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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

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)

Tags for Forum Posts: Green Lanes, Harringay, Line, Piccadilly, Tube

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Back in the 50s we were always puzzled that they put the station at Manor House and not closer to Harringay Arena - it always seemed so obvious. In fact of course a stop at the Umfreville junction would have been pretty much central to the Turnpike to Finsbury stretch. Too obvious?

Manor House was such an important junction for tram routes (the 21, 29 and 51 north-south and the 27, 59 and 79 east-west) as well as bus routes - and therefore tube interchange  - that even before the Piccadilly line extension in the early 1930s there was a mid-1920s proposal to extend the line just one stop to Manor House. Bums on seats..... much though I'd love having a station at the end of the road.  

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