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If you've walked from Turkey Street station all the way up to Forty Hall and don't fancy the walk all the way back again, then the 191 bus passes quite close by. That takes you close to Enfield Chase station, as well as Enfield Town (also becoming part of the Overground) and Southbury stations.

Also of note is Capel Manor for those horticulturally inclined. It's also close by.

Adam Bowie | Homepage | 08.03.15 - 1:13 a.m. | #

Excuse me for sidestepping the post itself, but Happy Birthday, DG.
I stumbled over your website 3 or 4 years ago, & have been a faithful visitor ever since. As an expat Londoner, I so appreciate your unique take on my old hometown. And even more than that, I've come to relish your writing style ~ I'd put you in the same Londoner-writing-on-London category as Charles Lamb, you're that distinctive.

Geraldine Moyle | 08.03.15 - 6:56 a.m. | #

Thanks DG, can never read about Forty Hall without remembering its status as a splendid bus terminus for routes 135 and 231.
Happy birthday for tomorrow. Hope all goes well for the Fort William trip if you've chosen that. I did it last week and it was wonderful.

Roger | 08.03.15 - 7:54 a.m. | #

Happy Birthday, DG. Forty Hill is where I grew up, where my mother still lives and where my partner works (in Capel Manor). Very much my patch, nice to see it featured again.

Steve | 08.03.15 - 8:57 a.m. | #

It's faintly depressing that the rest of London might only know about main line routes because they are on the tube map. I met a visitor to London once who assumed that the tube map represented London as a whole and was surprised to discover that it didn't. That was not surprising. But given that main lines do proliferate to all corners of the city (even if they are at their most intense in the south) I would be surprised if at least those in a radius of a few miles were not aware of their local railway stations. Conversely I suspect few outside of NE London will know of Theydon Bois unless they have had cause to visit the area or have participated in a "tube map" challenge.

GTR Driver | 08.03.15 - 10:37 a.m. | #

I have some Tuckey ancestors in my family tree that I'm struggling to locate before they arrived in London! Might be an area to look into! Thanks!!

Cornish Cockney | 08.03.15 - 11:24 a.m. | #

Is this your next stop, DG ?

http://www.5050store.com/

Life begins, etc.....

Have a great day !

Tony (Somerset) | 08.03.15 - 2:17 p.m. | #

50 not out. Happy birthday tomorrow, DG.

There is of course a London rail services map - https://www.tfl.gov.uk/maps/track/national-rail - which includes Turkey Street already, but I expect that is used much less than the Tube map.

Andrew | 08.03.15 - 6:30 p.m. | #

Surprised to hear it is so little used, as there is a large school (St Ignatius) just across the A10 from the station. That was my school back in the 1960s, when it was located on the same line but closer to London, between Stamford Hill and Seven Sisters stations.

Happy birthday tomorrow, DG!

Jim Webber | 08.03.15 - 7:10 p.m. | #

@GTR driver
I would not be at all surprised to learn that more people could find Theydon Bois than Sutton, or Kingston, or Bromley.

When I lived at Clapham Junction in the eighties, a surprising number of friends thought it must be difficult to get to because the nearest Tube was so far away.
Even now, if the Tube map is to believed, the best way from Victoria to Clapham Junction is via West Brompton, and from Waterloo to Clapham Junction via Clapham North/High Street.

They have even removed Thameslink and the Northern City line.

timbo | 08.03.15 - 7:12 p.m. | #

Growing up around that area, I've always known it as "the" Hertford Road. I had to keep mentally inserting the word "the" in front every time you mentioned it :-)

(The A10, that you also mentioned, is "the" Great Cambridge Road.)

On the subject of trains, you would have to be desperate or foolish to take the stopping train all the way from Liverpool Street to Cheshunt via the Southbury loop. It's very much the slowest way of getting there. (However, All Stations To Cheshunt is a helpful mnemonic for those studying trigonometry.)

Ian | 08.03.15 - 9:32 p.m. | #

Best wishes for a great outing on your very special day tomorrow. I hope you have a wonderful day that leaves you with happy memories to savor over the years to come.
Have no guilt about not posting tomorrow. Spend every minute enjoying your landmark birthday.

Doris, USA | 08.03.15 - 9:50 p.m. | #

The 327 bus goes past there. Silly thing.

the orange one | 09.03.15 - 8:25 a.m. | #

Happy Birthday DG! I'm an old(er) person who went for a stroll at Myddleton House this very morning....... so welcome to the club! x

Auntie Doris | 09.03.15 - 10:20 a.m. | #

There is a very good reason that the official figures for Turkey Street Station usage are so low.

Basically, it's the fact that very few people who travel from there actually pay their fare, be it ticket or Oyster, they usually just jump on the train when it arrives.

I use Turkey Street every day to get to work (and pay for a season ticket) and have had my ticket checked 3 times in the past 5 years as it seems that the railway company just can't be bothered, hopefully this will change under London Overground and they might even tidy the station up a bit as it has been down at heel for decades.

Ghostwriter1976 | Homepage | 09.03.15 - 4:45 p.m. | #

Ghostwriter, sounds rather like Birkbeck! I see rather more people getting on and off there than is supposedly claimed. Many of them will be using season tickets or Oyster of course. It's not quite in the middle of nowhere but is away from any particular settlements so I suspect has gained a reputation for an easy fare dodge from Beckenham or somewhere beyond Palace where the barriers are open.

GTR Driver | 09.03.15 - 7:30 p.m. | #

Are you sure it was rebuilt in the 1980's? It looks the same now as when my Grandmother lived in Brookside Gardens - I used to get penny sweets in the shop that is supposedly the old ticket hall... I am 36. (1979)

Native Enfieldian | 11.04.15 - 12:43 a.m. | #

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