2017

TL3000 : Entrance to Crews Hill station

taken 7 years ago, near to Crews Hill, Enfield, England

Entrance to Crews Hill station
Entrance to Crews Hill station
The Alexandra Palace-Hertford-Stevenage loop was built mainly as a by-pass for the approaches to King's Cross on the main line from Hatfield and was built to main line standards for much of its length. However, it has never carried regular long-distance passenger services and has always primarily been a suburban branch, apart from when there is engineering work or other disruption on the East Coast Main Line through Hatfield.

The line was opened as far as Enfield, which was then the terminus, on 1st April 1871. The line was extended to Cuffley from 4th April 1910 and on to Stevenage for freight on 4th March 1918, but passenger trains only started beyond Cuffley on 2nd June 1924.

North of Gordon Hill the line was laid across undulating countryside, its stations seeing only golfers and walkers. Crews Hill station opened with the line between Enfield and Cuffley on 4th April 1910 but only served a golf course, a few nurserymen’s greenhouses and a stud farm. The goods yard at Crews Hill was closed on 1st October 1962.

The Piccadilly line extension to Cockfosters took much of the traffic from the line, and the late 1940s and 1950s were described by Alan A Jackson in 'London's Local Railways' as "doldrum years for a line which smelt of decay and declines as grotty 'quad-arts' were trundled to and from Hertford North by filthy and now wheezing N2 tanks." The line was electrified in the 1970s.

This view is from the entrance on the up side. The stairs to both the up and down platforms are accessed through the tunnel ahead.

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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · London's Local Railways' as Doldrum Years [6] · Station Entrance [6] Title Clusters: · Entrance to Crews Hill station [2] ·
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TL3000, 40 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Marathon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 22 March, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 23 March, 2017
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 3096 0010 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:41.0638N 0:6.4221W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 3098 0010
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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