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London Overground Class 710 units, 2019-2023

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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>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. 5/27</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. 6/27</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>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. 7/27</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Blackhorse_Road'>Blackhorse Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>710262 with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking departing from the 1981 station at Blackhorse Road and about to pass the site of the 1894 station, beyond the bridge with a DW type bus crossing, in pouring rain on 12th August 2019. Since the station's re-siting in 1981 giving it a direct connection with the LUL Victoria Line, Blackhorse Road is now the busiest intermediate station on the GOBLIN line. 9/27</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Bushey'>Bushey</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710263, with a Watford Junction to Euston Overground service, calling at the ex-LNWR 'New Lines' station at Bushey on 18th December 2019. To enable these lines to serve the town centre at Watford High Street, they were diverted away from the main line at Bushey through new sharply-curved platforms and then onto a lofty curved viaduct to a junction with the Rickmansworth line, south of High Street station, with trains utilising the Rickmansworth branch back to the main line at Watford Junction. Passenger trains to Rickmansworth ceased in 1952 (and over its offshoot branch to Croxley Green in 1996), thus today one section of the Watford & Rickmansworth line is still served while the rest has been completely abandoned. Bakerloo Line tube trains also once came this way to Watford Junction but became peak hours only north of Queen's Park in June 1965. These ceased altogether in 1982 but a full day service of Bakerloo trains as far as Harrow & Wealdstone only was restored in 1984. 10/27</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Bushey'>Bushey</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710 258, running third rail, with a London Overground service from Euston to Watford Junction, arriving at Bushey on 18th December 2019. Most people still remember this station under its former name of Bushey & Oxhey but which fell foul of the old B.R. regime's mania for shortening station names with an '&' in them, in the 1970s. As at the date of this photo, a few class 378 units still run on this route for the time being and, of course, remain the mainstay of the main LO routes from Stratford to Richmond or Clapham Junction. 11/27</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Watford_High_Street'>Watford High Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Watford_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Watford and Rickmansworth Railway</a></small></p><p>710257, with a London Overground service from Euston to Watford Junction, departing from its penultimate stop at Watford High Street on 18th December 2019. Until 1982, LUL Bakerloo Line trains also ran through here to and from Watford Junction too and still do further down the line but now start and terminate at Harrow & Wealdstone. The Bakerloo always seems to wind up with the Underground's oldest trains; in 1982 they were all 1938 stock and now in 2022 is worked with 1972 stock. 12/27</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/K/Kensal_Green'>Kensal Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710 259, working third rail, calling at Kensal Green with a London Overground service from Euston to Watford Junction, on 4th January 2020. This station is also served by Bakerloo Line trains from Elephant & Castle to Harrow & Wealdstone. Although the electrified DC New Lines had opened in 1912, this station did not open until 1916 and is not to be confused with Kensal Rise, on the London Overground overhead electric route from Stratford to Richmond/Clapham Junction, that was originally known as Kensal Green between its opening in 1873 until renamed in 1890. 14/27</p><p>04/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/K/Kilburn_High_Road'>Kilburn High Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710259, working third rail, arriving at Kilburn High Road station with a London Overground service from Euston to Watford Junction, on 4th January 2020. This station was opened by the L&NWR as Kilburn & Maida Vale in 1852 and these are actually the platforms formerly on the down slow main lines. When the DC electrified 'New Lines' opened in 1912, there was insufficient room on the north side for new platforms so the slow lines were moved to what had been the fast lines with new tracks for fast trains constructed further south. The station was renamed Kilburn High Road in 1923 and the remains of the main line platforms were swept away during the electrification of the WCML in the early 1960s. 15/27</p><p>04/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead_Park'>Wanstead Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>Freightliner 66540, heading east through Wanstead Park, as Bombardier Aventra 710265 arrives with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Barking to Gospel Oak, on 6th October 2020. 16/27</p><p>06/10/2020<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. 17/27</p><p>01/12/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking'>Barking</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>710 London Overground unit just arrived at Barking with a service from Gospel Oak on 24th June 2021. London Overground services are to be extended from here to Barking Riverside, which is currently under construction. When open, trains will need to cross the Barking Flyover to get to the Riverside line and will no longer serve this bay platform, dating from the station's reconstruction between 1959 and 1962. 18/27</p><p>24/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead_Park'>Wanstead Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>Wanstead Park, now part of the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, on 8th July 2021. I remember this station as a youth in the 1960s when it still had its original serrated wooden canopies, swept away in the 1970s and replaced with ghastly bus stop style waiting shelters with no regard for architectural merit and none whatsoever for passenger comfort. The shelters seen now replaced those that replaced the canopies. Similar canopies existed at Leyton Midland Road and Walthamstow (renamed Walthamstow Queen's Road in 1968) while those at Blackhorse Road were removed long before the station was re-sited in 1981 to provide better interchange with the LUL Victoria Line. 710267 heads away from the camera as it departs for Barking. 19/27</p><p>08/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>710256 about to depart from the new London Overground GOBLIN terminus at Barking Riverside with the 12.03 service to Gospel Oak, on Friday, 22nd July 2022 which thankfully was nowhere near as hot as the stultifying 40.6C heatwave that wrecked the station's Grand Opening four days earlier. Only a handful of trains ran before the station shut up shop due to problems with the track and overhead wires caused by the heat. 20/27</p><p>22/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>Interior of 710273, with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak, displaying the new destination of Barking Riverside on 22nd July 2022. 21/27</p><p>22/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>710273 at Barking Riverside, terminus of the new London Overground GOBLIN extension from Barking, waiting to depart with the 12.18 service to Gospel Oak, on Friday, 22nd July 2022. 22/27</p><p>22/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>Zoom lens view of 710258, with a London Overground GOBLIN service, arriving at its pristine new terminus at Barking Riverside, just after mid-day on Friday, 22nd July 2022. It will then form the return 12.33 departure to Gospel Oak. 23/27</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>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. 24/27</p><p>22/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Willesden_Junction_Low_Level_New_Lines'>Willesden Junction Low Level [New Lines]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>710376, with a London Overground service from Watford Junction to Euston arriving at Willesden Junction Low Level, in searing heat on the afternoon of Saturday, 6th August 2022. The Low Level platforms are also served by the LU Bakerloo Line. 25/27</p><p>06/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Harringay_Green_Lanes'>Harringay Green Lanes</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>710272, London Overground from Barking to Gospel Oak (services between Barking Riverside and Barking were suspended on the Bank Holiday) arriving at Harringay Green Lanes on 29th August 2022. 26/27</p><p>29/08/2022<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. 27/27</p><p>25/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

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