Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Manor House Station Reopening?
Hi all,
Does anyone have a clue when TfL are planning to re-open Manor House tube station? It's not that we're mad keen to use it, but it is our nearest and will need to start soon as work picks up again...
Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by 0ertmo4cbqhbd on
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Hi,
So we checked this on tfl yesterday. There seems to be a few more stations being opened within the next couple of weeks.
They did issue a list of a few that will not be for the foreseeable. Manor House being one of them.
You never know though, things change daily.
Hope this helps?
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HThanks Angela, yes, those reopened ones have been that way for a coue of weeks.... There's an odd push/pull between demand and safety I guess. Have to see what happens as numbers increase...
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Whenever it does reopen, with its seven entrances there is the capability for segregated one-way routes in and out, at the cost to some of crossing the road once outside.
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Has anyone seen an update on this?
It's possible that the closure of Manor House is making the buses on Green Lanes more full, which is not ideal....
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Permalink Reply by KP on
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And also Finsbury Park more full as well as that's the nearest station if you can't use Manor House
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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Surprised users have not petitioned TFL to Open it
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It's unusual.
Only 14 tube stations remain closed of the 40-odd closed when this all started. Of the 14, seven are lift-only, three are very close to another station (e.g. Charing Cross/Embankment), and Heathrow Terminal 4 station has no use since Terminal 4 is closed to flights. They're all understandably closed.
That leaves Manor House and two others (South Wimbledon and Stepney Green) as outliers where the factors above do not apply.
My guess is that all three stay closed because all three have multiple bus services to a nearby larger station which is also an interchange between Tube lines. The 29, 253, 254 and 259 all do the Manor House - Finsbury Park run. The one-way system at Finsbury Park (in via the new back entrance, out via Station Place) presumably controls social distancing at the cost of a longer queue to get in.
It is surprising because Manor House is laid out to permit one-way routes between platforms and street.
It's also surprising because Manor House is in the top third, roughly, on the list of busiest tube stations; the other two are much less busy.
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Extra comments.
1. Below-ground stations must legally - after the Kings Cross fire - have a minimum staffing number present. If not, they must close.
2a. If Finsbury Park has to be closed, that gives TfL a really big problem given the number of users - tube-to-tube, tube-to-rail, tube to bus interchanges.
2b. Manor House station staff are, I think, in a group managed from Finsbury Park, since it's the largest focus of a group of local stations which are managed as a group..
3. So probably best operationally for TfL to transfer staff from Manor House to Finsbury Park to avoid that risk of closure - I'd guess the TfL risk assessment would read as much.
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So have they TFL Furloughed Staff of closed Stations ?
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