Can anyone tell be the year in which Harringay (formerly Harringay West)
station opened?

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Thanks in advance
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

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Can anyone tell be the year in which Harringay (formerly Harringay West)
station opened?

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Thanks in advance


According to John Young's "Great Northern Suburban" it opened on 1st May
1885.

In message , Jim Brittin
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In article ,
says...
Can anyone tell be the year in which Harringay (formerly Harringay West)
station opened?

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Thanks in advance


According to John Young's "Great Northern Suburban" it opened on 1st May

*Just* what I was after! Many thanks.

(All as part of a local history walk I'm doing in Stroud
Green/Harringay/Finsbury Park tomorrow and I wouldn't like railways to
be missed out. Pretty hard to miss out when you're taking about the
history of Finsbury Park, of course.......)
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Sat, 12 May 2007 17:49:15 +0100, Ian Jelf
wrote:

In message , Jim Brittin
writes
In article ,
says...
Can anyone tell be the year in which Harringay (formerly Harringay West)
station opened?

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Thanks in advance


According to John Young's "Great Northern Suburban" it opened on 1st May

*Just* what I was after! Many thanks.

(All as part of a local history walk I'm doing in Stroud
Green/Harringay/Finsbury Park tomorrow and I wouldn't like railways to
be missed out. Pretty hard to miss out when you're taking about the
history of Finsbury Park, of course.......)

Don't forget your brolley!
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

In message , Paul Corfield
writes
On Sat, 12 May 2007 17:49:15 +0100, Ian Jelf
wrote:

In message , Jim Brittin
writes
In article ,
says...
Can anyone tell be the year in which Harringay (formerly Harringay West)
station opened?

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Thanks in advance


According to John Young's "Great Northern Suburban" it opened on 1st May

*Just* what I was after! Many thanks.

(All as part of a local history walk I'm doing in Stroud
Green/Harringay/Finsbury Park tomorrow and I wouldn't like railways to
be missed out. Pretty hard to miss out when you're taking about the
history of Finsbury Park, of course.......)

Don't forget your brolley!

Actually, it wasn't too bad. The really heavy rain came at the end and
Finsbury Park railway bridge provided a handy umbrella in addition to my
own!

Actually doing the walk (which featured a lot of the abandoned Finsbury
Park - Highgate line) reminded me of what a lost opportunity the
abandonment of the New Works Programme was. Tubes stations at Stroud
Green and Crouch End would have been a real boon to an actually heavily
populated area and some of the links would have been really useful.
(Certainly more useful, I suspect, than the Mill Hill East branch has
ended up being?)

The Blackstock opposite the Twelve Pins isn't the most welcoming of pubs
to retire to afterwards, though....... :-)
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Sat, 12 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Stadium?

Where were these stations, then?

tom

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information distribution, vox humana, deviation, handle, feed, l.g. **

On Sun, 13 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

The Blackstock opposite the Twelve Pins isn't the most welcoming of pubs
to retire to afterwards, though....... :-)

For next time:

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs.../Finsbury_Park

tom

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information distribution, vox humana, deviation, handle, feed, l.g. **

In message , Tom
Anderson writes
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Stadium?

Where were these stations, then?

Harringay Green Lanes was originally called Harringay East, then
Harringay Stadium then Harringay Green Lanes. The stadium was a
greyhound track, on the site that is now Sainsbury's.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Sun, 13 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Tom Anderson
writes
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Stadium?

Where were these stations, then?

Harringay Green Lanes was originally called Harringay East, then
Harringay Stadium then Harringay Green Lanes.

Aha! Crafty.

The stadium was a greyhound track, on the site that is now Sainsbury's.

Fair enough. Vaguely ironically, i saw a fox there once, in the car park.

tom

--
information distribution, vox humana, deviation, handle, feed, l.g. **

In article ,
says...
In message , Tom
Anderson writes
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Ian Jelf wrote:

Google and Wikipedia and all my London books seem unable to give me a
date (though I seem to have become an expert on unwanted data about
Harringay East/Stadium/East/Green Lanes in the process!

Stadium?

Where were these stations, then?

Harringay Green Lanes was originally called Harringay East, then
Harringay Stadium then Harringay Green Lanes. The stadium was a
greyhound track, on the site that is now Sainsbury's.


Not quite true, it has been named Harringay Park for much of its life.

Harringay East was so named by British Railways.