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The line from Edmonton via Lower Edmonton to the centre of Enfield opened on 1st March 1849. At Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green) a single platform occupied a central position at the edge of the village green. At Enfield Town where the line terminated in the centre of Enfield, a three-storey, late 17th-century mansion, latterly a school attended by John Keats, was available to become the station house and offices. A little steam railmotor called 'Enfield appeared on the branch soon after its opening. The first stage of a more direct line from Bethnal Green station to Stoke Newington station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 27th May 1872, and the route was continued on to Lower Edmonton on 22nd July 1872 and to Edmonton Junction on 1st August 1872. From 1st August 1872 trains ran on to Enfield Town via a new double line. Edmonton Green was opened as Edmonton (High level) on 22nd July 1872 by the Great Eastern Railway on its new, more direct line from London. Edmonton was renamed Lower Edmonton (High Level) on 1st July 1883, with the suffix being dropped when the low level station closed. The name of Edmonton Green was adopted in 1992. The line from Bury Street Junction, north of Edmonton Green, to Cheshunt was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1st October 1891 On 31st May 2015 the station and all services that call here became part of the London Overground network.

Formerly called Lower Edmonton

next to Edmonton Green railway station, looking across the roundabout to Edmonton Green shopping centre, currently being redeveloped, and the high-rise flats.

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'mistake' on the part of the Great Eastern Railway: it failed to attract 'commuters' and its passenger service was withdrawn after a few years (September 1909).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 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.

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

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