Intermodal Through Harringay

Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 12 Feb 2013

A Freightliner Class 66 (66955) brings the 4M94 Felixstowe South to Lawley Street service through Harringay Green Lanes on a grey and chilly February morning. The concrete piles on either side of the tracks bear witness to the history of the station. The station opened as Green Lanes in 1880 - originally with wooden platforms and buildings. Concrete and brick structures replaced these in the 1950's when the station was rebuilt and became Harringay Stadium - named after the greyhound racing stadium which was situated right next to the railway. To handle the large number of people attending both the stadium and the adjacent Harringay Arena, the station had extra long platforms. The Arena closed as a sporting venue in 1958 and the Stadium closed in 1987. The platforms were shortened in 2003 due to subsidence (and no real need for them to be so long any more!) The concrete pillars are all that is left of those long platforms. However, some of them have found a new use - the path alongside leads to a raised platform (visible beside the train) to allow crew changes for passing freight trains.

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