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Station Road, LONDON, N11 1QH

View northward, under Friern Barnet Lane Bridge towards Hatfield, Hitchin, Peterborough and the North. This coal train is on the Up Fast running Class E (partially fitted), with BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 No. 92181. (See also Image).

The original name for the area was Colney Hatch, as in many of the local roads, but since the hospital was built in the 1800s (now a housing estate in the original buildings) some residents complained they were all being associated with mental patients, and the council changed the name to New Southgate, not that it was any newer than Southgate (indeed most of the buildings are older, being Victorian) but a new part of it.

Class 313 units depart the station with a stopping service to Welwyn Garden City. As the station is unmanned for much of the day, a large mirror is provided so that the driver can watch passengers boarding and alighting. Beyond the station is the bridge carrying Friern Barent Road. Beyond, a second bridge carries the A109 Oakleigh Road North/South (it changes name in the vicinity of the railway bridge). Beyond that is Barnet Tunnel.

The Great Northern Railway opened its line between Maiden Lane and Peterborough on 7th August 1850 on which date what is now New Southgate station opened as Colney Hatch station. The station was provided for the benefit of the Second Middlesex County Asylum being built at Colney Hatch at that time. The name subsequently changed to Southgate and Colney Hatch on 1st February 1855; to New Southgate and Colney Hatch on 1st October 1876; to New Southgate for Colney Hatch on 1st March 1883; to New Southgate and Friern Barnet on 1st May 1923; and finally to New Southgate on 18th March 1971. This view is looking north from near the end of the down slow platform. The fast lines are to the right, beyond the railings. The bridge ahead carries Friern Barnet Road over the four lines. The next station in this direction is Oakleigh Park - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2529502

It looks as though this used to be vehicular access, but there are now bollards behind where the photographer was standing. Though there still seems to be access if you are walking.

Long since closed to road traffic and generally negelcted, this was the original access to the station on the west side of the line and possibly served a small gas works located further down the hill as well. Behind the wall, through a gap in which a late morning commuter is walking, is Princes Park Manor, the one-time Colney Hatch asylum. The road that is visible through the gap is Regal Drive.

Latterly a public house, but now closed.

The Great Northern Railway opened its line between Maiden Lane and Peterborough on 7th August 1850 on which date what is now New Southgate station opened as Colney Hatch station. The station was provided for the benefit of the Second Middlesex County Asylum being built at Colney Hatch at that time. The name subsequently changed to Southgate and Colney Hatch on 1st February 1855; to New Southgate and Colney Hatch on 1st October 1876; to New Southgate for Colney Hatch on 1st March 1883; to New Southgate and Friern Barnet on 1st May 1923; and finally to New Southgate on 18th March 1971. This view is of the down slow platform. The fast lines are to the right, beyond the railings.