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Wilson Street, LONDON, N21 1BS

The northbound platform can be seen to the left of the image.

Looking under the bridge from the southbound platform at Winchmore Hill Station.

View northward, towards Hertford North: ex-GNR (King's Cross) - Alexandra Palace - Enfield Chase - Hertford North - (Stevenage) Loop, electrified 1976.

This shows the 'up' (southbound) platform. Until 1965 the staircase on the 'down' side of the station was approached through a gabled entrance similar to the one on the 'up' side, hence the asymmetrical look of the buildings. The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1871.

The Alexandra Palace-Hertford-Stevenage loop was built mainly as a by-pass for the approaches to King's Cross on the main line from Hatfield and was built to main line standards for much of its length. However, it has never carried regular long-distance passenger services and has always primarily been a suburban branch, apart from when there is engineering work or other disruption on the East Coast Main Line through Hatfield. The line was opened as far as Enfield, which was then the terminus, on 1st April 1871. The line was extended to Cuffley from 4th April 1910 and on to Stevenage for freight on 4th March 1918, but passenger trains only started beyond Cuffley on 2nd June 1924. At the time it opened Winchmore Hill was 'undulating, abundantly wooded and agreeable' and was already a favourite place of residence for City men. The Piccadilly line extension to Cockfosters took much of the traffic from the line between Bowes Park and Gordon Hill and the late 1940s and 1950s were described by Alan A Jackson in 'London's Local Railways' as "doldrum years for a line which smelt of decay and declines as grotty 'quad-arts' were trundled to and from Hertford North by filthy and now wheezing N2 tanks." The line was electrified in the 1970s. This view is from the down platform. The next station in this direction is Grange Park.