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Inspired - thanks for a nice prologue to the day.
I did once visit Angel Road, without realising quite how infrequent the train service was. I think it was more than 24 hours until the next train - though given the insalubrious atmosphere and the surroundings it was more of a mystery why it even existed in the first place.
you remind me of when I used to drive across the ponders end level crossing on the NC road - must have been 68/9. I don't remember ever being held up there
Lovely poem. Looking forward to your visit to Adlestrop.
Well done DG! That is a lovely pastiche of Edward Thomas's poem. It is one of my favourites and you have handled it beautifully.
If that doesn't encourage someone to visit Angel Road station today,I don't know what would. Thanks for the smile this morning. 😉
Brilliant. Now do Ruislip Gardens.
A very nice (and undeserved!) tribute for a pretty horrible station! I went there a couple of months ago to try it out myself before it closed, it won't be missed.
A lovely tribute! I believe I was snapping photos of the station at the same time as you on this day. I thought it could have been you but didn't have the courage to ask. Next time our paths cross I will surely say hello.

dg writes: There was nobody else at the station during my visit. So it wasn't me.
I find a unique satisfaction in being the only alighting/boarding passenger at a railway station.
Class. Thanks DG x
Lovely.

Edward Thomas, killed at Arras in 1917, the month after his 39th birthday, shortly before his book of Poems was published. A slim volume, worth reading. Lest we forget.
A clever post making good use of the A-station parallel.

Although the station does look pretty unwelcoming, it still looks quite smartly-painted and litter-free. All credit to whoever does the rather thankless job of looking after it.

An impressive album of photos, which could (from tomorrow) make good material for the disused stations website.

It would be fun if one train today could stop (unofficially) at both stations. They are different stations, as you make clear, even though one replaces the other. For a short while they must be the closest pair of different stations on the same line.

Rochester did the same trick, but as the new station has the same name as the old, it "counts" as a station move, rather than a replacement.
I went a few weeks ago to take some photos. I was quite surprised to see not one but two other people also get off! They didn’t hang around to take photos, so unlikely to have been train bloggers. I do wonder where they were going.
Open to correction on this (as I was too young to remember!) but I believe it was the early 1990s upgrades of the A406 and the building of “New Road” from Tottenham up the Lea Valley which forced the entrance move round to Conduit Lane.
Malcolm, I believe that stations on the Coryton line in Cardiff might be close contenders. There are 5 stations spread on about 1.5 miles of track.
My recollection about when the entrance moved to its current hidden, inhospitable site, is the same as Nico's - I'm sure I travelled past the old "front entrance" on buses in the late 80s/early 90s.
Sorry, I only did five minutes research into when the entrance to Angel Road station switched. I have since done fifteen.

The best evidence I've found is a planning application for "Installation of replacement footbridge" (ref PA/93/0056), which was granted by Enfield council in January 1994.

So I've amended the post to say 1994 (until someone provides evidence suggesting otherwise).

Thanks for the nudge :)
Ooh, excellent reworking. Love that poem, even allude to it out my twitter banner.
The entrance to the station has actually moved twice (well...technically three times).

The first time was in the early 1970s when it was relocated from the North to the South side of Angel Road Viaduct as part of an earlier road upgrade scheme.

This also included construction of what was labelled as a Subway slung under the viaduct so you could get from one side of the widened A406 to the other. I suppose it technically counted as such as it was below the road, but it was well above rail level!

The second was the late 80s/early 90s relocation to the (newly built) Conduit Lane when the original viaduct was demolished and replaced with the multiple structures now present.

As an aside, at one point during the later upgrade, access was achieved from the South side of the original viaduct once more, by means of temporary scaffold towers.
Last train.
(I was not there)
Meridian Water now open.

Angel Road already sealed off, with platforms stripped and footbridge removed.
Ha, that's a coincidence - I was in Adelstrop on Saturday, passing the remains of the station, and today at Meridian Water....










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