View of the line as it veers off from the existing
Seven Sisters overground station in a North-Easterly direction
(left hand side of photo).
(Apr 2001)
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A closer view of the truncated spur at Seven Sisters.
For a page showing the platform disused but still in situ, click
here.
(Apr 2001)
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Under the bridge carrying Avenue Road. Facing east, back toward
Seven Sisters.
(Jan 2007)
Photo: Philip Lindhurst. ©
2007
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Similar view from the one above but showing the bridge and its
repairs.
(Jan 2007)
Photo: Philip Lindhurst. ©
2007
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The bricked up remains of the bridge carrying Cornwall Road.
The enclosed space is now used as a storage facility.
(Jan 2007)
Photo: Philip Lindhurst. ©
2007
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The remains of the coal office part of the station
building at West Green Road, March 2001 (the passenger part was
to the right of this).
Chris Hall informed that it was burnt out in June
2001. It was still there, albeit boarded up, in May 2002, but
by August 2003 it had been demolished and replaced by a red-brick
business site. Chris also made this interesting comment: "...although I'm sure the line could not
have made much revenue because of its round about route, it -
along with the Ally Pally branch - could have become light rail
or tram routes had they survived long enough."
The track bed used to run under the road in the direction
that the camera is facing but slightly to the right.
For a site showing the platform area before being
levelled, click
here.
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Opposite the West Green Road station site is this
wall. The track ran from left to right under the road, at an
angle to the parapet - the house seen to the right of the photo
is built on the in-filled line of the railway.
(July 2007)
Photo: Philip Lindhurst. ©
2007
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Heading toward the Palace Gates direction, this is the bridge
over Belmont Road.
(Jan 2007)
Photo: Philip Lindhurst. ©
2007
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View under Belmont Road, with evidence of bridge repair work,
facing north-west at the housing estate listed on maps now as
Ivatt Way.
(Jan 2007)
Photo: Philip Lindhurst. ©
2007
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The bridge at Belmont Road viewed from its northern
end.
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View eastwards from Westbury Avenue. Who would ever
randomly pass this place now, not knowing of its history, and
associate it with that of being an old railway?
(Feb 2004)
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Eastward view of the bridge over Westbury Avenue (left)
in the early 1980s, before the bridge reconstruction. Move your
cursor over the image to see that same view in Feb 2004.
The opposite view, i.e. westward, from the position
of the camera, would just show an ugly council estate built on
the route of the line.
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One of the line's stations was at Noel Park, at the
point at which the line crossed Wood Green High Road - the site
where the library and Wood Green shopping centre are now. This
building, now demolished, was suspected of having some connection
to the railway, most likely the goods site - David Pinnell email
to confirm that it was indeed part of the Noel Park station,
although what its function was remains unclear.
For Nick Catford's page showing the station, click here.
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Noel Park station sign.
As of Oct 2005, this was on display in the marvellous
North Woolwich Station Museum.
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Park Avenue, N22, a stone's throw from the old terminus
at Palace Gates. The bridge over the road has obviously gone
but the dip that the road still takes under the missing bridge
makes it abundantly clear that a railway used to cross over it
(not to mention the still extant bridge abutments).
The section of track bed on the other side of the
bridge leads to Station Road in Wood Green and is the only reasonable
stretch of trackbed identifiable as such still remaining. It
is perhaps surprising that it hasn't been developed into housing
thus far.
(Mar 2003)
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An original concrete post and an old rail that was
missed by the scrap metal merchants.
(Mar 2003)
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Looking towards the Wood Green direction in the early
1980s.
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Palace Gates station looking north. A housing development
stands on most of the platform area now.
For further photos of this station: www.disused-stations.org.uk
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The truncated north end of Palace Gates platform area
(looking south at the housing development built on its site),
still in use as a siding for the adjacent Bounds Green Depot.
There are no platform remains as such, only the banked up soil
and stone mix seen here.
(Feb 2005)
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The north end of Palace Gates platform site looking
north at the tracks leading up to the GNER lines. Bounds Green
depot is on the left.
(Feb 2005)
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