"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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Last week, Baz Marratxi asked:
Sorry to be ignorant but could somebody please tell me more
about Palace Gates ? Where, when, etc.

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When Palace Gates opened on 1878-10-07, it was the terminus of a
Great Eastern branch extending 2 miles from Seven Sisters station
on their line to Enfield. An intermediate station on the branch
was Green Lanes, later called Noel Park, and the branch had opened
that far on 1878-01-01. There was a plan to extend the branch
to the Alexandra Palace station then existing, which actually was
adjacent to the palace, but this never came to fruition.

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Thank you for a very interesting synopsis of the history of the Place Gates
line. However I would suggest that the main reason that the connection
between Palace Gates and (the then) Alexandra Palace station was not
progressed, would be due to the difference in height between the two
locations. As you note, the original Alexandra Palace station was part of
the "Northern Heights". This building can still be seen on the skyline from
the station now known as "Alexandra Palace" (and provided quite a spectacle
when it caught fire a few years ago). The gradient necessary for a link line
would probably have required the use of rack and pinion!