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Hey DG, nice to see 'my' Piccadilly line exit at Turnpike Lane pictured! And, yes, the station is lovely but everything around it far less so!

EskimoPie | 14.05.13 - 6:35 a.m. | #

Mnaor House is one of my favourite stations although find it slightly depressing that the recorded classical music which is played in the station is meant to be a deterrant to stop the local youth hanging around. Says a lot about British culture.

ganching | Homepage | 14.05.13 - 7:32 a.m. | #

No, it doesn't. It says a lot of about yoof culture. When I was a "youth" which was less than 10 years ago, classical music would have encouraged my friends and I to hang around...

satb | 14.05.13 - 7:40 a.m. | #

If the New River was opened in 1613, surely that makes it 400 years old this year? ;) Do you have a date for the actual anniversary and are there any celebrations planned?

Julian Bond | Homepage | 14.05.13 - 8:26 a.m. | #

Park View Cafe was previously a (for many years closed) public lavatory - ref. previous day's post.

It's a convenient greasy spoon, but the cafe in Finsbury Park, by the lake, is well worth a visit.

Gordon | 14.05.13 - 9:28 a.m. | #

the "deterring" classical music is played at Turnpike Lane too. here, another way to keep the dangerous elements out of the station; several of the entrances/exits are closed at about 8.30pm, which means crossing at least one road at a very busy junction, but perhaps that's less dangerous than walking along the passageways below.

amber | 14.05.13 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Of course, Turnpike Lane will get something of a boost if Crossrail 2 serves it as planned.

What DG doesn't mention is that at various time there have also been abortive plans for Manor House to be given to the Victoria Line, and for Harringay Green Lanes to become a Piccadilly Line interchange instead.

Arkady | 14.05.13 - 1:55 p.m. | #

The managers at Manor House tube station are particularly knowledgeable about the history of the station and transport history generally. I enjoyed the Open Day there on 16 March. It would be great if there could be more such occasions.

Bob Lindsay-Smith | 14.05.13 - 2:03 p.m. | #

St Ann's Road crosses four railways? I can only see two, whichever map I use.

Gripper | 14.05.13 - 3:08 p.m. | #

Piccadilly
Victoria
Overground (Gospel Oak-Barking)
National Rail(East Anglia/Lea Valley Line)

Arkady | 14.05.13 - 3:38 p.m. | #

For all your New River needs http://www.bowesandbounds.org/events/water-water-everywhere-exhibition-400-years-of-the-new-river

mclm | 14.05.13 - 4:56 p.m. | #

Nice write up, DG.
re. 'whatever that floury thing is being bashed out by the lady in the shop window by the bus stop'
"Gozleme" - recommended.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6zleme

alistairj | 14.05.13 - 8:46 p.m. | #

Hear hear on the Manor House Open Day. The Station Supervisor gave us an excellent tour behind the scenes.

Stephen | 15.05.13 - 12:28 a.m. | #

I don't know this area but looking at the map, and with the benefit of hindsight, it does seem frustrating that Manor House station wasn't originally built further north so as to provide an interchange with what is now Harringay Green Lanes. That, though, would have ruined the GOBLIN's record of missing every possible interchange, at least until the Victoria Line was built. Swapping Manor House to the Victoria Line was a neat idea so it's a shame it didn't happen. Now, of course, we are left with the awkward situation where Manor House is too far from Green Lanes to provide a decent interchange but too close to be able to justify building a new station.

Whiff | 15.05.13 - 1:25 a.m. | #

St. Ann's Road did once have the benefit of being served by one of the lines it crossed - the GOBLIN had a station on the junction of Seven Sisters Road, albeit closed for good in the 1940s. The station building survived as a newsagents until demolition last year, and it was still possible to see some of the infrastructure linking the building up to the tracks until very recently. Not a priority for reopening, this, but living halfway between South Tottenham and Harringay GL I would be one of the happiest to see it!

Seven SIsters also gets the piped classical treatment, though even that and the presence of a well staffed BTP office fails to keep the local youth from using the station as a focal point.

Nico | 15.05.13 - 8:02 a.m. | #

Old St underground has an exit in Hackney as well, just.

WJ | 15.05.13 - 9:24 p.m. | #











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