Turkey Street railway station

Turkey Street is a London Overground station on the Southbury Loop section of the Lea Valley lines, located in the Bullsmoor area to the north of Enfield in north London. It is 12 miles 16 chains (19.6 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Southbury and Theobalds Grove.^[2]

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Turkey Street
Turkey Street Station
Turkey Street Location of Turkey Street in Greater London
Location	Enfield
Local authority	London Borough of Enfield
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code(s)	TUR
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	6
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19	0.980 million[1]
2019–20	0.906 million[1]
2020–21	0.340 million[1]
2021–22	0.686 million[1]
2022–23	0.778 million[1]
Key dates
1 October 1891	Opened as Forty Hill
1 October 1909	Closed
1 March 1915	Re-opened
1 July 1919	Closed
21 November 1960	Re-opened as Turkey Street
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
Coordinates	51.6726°N 0.0472°W / 51.6726; -0.0472
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History

The railway line from Bury Street Junction, north of the current Edmonton Green station, to Cheshunt was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1 October 1891. It was known as the Churchbury Loop.

The district served by the line was still predominantly rural, and the coming of the tram to Waltham Cross in 1904 saw the railway unable to compete. Passenger services ceased on 1 October 1909, but were reinstated for the benefit of munitions workers between 1 March 1915 and 1 July 1919.

After that the line was only served by freight trains until the line was electrified as part of a wider scheme, and Turkey Street station reopened to passengers on 21 November 1960.^[3] The line is now known as the Southbury Loop.

The station was opened as Forty Hill and did not gain its current name until 1960. The goods depot at the station closed in 1966.^[4]

The current station building was built in the late 1980s. The previous and original station building had a prominent tall chimney stack for the station master's coal fire which brought the top of the chimney above platform level. The station itself is constructed on an incline and the ticket office area of the track is raised on an embankment so the chimney was very prominent. The interior of the original station consisted of a large ticket hall with the station master's office and serving hatch on the left hand side of the entrance. A tunnel opposite the entrance led to the stairs to the Cheshunt-bound platform. This tunnel was used in the rebuild. To the right were the stairs to the Liverpool Street platform. The stairwells were also reused in the rebuild, but the concrete steps were replaced with steel.

When originally built the station was on the other side of the railway bridge and a wide footbridge over the Turkey Brook led directly to the Cheshunt-bound platform. This entrance was disused from the early 1970s onwards and the former station building was converted to a newsagent and general store; the footbridge was used for storage for the shop and the entrance to the actual station area had a large iron gate but was bricked up when the station was rebuilt.

Platforms at Turkey Street

The platforms were of standard length and had large open-fronted waiting areas with concrete walls and felt-covered wooden roofs with a long single bench along the rear wall. These were demolished when the station was rebuilt.

In the 1980s the station was served by British Rail Class 305 EMUs going to and from London Liverpool Street and Cheshunt. Around the same time as the rebuild the 305s were slowly replaced by British Rail Class 315. The Cheshunt service was extended to Hertford East in the late 1980s, utilising the existing main line from Cheshunt to Broxbourne and the existing branch to Hertford East. However, in the late 1990s the services again only ran as far as Cheshunt.

The station was rebuilt once again in 2017.

The trains are often used by St Ignatius' College and Lea Valley Academy (previously The Bullsmoor School) pupils, and the station is also popular with commuters due to the availability of local parking.

On 31 May 2015 the station and all services that call here, transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia to London Overground Rail Operations.^[5][6]

Services

All services at Turkey Street are operated by London Overground using Class 710 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[7]

• 2 tph to London Liverpool Street
• 2 tph to Cheshunt

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
Southbury towards Liverpool Street		Enfield & Cheshunt line Cheshunt branch		Theobalds Grove towards Cheshunt

Connections

London Buses routes 121, 217, 279, 317, school routes 617, 627 and night route N279 serve the station.^[8][9]

References

1. "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 10B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
3. White, H.P., A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 3 Greater London, David & Charles, 1987
4. Brown, Joe, London Railway Atlas, page 5, Ian Allan Publishing, 2006
5. TFL appoints London Overground operator to run additional services Transport for London 28 May 2014
6. TfL count on LOROL for support Rail Professional 28 May 2014
7. Table 21 National Rail timetable, June 2024
8. "Turkey Street Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
9. "Turkey Street Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

External links

• Train times and station information for Turkey Street railway station from National Rail