Harringay Green Lanes railway station

Not to be confused with Harringay railway station.

Harringay Green Lanes

Entrance to westbound platform
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
Number of platforms	2
Accessible
Fare zone	3
Interchange	Harringay
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05	0.003 million
2005–06	0.003 million
2006–07	0.319 million
2007–08	0.228 million
1880	Opened
Lists of stations	DLR · Underground · National Rail · Tramlink
External links	Departures • Layout
	Facilities • Buses

Harringay Green Lanes railway station is a railway station in Harringay, North London. It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line between Crouch Hill and South Tottenham.

Service

Trains run every 15 minutes in each direction, towards either Gospel Oak or Barking. All passenger services from the station are operated by London Overground. The lines through the station are also used frequently by freight trains.

Transport links

London bus route 29, 141, 341 and Night route N29.

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 the goods yard; this closed on 3 February 1964, and is now 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 700 metres (2,300 ft) away. Transfer on a single ticket is allowed between Harringay Green Lanes and nearby Harringay.

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

Gallery

Images of Harringay Green Lanes Station

Entrance to eastbound platform   Looking east from the eastbound platform   Looking west from the eastbound platform

Bibliography

• Connor, J.E. (1993). The Tottenham joint lines: a photographic journey between Barking and Gospel Oak. Connor & Butler. ISBN 978-0947699208. 
• Lake, G.H. (1945). The Railways of Tottenham: a detailed description and historical survey of their development. Greenlake. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Harringay Green Lanes railway station from National Rail
• Barking & Gospel Oak Line Users Group Website
• 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
		Disused Railways
Crouch Hill		Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway		St Ann's Road