Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay Piccadilly Line Station
I've set up the Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/HarringayPiccadillyLineStation/
because I'd like to gather a better understanding of the support for Piccadilly Line access at the Harringay Green Lanes Overground station.
It seems like such a waste of a good transport interconnect opportunity -- has anyone tried again since 1929?
"Why There Isn't a Tube Station
When the northern extension of the Piccadilly Line from Finsbury Park was announced in 1929, Underground stations were planned at the northern and southern ends of Harringay, at Turnpike Lane and Manor House. The line was to pass underneath Harringay without stopping there, and the Harringay Ratepayers Association led a spirited campaign for a station for Harringay, next to the Salisbury Hotel at the junction of Green Lanes and St Ann's Road. However, the railway company insisted that the required average speed for the Piccadilly Line would not allow another stop at an extra station, and the campaign eventually subsided.
Oddly enough, the stretch between Turnpike Lane and Manor House is one of the longest gaps between stations on the whole underground network."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ptop/plain/A842942 (http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A842942)
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I think this link will work better Michael - http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A842942 (So I've added it in brackets to your post).
When I wrote that article, it was a BBC site, but no longer is.
As far as a Harringay tube station is concerned, I'd be extremely surprised if scarce funding was ever allocated to that particular venture, as much as I'm sure we'd all love it.
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Permalink Reply by markb on
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Not likely to happen, the best shot at this would be piggy backing on cross-rail 2, but Turnpike Lane has been picked, probably because of the bus station and being at the start of the Wood Green shopping strip.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Haringey Green lanes station move West a little to integrate with Harringay station should the Boris rail-orbital plans ever come to fruition.
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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Interesting stuff! I've often wondered why MH isn't on the Victoria Line, since in my head at least it seems to plot a direct course from Seven Sisters down to Finsbury Park more or less along the route where the station sits. Why was it made Piccadilly only in the first place, I wonder?
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Permalink Reply by Karen Alexander on
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I read somewhere that there is no underground in MH because they couldn't dig deep enough without disturbing the old plague pits!
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Sounds more like fiction to me, Karen (it's the sort of thing that Ben Aaronovitch might think up). The northernmost plague pit I can quickly find reference to is underneath Islington Green. There is, though, a Piccadilly Line reference in this article which claims to explain the sharp bends between Knightsbridge and South Kensington (though I think it's just following the streets layout).
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Permalink Reply by SarahC on
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This says there were plans for a Victoria Line station, but they were dropped in 1954 - it doesn't say why, though.
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Permalink Reply by Paul on
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There is a ventilation shaft for the underground in Colina Road just off Green Lanes which could have been the station site between Manor House and Turnpike Lane if ever such a project had gone ahead. It does indicate the Piccadilly Line runs more or less along Green Lanes.
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As I understand the history, Paul, the now sadly defaced Colina Road Shaft Building was never intended as anything other than a shaft. A station to have been called 'St Ann's Road' had been initially been proposed when the Piccadilly Line extension being was planned in the 1920s. Transport historians seem to assume that given the proposed name and TfL's normal practice of choosing corner sites at key junctions, the site would have been at the corner of St Ann's Road. There's more on this and the almost-but-not-quite 1901 Harringay tube station here.
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The line must run directly under green lanes as you can hear and feel the trains going by when in some shops/restaurants. Would be great to link it with the Harringay green lanes station as tbh that line goes nowhere useful! I haven't used it once!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Jayvee - hop on to Gospel Oak and Parliament Hill and Hampstead Heath are open to you. Or change there and it gets you out west London way and down to Clapham Junction. The other way you can pick up easy connections at Barking out to Essex. Use it all the time
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