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Harringay Green Lanes railway station

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Harringay Green Lanes is a station on the Suffragette line of the London Overground 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.

LocationHarringay
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General information
LocationHarringay
Local authorityLondon Borough of Haringey
Managed byLondon Overground
Owner
Station codeHRY
DfT categoryE
Number of platforms2
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone3
OSIHarringay National Rail[2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2020–21Decrease 0.618 million[3]
2021–22Increase 1.025 million[3]
2022–23Increase 1.106 million[3]
2023–24Increase 1.345 million[3]
2024–25Increase 1.425 million[3]
Key dates
1 June 1880Opened
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Coordinates51.5774°N 0.0977°W / 51.5774; -0.0977
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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.

Design

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 step-free access from street to platform.

Location

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 is a 0.36 mile (0.58 km) walk[5] from Harringay railway station on the East Coast Main Line. A single track, electrified connection from the eastbound line from Gospel Oak at Harringay Park Junction to the ECML at Ferme Park sidings is located to the west of the station, but isn't used by any scheduled passenger service (only empty stock movements and occasional engineering and freight trains).

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

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Services

All services at Harringay Green Lanes are operated by London Overground using Class 710 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside. During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.[7]

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