Turkey Street railway station

Turkey Street railway station

Infobox London station
name = Turkey Street


railcode = TUR
manager = National Express East Anglia
zone = 6
locale = Enfield
borough = Enfield
owner = Network Rail
railexits0405 = 0.316
railexits0506 = 0.286
railexits0607 = 0.443
years = 1 October 1891
1 October 1909
1 March 1915
1 July 1919
21 November 1960
events = Opened as Forty Hill
Closed
Re-opened
Closed
Re-opened as Turkey Street
platforms = 2

Turkey Street railway station is located in the Bullsmoor area of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 6 and is served by Lea Valley Lines services. The station is operated by National Express East Anglia as are all trains serving it.

History

The railway line from Bury Street Junction, north of the current Edmonton Green station, to Cheshunt was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on October 1 1891. It was known as the "Churchbury Loop".

The district served by the line was still predominantly rural, and the coming of the tram to Waltham Cross in 1904 saw the railway unable to compete. Passenger services ceased on October 1 1909, but were reinstated for the benefit of munitions workers between March 1 1915 and July 1 1919.

After that the line was only served by freight trains until the line was electrified as part of a wider scheme, and Turkey Street station reopened to passengers on November 21 1960. [White, H.P., "A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 3 Greater London", David & Charles, 1987] The line is now known as the Southbury Loop.

The station was opened as Forty Hill railway station, and did not gain its current name until 1962. The goods depot at the station closed in 1966. [Brown, Joe, "London Railway Atlas", page 5, Ian Allan Publishing, 2006]

The current station building was built in the early 1980s. The previous and original station building was notable due to a prominent tall chimney stack for the station masters coal fire which brought the top of the chimney above platform level. The station itself is constructed on an incline and the ticket office area of the track is raised on an embankment so the chimney was very prominent. the interior of the original station consisted of a large ticket hall with the station master's office and serving hatch on the left hand side (From the entrance). There was a tunnel in front of you leading to the stairs to the Cheshunt bound platform. This tunnel was used in the rebuild. To the right were the stairs to the Liverpool Street platform. The apertures that housed the stairs were also reused in the rebuild but the concrete steps were replaced with steel ones. The roof of the original station was triangular with a large chimney stack on top. It is also of interest to note that when originally built the station was on the other side of the railway bridge and a large width footbridge over Turkey Brook led directly to the Cheshunt bound platform. This entrance was dissused in the early 1970s onwards and the former station was converted to a newsagent and general store, the footbridge was used for storage for the shop and the entrance to the actual station area had a large iron gate but was bricked up when the station was rebuilt.

The platforms themselves were of standard length and had large open fronted waiting areas of concrete walls and felt covered wooden roof with a long single bench along the rear wall. These were demolished when the station was rebuilt.

In the 1980s the station was served by British Rail Class 305 EMUs going to and from London Liverpool Street and Cheshunt. Around the same time as the rebuild the 305s were slowly replaced by British Rail Class 315. The Cheshunt service was extended to Hertford East in the late 1980s utilising the existing main line from Cheshunt to Broxbourne and the existing branch to Hertford East.

The trains are often used by St Ignatius' College and Lea Valley High School (prev The Bullsmoor School) pupils and is popular with commuters due to the amount of local parking.

ervice

The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to Cheshunt, and two trains per hour to London Liverpool Street.

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