Harringay Green Lanes railway station is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in Harringay, north London. It is 4 miles 61 chains (7.7 km) from St Pancras (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction)[4] and is situated between Crouch Hill and South Tottenham.

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Harringay Green Lanes
The station in 2020, looking west
Harringay Green Lanes Location of Harringay Green Lanes in Greater London
Location	Harringay
Local authority	London Borough of Haringey
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	HRY
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	3
OSI	Harringay [2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2016–17	0.409 million[3]
2017–18	0.723 million[3]
2018–19	1.075 million[3]
2019–20	0.928 million[3]
2020–21	0.618 million[3]
Key dates
1 June 1880	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51.5774°N 0.0977°W / 51.5774; -0.0977
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Services

Trains run every 15 minutes in each direction, towards either Gospel Oak or Barking Riverside. All passenger services from the station are operated by London Overground. The lines through the station are also used frequently by freight trains.[5] Electrification work on the route (including bridge rebuilding, track lowering and platform lengthening) saw the service suspended on weekends for a year from June 2016, whilst weekday services terminated at South Tottenham until 23 September; thereafter there were no trains at all until February 2017 (when weekday services resumed).

Connections

London Buses routes 29, 141, 341 and night route N29 serve the station.[6]

The station is a 0.36 mile (0.58 km) walk[7] 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:

• Harringay Park, Green Lanes (1883)
• Harringay Park (18 June 1951)
• Harringay Stadium (27 October 1958)
• Harringay East (12 May 1990)
• Harringay Green Lanes (8 July 1991)

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, Turnpike Lane and Manor House, is particularly long for the line. Manor House station is about 770 yards (700 m) away. Transfer on a single ticket is allowed between Harringay Green Lanes and nearby Harringay.

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

Gallery

References

Bibliography

• Connor, J.E. (1993). The Tottenham joint lines: a photographic journey between Barking and Gospel Oak. Connor & Butler. ISBN 978-0-947699-20-8.
• Lake, G.H. (1945). The Railways of Tottenham: a detailed description and historical survey of their development. Greenlake.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harringay Green Lanes railway station.

• Train times and station information for Harringay Green Lanes railway station from National Rail
• Barking & Gospel Oak Line Users Group Website
• Harringay Online – Local Community Website for area around Harringay, Green Lanes Station
• Pictures of the station and its environs on the Harringay Flickr group
• Harringay Online's Harringay Timeline
• Article on Transition Finsbury Park Website telling the story of planting fruit trees on unused land around the station entrances.

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Crouch Hill towards Gospel Oak		Gospel Oak to Barking line		South Tottenham towards Barking Riverside
Disused railways
Crouch Hill		Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway		St Ann's Road