Harringay Green Lanes railway station explained

Harringay Green Lanes
Symbol:Overground
Manager:London Overground
Owner:Network Rail
Locale:Harringay
Borough:London Borough of Haringey
Platforms:2
Fare Zone:3
Railcode:HRY
Coordinates:51.5774°N -0.0977°W
Years1:1 June 1880
Events1:Opened
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Access:yes
Dft Category:E

Harringay Green Lanes railway station is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in Harringay, north London. It is 4miles from (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction)[1] and is situated between and .

Services

All services at Harringay Green Lanes are operated by London Overground using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between and . During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.[2]

Connections

London Buses routes 29, 141, 341 and night route N29 serve the station.[3]

The station is a 0.36 mile (0.58 km) walk[4] from Harringay railway station on the East Coast Main Line.

History

It was opened on 1 June 1880 with the name Green Lanes, but has since been renamed a number of times:

There were originally wooden platform buildings, which were replaced by brick and concrete structures in the 1950s. The original ticket office at street level survived and in recent times has been converted into a café. To cope with the huge number of passengers visiting Harringay Stadium and Arena, both right next to the station, very long platforms were provided, but these were shortened in late 2003 due to subsidence. Just west of the station was a goods yard; this closed on 3 February 1964, and the site is now occupied by Railway Fields nature reserve.

Station infrastructure

In summer 2008, the station was repainted and re-signed in London Overground colours, with the green-painted staircase railings (for example) of the former Silverlink franchise giving way to Overground orange.

The station has no direct interchange to a tube station, despite the fact that the Piccadilly line runs directly beneath it and the distance between the two stations at either end of this section, and, is particularly long for the line. Manor House station is about 770yd away.Transfer on a single ticket is allowed between Harringay Green Lanes and nearby .

The station has step-free access from street to platform.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Padgett, David . Brailsford . Martyn . Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern . 4th . October 2016 . 1988 . Trackmaps . Frome . 978-0-9549866-8-1 . map 1B .
  2. Web site: London Overground Timetable: Gospel Oak to Barking. Transport for London. 2 January 2024.
  3. Web site: Buses from Harringay. 15 June 2019. TfL. 22 August 2021. 22 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210822160145/https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/harringay-a4-150619.pdf. dead.
  4. Measured using the measure distance function in Google Maps. The distance is measured from the street outside Harringay Green Lanes Station, via Umfreville Road, to the point on the bridge outside the station at Harringay Station.