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The Broadway, LONDON, N9 0TR

This used to be Edmonton Green shopping mall

A war memorial at Edmonton Green, in the suburbs of north London, photographed on a dull December day. The memorial is located on a roundabout, with no formal route for pedestrian access.

These are a very distinctive feature for rail travellers on the line between Seven Sisters and Cheshunt.

Looking north-northeast.

Opened in 1872 as Edmonton (High Level) on the Great Eastern Railway's line from London Liverpool Street to Broxbourne. It offered a more direct route to London than the nearby Image and rapidly became the main station. It was renamed Lower Edmonton (High Level) in 1883, and became Edmonton Green in 1992. View north towards Southbury and Broxbourne, also the short Enfield Town branch.

View northward, towards Enfield Town, also Cheshunt via the Churchbury Loop: ex-GER ('West Anglia') suburban lines from Liverpool Street. The station, for over 50 years only on the Enfield line, was named 'Lower Edmonton High Level' until 28/9/92, the 'Low Level' station being on the original, little-used line from Angel Road. The Churchbury Loop, which branches off nearly a mile to the north at Bury Street Junction, was a late (October 1891) and over-ambitious 'mistake' on the part of the Great Eastern Railway: it failed to attract 'commuters' and its passenger service was withdrawn after a few years (September 1909). However, when the lines from Liverpool Street to Bishop's Stortford and Hertford East, also to Enfield Town, were electrified in November 1960 the Loop was renewed and revived in favour of the main Lea Valley line, which was not electrified until May 1969.

Opened in 1849 by the Eastern Counties Railway on its line from London to Enfield via (what is now) Angel Road, this station closed to passengers in 1939 and completely in 1964. The site has since been completely redeveloped. View south on the former trackbed from approximately the northern end of the platform, which would have been to the right of the image. The station building was roughly where the nearest of the modern buildings is, or just behind it. Beyond that, probably in the middle of the modern roundabout, was a level crossing. As railway passenger traffic diminished following the opening of the nearby high level station (Now Edmonton Green - see Image), a second platform was added in around 1900 to the south of the level crossing, meaning the gates could stay open for road traffic. The shopping centre in the distance is on the site of this c.1900 platform. For further detail, see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/lower_edmonton_low_level/index.shtml