Cranley Gardens railway station

Cranley Gardens

Location
Place	Highgate
Local authority	Haringey
History
Opened by	Muswell Hill Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates	Opened 1902 Closed 1954
Replaced by	none
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Cranley Gardens railway station was a station in the Muswell Hill area of north London. It was located between Highgate station and Muswell Hill station at the junction of Muswell Hill Road and Cranley Gardens. Nothing remains of the station today and its site is now occupied by housing and a school.

History

The station was built by the Muswell Hill Railway (MHR) and opened on 2 August 1902 on the MHR's existing branch line from Highgate to Alexandra Palace. In 1911 the line was taken over by the Great Northern Railway. After the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies, the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER).

In 1935 London Underground planned, as part of its "New Works Programme" programme to take over the line from LNER together with the LNER's routes from Finsbury Park to Edgware and High Barnet, modernise it for use with electric trains and amalgamate it with the Northern Line.

How Cranley Gardens might have appeared on the London Underground Map today if the Northern Line extension from Highgate to Alexandra Palace and Finsbury Park had been completed and opened to passengers.

Works to modernise the track began in the late 1930s and were well advanced when they were halted by the Second World War. Works were completed from Highgate to High Barnet and Mill Hill East and that section was incorporated into the Northern Line. Further works on the section between Highgate and Alexandra Palace were postponed and the line continued under the operation of the LNER between 1939 and 1941. After the war, dwindling passenger numbers and a shortage of funds lead to the cancellation of the unfinished works in 1950 and passenger services to Cranley Gardens station were ended by British Railways on 3 July 1954 along with the rest of the line between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace.

The line continued to be used for goods until 18 May 1957 when it was closed completely. The track was subsequently removed and the buildings were demolished. The station buildings and platforms remained derelict for many years until demolished in the late 1960s and a school now occupies the site. The trackbed between Muswell Hill and Finsbury Park is now the Parkland Walk.

See also

• Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

External links

• Site of station on Multimap
• London's Transport Photographic Archive Cranley Gardens station in 1935
• Disused stations - Cranley Gardens

Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Highgate		EH&LR Alexandra Palace Line		Muswell Hill

Abandoned Works

		Abandoned Northern Heights Extension
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Muswell Hill towards Alexandra Palace		Northern line		Highgate towards Moorgate

Coordinates: 51°35′13″N 0°08′53″W / 51.58703°N 0.14804°W / 51.58703; -0.14804