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Wightman Road, LONDON, N4 1RH

The east side, between Duckett Road and Mattison Road.

The east side, between Mattison Road and Duckett Road.

View NE from Harringay West station, of one of the numerous transfer freights which ran southwards from Ferme Park Marshalling Yards to the Yards in the Finsbury Park/Holloway area and on by the Widened Lines and Blackfriars Bridge to the SR Yards. The locomotive is No. 68903, one of the numerous 0-6-0Ts of Gresley ex-GNR class J23 (LNER class J51/2, rebuilt as J50/2), built 11/24 as No. 3171, 1946 No. 8903, lasting as 68903 until 4/61.

Hornsey Electric Multiple Unit Depot (EMUD), also known as Hornsey TMD is a railway maintenance depot for First Capital Connect's Great Northern fleet of electric multiple units, situated in Hornsey, to the south of Hornsey Station on the East Coast Main Line.

View eastward at the south end of Ferme Park Up Yard, with the flyover behind. There were about 65 of these Stirling/Ivatt J52 saddle-tanks working from Hornsey and King's Cross Depots in the 1940's, substituted by Gresley J50's from about 1950 and then in part by Diesel shunters. The antiquated J52's must still have been popular with railwaymen, but they made such a noise constantly struggling on their own on the Ferme Park flyover that after the War local residents insisted on transfer freights over the flyover having an engine at each end, also whistling was forbidden at night. There was indeed constant activity day and night in these Marshalling Yards and added to the noise was the dirt that settled on everything, especially washing on clothes-lines.

View NE across the lines to the north of Harringay West station and the south end of the Ferme Park Yards; ex-Great Northern ECML. The class J freight, headed by Gresley J50 0-6-0T No. 68921, may well be going to South London via Blackfriars Bridge. Behind it another J50, No. 68926, is coming over the flyover from the Down Yard.

A mixture of anticipation and dread accompanied the abrupt introdution of these unfamiliar main-line Diesels onto the empty stock workings into King's Cross. Here the first Birmingham RC&W/Sulzer 1,160 hp Type 2 Bo-Bo, No. D5300, is on an Up van train at Harringay - on which hitherto steam locomotives had operated and for another four years would still do so. This Type 2 1,160 hp Bo-Bo (later class 26) began work here, but the class were soon sent up to the Scottish Region and worked there for 20 years or so, but were not a great success. This 'pioneer' Diesel is preserved at the Barrow Hill Roundhouse, Staveley.