Gospel Oak, London Overground, 2007-2023

A collection of my photos taken at Gospel Oak station, London Overground, at various times during a 16 years period between 2007 and 2023.
David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>313101, in the last weeks of the old Silverlink regime, departing from Gospel Oak station with a train from Stratford to Richmond, on 6th September 2007. The line was taken over by Transport for London and re-christened London Overground the following November. 1/16</p><p>06/09/2007<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Gospel Oak, looking west, in heavy snow on 20th January 2013. This station was opened as Kentish Town by the Hampstead Junction Railway in 1860 and renamed Gospel Oak in 1867. It was rebuilt in this sturdy style by the London Midland Region of BR in 1955. The bay platform for trains to Barking is down the far end on the right and opened in 1981 on the site of one closed in 1925 (when trains to Chingford were withdrawn) when trains from Barking were diverted here from Kentish Town. 2/16</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378210, with a London Overground service to Richmond, departing from Gospel Oak station in the heavy snow of a freezing Sunday afternoon, 20th January 2013. Most people who alighted here were armed with sledges, off to enjoy themselves on the slippery slopes of Parliament Hill which the line runs alongside just to the west of the station. 3/16</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</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 to Barking, waiting to depart from Gospel Oak. This view is looking west in heavy snow on 20th January 2013. 4/16</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>172006, on a London Overground GOBLIN service to Barking, waiting to depart from the bay platform at Gospel Oak station. The through platforms served by LO services between Stratford and Clapham Junction or Richmond are on the left. Until April 1981, trains from Barking on this line ran to Kentish Town on the Midland Main Line; the section that trains now follow from just west of Upper Holloway to Gospel Oak had been freight only since 1925. This bay platform also dates from the diversion of trains to Gospel Oak in 1981. The freight lines are on the right behind the train which make a junction with the LO electrified lines just to the west of the station, to which this view is looking, in the snow on 20th January 2013. Beyond the station, in the far right background, is Parliament Hill on the north side of the line and which was full of sledgers on this wintry Sunday afternoon and their shouts and squeals of laughter permeated through the blizzard across to the station. 5/16</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>Colas Rail Freight 66847 doing a Sir Cliff Richard, 'Travelling Light' as it heads east past Gospel Oak onto the Barking line, on 8th April 2014. The scene here has now changed with the addition of overhead wires. 6/16</p><p>08/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378221, with a London Overground service to Stratford, at Gospel Oak on 17th February 2016. 7/16</p><p>17/02/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710266 heading away from the camera departing from Gospel Oak with the 14.50 London Overground GOBLIN service to Barking, on the afternoon of Friday, 9th August 2019. 8/16</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378210 with a London Overground service from Stratford to Richmond departing west from Gospel Oak station, on the afternoon of Friday, 9th August 2019. On the right behind the fence, and at a slightly higher level, 710266 waits in the bay platform before departing eastbound for Barking. Gospel Oak Junction is in the background. 9/16</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>66119, coming from the Barking line, during a signal stop at Gospel Oak on the afternoon of Friday, 9th August 2019.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2139</a> 10/16</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378201, with a London Overground service to Stratford, departing from Gospel Oak, on 3rd February 2020. The bay platform for the LO GOBLIN service to Barking is on the left; however, as at the date of this photo, trains are only running on this service as far as South Tottenham, due to a freight derailment east thereof that damaged the track, which is likely to be out of action for several more weeks as Network Rail repair things. 11/16</p><p>03/02/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The street level entrance to Gospel Oak, as rebuilt in 1955 by BR London Midland Region and part of London Overground since 2007, on 21st August 2020. The platforms are on a high embankment and there are many steps. For decades passengers grew weary climbing these but relief came at last in recent years when the platforms were lengthened across the road bridge (on right) and lifts installed. 12/16</p><p>21/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378202, with a London Overground service to Stratford, arriving at Gospel Oak on 21st August 2020. 13/16</p><p>21/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378210 with a London Overground service to Hackney Wick (with replacement bus service just one stop from there to Stratford), departing from Gospel Oak on 1st January 2022. 14/16</p><p>01/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378205, with a London Overground service to Clapham Junction, arriving at Gospel Oak on the afternoon of New Year's Day, Saturday, 1st January 2022. 15/16</p><p>01/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710269 London Overground, arriving at the bay platform at Gospel Oak to form the 13.39 return GOBLIN service to Barking Riverside, on a freezing 25th January 2023. On the right, waiting to photograph a freight train that was due to pass at any moment, is my friend and fellow Railscot contributor Bill Roberton, more than 400 miles from his home in Scotland. 16/16</p><p>25/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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