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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Indeed it does. I posted a link to a geographically London tube map some years back.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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It more or less does - I had friends who lived in the first house from Green Lanes down past the Salisbury - we would take tea in their front room and the cups would do a little dance every time a train went under us!
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Permalink Reply by 1ytq57smfw62d on
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It is never going to happen. It is about 1.4 miles between the two existing stations. I live on Seymour Road and it is less than 10 minutes walk to Turnpike Lane, Hornsey, Harringay and Harringay Green Lanes stations. The latter two are about to be hooked up to Thameslink. There are large stretches of London with much poorer network access.
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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?
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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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