View north from Theobalds Grove station

Image: © Marathon Taken: 27 Sep 2017

The line from Edmonton via Lower Edmonton to the centre of Enfield opened on 1st March 1849. The line from Bury Street Junction, north of Edmonton Green, to Cheshunt was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1st October 1891 and this is the line seen here at Theobalds Grove station. When it was opened the line was known as the Churchbury Loop. The district was still predominantly rural, and the coming of the tram to Waltham Cross in 1904 saw the railway unable to compete. Passenger services ceased on 1st October 1909, but were reinstated for munitions workers between 1st March 1915 and 1st July 1919. After that the line was used only by goods trains until electrified as part of a wider scheme at the start of the 1960s. The line is now known as the Southbury Loop. On 31st May 2015 all services here became part of the London Overground network. Theobalds Grove station was opened at the same time as the rest of the line on 1st October 1891, and closed in 1909, re-opened in 1915, closed again in 1919 and was finally re-opened again in 1960. The goods depot at the station closed in 1967. Its site is now the station car park. The current station building was built in the early 1980s along with several other stations on the line.

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