Angel Road railway station

Angel Road

The sole entrance on Conduit Lane
Angel Road Location of Angel Road in Greater London
Location	Edmonton
Local authority	Enfield
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Station code	AGR
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05	17,074
2005–06	15,786
2006–07	16,368
2007–08	32,090
2008–09	32,394
2009–10	26,960
2010–11	28,646
1840	Opened
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Angel Road railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield at Edmonton in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Greater Anglia. It is partially located beneath the A406 road (which is named Angel Road at that point). Due to reconstruction of the A406 in the mid-1990s (involving grade-separation), the station no longer has an entrance on Angel Road, with the only access via a footpath running south from Conduit Lane to the north. The station is unstaffed.

Services

Prior to December 2005 the typical off-peak service from the station was one train per hour to Bishop's Stortford and one train per hour to London Liverpool Street.

As a result of timetable changes Angel Road now only gets one train a day to and from Liverpool Street, with the remainder of the service operating to and from Stratford. There is no service on weekdays before 05:55, between 10:00 and 15:45, or after 20:00, and no service at weekends or public holidays.

History

The station was opened on 15 September by the Northern and Eastern Railway as Edmonton although it was situated ¾ mile from the village.

The Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1844 who took over operation of the line. The line was initially laid to a gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) but already this had been identified as non standard and between 5 September and 7 October 1844 the whole network was re-laid to 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.

The station was renamed as Water Lane on 1 March 1849 by the Eastern Counties Railway when the station became a junction station with the branch to Lower Edmonton (low level) railway station to the north west being opened.

The station was taken over by the Great Eastern Railway in 1862 and renamed Angel Road on 1 January 1864. It had a small goods yard to the west of the station and Tottenham Gas works were located to the south of the station.

It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.

Regular passenger services ceased on the Lower Edmonton Low Level line in 1939 although it was still used as a diversionary route.

The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

Freight services ceased in 1964 on the Lower Edmonton Low Level line and the line was lifted the following year.

The Lea Valley line between Copper Mill Junction and Cheshunt was electrified at 25 kV in 1969.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Recent History

With the privatization of the UK's railways in 1994 operation of the station was initially allocated to a business unit which succeeded the old British Railways structure before being taken over by West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) in January 1997. Initially owned by Prism Rail, National Express took over operation in July 2000. In 1994 responsibility for the operational infrastructure passed to Railtrack.

The WAGN franchise was replaced in 2003 by the 'One' franchise although this was renamed National Express East Anglia.

The following year following financial difficulties Railtrack was replaced by Network Rail.

In February 2012 operation of the station changed once again with Dutch group Abellio winning the franchise.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Angel Road railway station from National Rail
• grid reference TQ351922

Gallery

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  View southwards towards the A406 Angel Road (North Circular Road), no longer having an access to the station.

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  View northwards towards Conduit Lane, visible far in the distance beyond the station footbridge.

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  Signage on northbound platform with National Express East Anglia logo on right.

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  View southwards from Conduit Lane, footpath visible to the right of the tracks.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Northumberland Park		Greater Anglia Lea Valley Lines West Anglia Main Line		Ponders End
		Future Development
Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Northumberland Park towards		Crossrail Line 2		Ponders End towards Hertford East
	Historical railways
Northumberland Park		Great Eastern Railway Lea Valley Lines		Lower Edmonton (Low Level) Line and station closed