Upper Holloway Station

Image: © Martin Addison Taken: Unknown

The station as it was in the late 1980's - a decrepit and depressing place. A Stratford based Metropolitan-Cammell diesel multiple unit bound for Barking stops to collect a solitary passenger. The embankment has allotments - some of them tended; others not - which have long since gone, replaced in part by access ramps when the station was modernised. The siding to the right of the through tracks was once a headshunt and loop for sidings to the north of the line but these have long since gone - replaced by the new Holloway Bus Garage - and what remains of the loop has been subsumed by undergrowth. The loop to the right of the tracks is still in use. This photo is taken from the original station footbridge which, whilst still in situ, has subsequently been closed to the public - presumably for safety reasons. The domed spire on the horizon belongs to the Boston Arms on the corner of Dartmouth Park hill and Junction Road.

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