Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay Station Showing Hogs Back c 1960
Harringay Station was called Harringay West between 1951 and 1971. So I'm plumping for a circa date in between the two.
The ridge of land upon which Mountview and Ridge Roads are now built used to be called the Hog's Back. After the area was built up, the Eastern end of that ridge used to be occupied by two extremely large Edward houses and allotments. You can see the two large old houses at the end of Mountview Road in the centre of this picture
The ridge was also a favourite for young boys to go train spotting. You can just about make out a footpath crossing towards the top of the hill. In the rather unlovely 1970s Chettle Court was built.
The map below is roughly contemporary with the image.
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Comment by Gordon T on December 8, 2017 at 13:37
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I was going to guess nearer 1951 from the clerestory-roof second carriage which would have been pretty vintage passenger stock by then.
But a close look shows it has an extra wheel and other apparatus underneath - It's a dynamometer car for testing locomotive performance. Perhaps this one since the roof profile and the window layout is the same - http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/rolling-stock/gwr-coaches/gwr-dy...
An extra mystery.
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There's a reference to it being withdrawn in 1961 here https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/keyword/dynamometer;gwr/
if my original supposition is right. Two other dynamometer coaches are also preserved but have different roofs.
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Comment by Hugh on December 8, 2017 at 14:28
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Thanks Gordon.
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Comment by Peter John Morris on December 15, 2017 at 21:38
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Post-1957 as the locomotive is displaying the later BR totem on the tender; and yes it’s the old LNER dynamometer car.
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Comment by Richard Woods on December 16, 2017 at 17:06
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Anything to do with the Hogs Back brings back memories for me and my older brothers. It was a favourite route home from Stationers to Frobisher. Much innocent and some not so innocent fun was had there by me between 54 and 59 and them between 46 and 52ish.
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Having moved out of the 'hood to near the South Devon Railway I went to take a look. Coach No7 has distinctive 'curly' door handles and in the B&W photo they are straight. There is also a 'bow' in the centre of the coach for observation which again is hard to make out from the pic. I have included an interior shot so you can see it is quite spartan and businesslike for housing all the recording equipment. Amazing that the same coach is still in existence.
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Comment by Glenn Wallis on January 5, 2018 at 2:02
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Just come across this photo and I have to say there is no way that this is a GWR vehicle, it clearly of GNR/LNER heritage. The LNER used a dynamometer car inherited from the North Eastern Railway and now preserved with Mallard at the National Railway Museum in York. In spite of the suggestion of underfloor equipment I am going to identify this vehicle as the GNR Directors' Saloon which at the time of the photograph was serving as the Eastern Region General Manager's saloon and was stabled at Hornsey.
Here is the link to the owning group's web page http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/howlden/index.html
I have enjoyed tea and cakes on this vehicle a number of times and so can you on a few occasions during the summer months.
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