Turkey Street railway station

Turkey Street

Turkey Street Location of Turkey Street in Greater London
Location	Enfield
Local authority	Enfield
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	TUR
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	6
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05	0.316 million[1]
2005–06	0.286 million[1]
2006–07	0.443 million[1]
1 October 1891	Opened as Forty Hill
1 October 1909	Closed
1 March 1915	Re-opened
1 July 1919	Closed
21 November 1960	Re-opened as Turkey Street
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
External links	Departures • Layout
	Facilities • Buses
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Turkey Street railway station is located in the Bullsmoor area of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 6 and is served by Lea Valley Lines services. The station is operated by National Express East Anglia as are all trains serving it.

Contents 1 History 2 Service 3 Transport links 4 References 5 External links 6 Gallery

History

The railway line from Bury Street Junction, north of the current Edmonton Green station, to Cheshunt was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on October 1, 1891. It was known as the Churchbury Loop.

The district served by the line was still predominantly rural, and the coming of the tram to Waltham Cross in 1904 saw the railway unable to compete. Passenger services ceased on October 1, 1909, but were reinstated for the benefit of munitions workers between March 1, 1915 and July 1, 1919.

After that the line was only served by freight trains until the line was electrified as part of a wider scheme, and Turkey Street station reopened to passengers on November 21, 1960.^[2] The line is now known as the Southbury Loop.

The station was opened as Forty Hill railway station, and did not gain its current name until 1960. The goods depot at the station closed in 1966.^[3]

The current station building was built in the late 1980s. The previous and original station building had a prominent tall chimney stack for the station masters coal fire which brought the top of the chimney above platform level. The station itself is constructed on an incline and the ticket office area of the track is raised on an embankment so the chimney was very prominent. The interior of the original station consisted of a large ticket hall with the station master's office and serving hatch on the left hand side (From the entrance). A tunnel in front of you led to the stairs to the Cheshunt bound platform. This tunnel was used in the rebuild. To the right were the stairs to the Liverpool Street platform. The apertures that housed the stairs were also reused in the rebuild but the concrete steps were replaced with steel ones. The roof of the original station was triangular with a large chimney stack on top. When originally built the station was on the other side of the railway bridge and a wide footbridge over the Turkey Brook led directly to the Cheshunt bound platform. This entrance was disused from the early 1970s onwards and the former station building was converted to a newsagent and general store, the footbridge was used for storage for the shop and the entrance to the actual station area had a large iron gate but was bricked up when the station was rebuilt.

The platforms were of standard length and had large open fronted waiting areas of concrete walls and felt covered wooden roof with a long single bench along the rear wall. These were demolished when the station was rebuilt.

In the 1980s the station was served by British Rail Class 305 EMUs going to and from London Liverpool Street and Cheshunt. Around the same time as the rebuild the 305s were slowly replaced by British Rail Class 315. The Cheshunt service was extended to Hertford East in the late 1980s utilising the existing main line from Cheshunt to Broxbourne and the existing branch to Hertford East.

The trains are often used by St Ignatius' College and Lea Valley High School (prev The Bullsmoor School) pupils and is popular with commuters due to the amount of local parking.

Service

The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to Cheshunt, and two trains per hour to London Liverpool Street.

Transport links

London bus route 327.

References

External links

• Train times and station information for Turkey Street railway station from National Rail

Gallery

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Southbury		National Express East Anglia Lea Valley Lines		Theobalds Grove

Lea Valley Lines and Hertford East Branch Line Cheshunt via Southbury Bethnal Green • Bruce Grove • Cheshunt • Edmonton Green • Hackney Downs • London Liverpool Street • Rectory Road • Seven Sisters • Silver Street • Southbury • Stamford Hill • Stoke Newington • Theobalds Grove • Turkey Street • White Hart Lane Chingford Bethnal Green • Chingford • Clapton • Hackney Downs • Highams Park • London Liverpool Street • St James Street • Walthamstow Central • Wood Street Enfield Town via Seven Sisters Bethnal Green • Bruce Grove • Bush Hill Park • Cambridge Heath • Edmonton Green • Enfield Town • Hackney Downs • London Fields • London Liverpool Street • Rectory Road • Seven Sisters • Silver Street • Stamford Hill • Stoke Newington • White Hart Lane Hertford East via Tottenham Hale Angel Road • Bethnal Green • Brimsdown • Broxbourne • Cheshunt • Enfield Lock • Hackney Downs • Hertford East  • London Liverpool Street • Northumberland Park • Ponders End • Rye House • St Margarets • Stratford • Tottenham Hale • Waltham Cross • Ware

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