when you go to catch a train. 6/18</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Brand new Aventra Class 710 269 with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking departing from my local station at Crouch Hill on 28th May 2019. There were a couple of other railway photographers at this station as well as at Gospel Oak. 7/18</p><p>28/05/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>A very clean DB 66078 heading westbound through Crouch Hill station, on the London Overground GOBLIN, on 28th May 2019. 8/18</p><p>28/05/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Brand new Aventra Class 710261 with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking at Crouch Hill station, on 30th May 2019. 9/18</p><p>30/05/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>710262 with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking arriving at Crouch Hill station, on the afternoon of Friday, 9th August 2019. 10/18</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>710262, with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking, just departed from Crouch Hill station on the afternoon of Friday, 9th August 2019. 11/18</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Network Rail ballast regulator DR 77905 passing Crouch Hill station on the London Overground GOBLIN, heading towards Gospel Oak, on 18th December 2019. These On Track Machines are used for maintaining, renewing and enhancing the infrastructure of the national railway network. I had no idea this was due, it just happened to come through within seconds of my arriving on the station so it was a mad rush to get my camera out to capture it. Sometimes, railway photography is all a matter of luck. 12/18</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Brand new 710 269 departing from Crouch Hill station with a truncated London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to South Tottenham, on 3rd February 2020. Services are currently suspended between South Tottenham and Barking due to a freight train derailment between Walthamstow Queens Road and Leyton Midland Road stations that occurred at 6 a.m. on 23rd January 2020, which damaged two and a half miles of track. Network Rail has established that 39 new pieces of rail, each 126 metres long, will need to be installed along the affected section along with the replacement of 5,300 concrete sleepers, 900 wooden sleepers and 10,000 tonnes of ballast. Services are not expected to resume for several weeks; a replacement bus service is in operation between Walthamstow Central station (not actually on the GOBLIN) and Barking. Passengers between Walthamstow and South Tottenham have been advised to use the LUL Victoria Line between Walthamstow Central and Seven Sisters (close to South Tottenham) and which serves Blackhorse Road, another of the GOBLIN stations without a service at the moment. 13/18</p><p>03/02/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>710269, with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking, calling at Crouch Hill station on 1st December 2020. Despite trains on this route on this day (the last of the second full national lockdown) being lightly-loaded, they were still running at regular 15 minute intervals. 14/18</p><p>01/12/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>An almost deserted Crouch Hill station, apart from a friend of mine, also called David, inside the bus stop style waiting shelter, on the GOBLIN section of the London Overground looking towards Gospel Oak, on 1st December 2020, the last full day of the second national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. 15/18</p><p>01/12/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>After standing derelict and boarded-up for more years than I care to remember, despite being still open to passengers, the former ticket office at Crouch Hill station (see image <a href='/img/73/301/index.html'>73301</a>) on the London Overground GOBLIN section from Gospel Oak to Barking, has had a makeover and been transformed into a very nice coffee bar, as seen here on the afternoon of Friday, 14th January 2022. 16/18</p><p>14/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>710273, with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to the extended line's new terminus at Barking Riverside, arriving at Crouch Hill (my local station) at 11.30 on Friday, 22nd July 2022. 17/18</p><p>22/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>View from the eastbound platform at my local station at Crouch Hill, now part of the London Overground GOBLIN, on the afternoon of Tuesday, 15th November 2022. The building at the top of the steps is the former ticket office, which was disused and boarded-up for many years but has now been converted into a rather nice coffee bar. See also image <a href='/img/79/676/index.html'>79676</a>. 18/18</p><p>15/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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