Palace Gates railway station

Palace Gates (Wood Green)

Location
Place	Wood Green
History
Opened by	Great Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates	Opened 1878 Closed 1964
Replaced by	none

Palace Gates railway station was a railway station on the Palace Gates Line in Wood Green, north London. It was located on the corner of Bridge Road and Dorset Road.

The station was opened on 7 October 1878 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) as terminus of the line which bore its name. The previous, temporary terminus had been at the previous station, Noel Park and Wood Green, since the line had opened on 1 January 1878.

The station was opened to provide a means by which the GER could transport passengers to the nearby Alexandra Palace. It was thus in competition with the nearby Wood Green (Alexandra Park) station - now Alexandra Palace station - on the Great Northern Railway. A connection to Bowes Park on the GNR Hertford Loop Line which runs just north of the site of the terminus station was made in 1929 but it was only used for occasional freight trains.

Competing as it did with other nearby railway lines and the Underground's Piccadilly Line, the Palace Gates line was by the 1960s unprofitable and the line and the station were closed for passenger services on 7 January 1963 and for freight on 5 October 1964. Following closure, the station was demolished and housing built on most of the site . A short section of the station site at its north end is occupied by Network Rail sidings alongside which are traces of the platform ends.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bowes Park		Great Eastern Railway Palace Gates Line		Noel Park

External links

• http://www.subbrit.org.uk - Disused stations ; Palace Gates (Wood Green) Station
• London's Abandoned Stations - Palace Gates