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Alma Road, ENFIELD, EN3 4UG

The A110 is carried over Alma Road, railway and canal on a raised viaduct.

The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne via Waltham Cross was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15th September 1840. Ponders End station opened on the same day. The lines through Ponders End were electrified on 5th May 1969. This is the view from the down platform. The next station in this direction is Brimsdown.

Ponders End Station. The train stopped just here, and I thought this looked like a bit of a picture so I snapped it without even leaving my seat. Slightly fuzzy due to railway glass, but not too bad. Nigel Cox has done all the work and named the tower blocks, which are in the next square west, so here's his pic with info. Image

Colour-coded blocks. The rightmost one is actually in TQ3695. Over the near fence are allotments.

A distant glimpse from Lincoln Road.

The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne via Waltham Cross was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15th September 1840. Ponders End station opened on the same day. The lines through Ponders End were electrified on 5th May 1969. This is the view from the footbridge. A train bound for London Liverpool Street is just pulling in. The next station in this direction though is Brimsdown. On the left is one of the tower blocks which dominate the station - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5357726

These tower blocks totally dominate the area to the west of Ponders End station. This looks from Woodall Road across South Street.

Or at least the photographer thinks that this is what this derelict building was in 2007. Certainly the Ordnance Survey mapping of 1896, and later editions, show a Mission Room here on this site, although the tin sheet structure seen here must be a later building. (The co-ordinates are taken from the Where's the Path satellite imagery, not the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping, which is badly distorted here to accommodate the dual carriageway A110 Lea Valley Road, so that the subject and photographer locations appear to be in the middle of the road!) Update October 2018 Reviewing images on Streetview shows that by August 2008 the tilting tower had gone completely, and by September 2011 the whole building had been demolished, but nothing significant had then changed on the site by April 2018.

One of four large tower blocks on the Alma Road estate near Ponders End Station. They are colour coded, with different stripes on the side. This is Merlin, the blue one. The one nearest the station has recently been demolished.