Harringay Green Lanes railway station

Services

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

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between and . During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.

Connections

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

The station is a 0.36 mile (0.58 km) walk 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).

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.

Station infrastructure

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 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, and , is particularly long for the line. Manor House station is about 770 yd away. Transfer on a single ticket is allowed between Harringay Green Lanes and nearby .

The station has step-free access from street to platform.

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References

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6. Measured using the measure distance function in [https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Harringay+Station/@51.5779888,-0.104524,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48761b92afa412f1:0xd2406f186a30d19e!8m2!3d51.577515!4d-0.106504 Google Maps]. The distance is measured from the street outside Harringay Green Lanes Station, via Umfreville Road, to the point on the bridge outside the station at Harringay Station.