The Goblin line from Gospel Oak to Barking stopped opposite Jubilee Hall from 1872 until 1943 when they closed Hornsey Road Station and demolished the station building. I don't know how that helped win the war, but it must have made sense to someone somehow.
I've been looking to write a story about it for months but could find nothing anywhere about Hornsey Road station. Not a mention in Hansard, not a local paper reference. It barely makes the National Railway Museum and they are thorough.
So that has to be the story: the station vanished. Two years after Dickens died bricklayers and architects and plasterers and signal-makers and a dozen more forgotten trades made a station and seventy one years later it went.
We're back on the all flesh is as grass theme. I promise Sunday's post will be upbeat.
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| Crouch Hill Station. Hornsey Road's would have looked about the same. |
I've been looking to write a story about it for months but could find nothing anywhere about Hornsey Road station. Not a mention in Hansard, not a local paper reference. It barely makes the National Railway Museum and they are thorough.
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| National Railway Museum archive. I love them more than I can say for this picture. |
So that has to be the story: the station vanished. Two years after Dickens died bricklayers and architects and plasterers and signal-makers and a dozen more forgotten trades made a station and seventy one years later it went.
We're back on the all flesh is as grass theme. I promise Sunday's post will be upbeat.
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