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Northumberland Park railway station is a National Rail passenger station in Northumberland Park, London. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.The station is located in London Travelcard Zone 3. The station is immediately south of one of north London's few remaining level crossings. Northumberland Park Depot of London Underground's Victoria line is adjacent to the station. The station is used by Tottenham Hotspur football fans when Tottenham are playing home games at White Hart Lane. ==History== Northumberland Park was opened on 15 September 1840 as a Halt on the Northern & Eastern Railway. The station was originally named Marsh Lane after the country lane to Tottenham Marshes on which it is situated. The Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1844 who took over operation of the line. The line was initially laid to a gauge of but already this had been identified as non standard and between 5 September and 7 October 1844 the whole network was re-laid to . In June 1852 the station was renamed Park station. The Eastern Counties Railway was taken over by the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. In 1882 the line through the station became part of a major rail freight artery with the opening of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway. This provided a link for the Great Eastern Railway from the coal fields in the north to London. This led to a second pair of running lines known as the Slow Lines (the ones that exist today - 2013 - are the old Fast Lines) being added in 1913. In 1919 as well as the two sets of main lines there were some private sidings serving local industries including Tottenham Gas works. Adjacent to the station was a marshalling yard for goods traffic. The yard was under the control of the station master and had three reception sidings and fourteen sorting sidings. Its purpose was the servicing of the various lineside industries on the southern part of the Lea Valley Line as well as the Enfield Town and Chingford branch goods depots. Additionally it used to handle the perishable goods traffic as the policy was to keep this apart from more general traffic.〔Great Eastern Railway Society Journal volume 79 page 32 Ted Summerfield (Letter) July 1994〕 In 1923 operation passed to the London & North Eastern Railway and the station was renamed to its current title, Northumberland Park on 1 July 1923, this is also the name of the surrounding district, in Tottenham, North London. On 7 January 1931 there was an accident at Northumberland Park when a coal train hit a shunting locomotive which was then propelled into a Brake Van of another freight train. This resulted in the brake van catching fire and the train guard was burnt to death. The signal box (built 1914) was located near the level crossing and was raised up on stilts.〔Great Eastern Railway Society Journal volume 135 page 13 Bernard Crawford (Cambridge Line memories) July 2008〕 In 1940 during World War 2 an unexploded anti-aircraft shell fell on the adjacent marshalling yard. Following nationalisation in 1948 the station became part of British Railways Eastern Region. Around 1961 the marshalling yard was closed〔Great Eastern Railway Society Journal volume 76 page 24 Dave Taylor October 1993〕 and the site used for the Northumberland Park Depot of London Underground's Victoria line. In 2013 this is the only above ground location where Victoria line stock can be seen and the depot is joined to the main Victoria line at a junction north of Seven Sisters tube station. The Lea Valley line between Copper Mill Junction and Cheshunt was electrified at 25 kV in 1969.〔Great Eastern Railway Society Journal volume 122 pages 25 Rodger Green April 2005〕 The station was also rebuilt at this time with the work being completed in 1970.〔 When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways. The signal box (by this date only controlling the level crossing gates) was closed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northumberland Park railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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