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Brick Lane, ENFIELD, EN3 5BD

The bridge is over the London Overground between Southbury and Turkey Street. For a view down the line from the bridge and for the history of the line see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5460096

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. 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. This is the view from Brick Lane bridge. The next station in this direction is Turkey Street.

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. 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. This is the view from Brick Lane bridge. The next station in this direction is Turkey Street.

Woolworths local on the Hertford Road. 7 days from closure, the store has recently been broken into hence the boarded up window.

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. 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. This is the view from Brick Lane bridge. The next station in this direction is Southbury. The view looking in the other direction can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5460096

Carnegie Library of 1909, built to the designs of local district surveyor R. Collins. (Ref: The Buildings of England. London. 4: North (1998), p. 440)

Seen from the bridge carrying Carterhatch Lane. The line leaves the Enfield Town branch north of Edmonton Green and connects to the Liverpool Street to Cambridge mainline at Cheshunt. The line was opened in 1891 by the Great Eastern Railway and was originally known as the Churchbury Loop. Passenger services were short-lived in the early life of the line as the arrival of trams to Waltham Cross took away the trade. It survived as a freight route until the Great Eastern electrification by British Railways in the 1960's when passenger services were restored. Currently the passenger services route from Liverpool Street to Hertford East.