Enfield Chase railway station
Enfield Chase 
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 Enfield Chase
Location of Enfield Chase in Greater London
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| Location | Enfield Town |
| Local authority | London Borough of Enfield |
| Managed by | Great Northern |
| Station code | ENC |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 1.250 million |
| – interchange |
 11,445 |
| 2012–13 |
1.290 million |
| – interchange |
10,810 |
| 2013–14 |
1.327 million |
| – interchange |
11,769 |
| 2014–15 |
1.390 million |
| – interchange |
13,027 |
| 2015–16 |
1.472 million |
| – interchange |
11,341 |
| Key dates | |
| 1910 | Opened |
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| WGS84 | 51°39′10″N 0°05′27″W / 51.6529°N 0.0908°WCoordinates: 51°39′10″N 0°05′27″W / 51.6529°N 0.0908°W |
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Enfield Chase railway station is located in Windmill Hill, Enfield, in the London Borough of Enfield in north London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Great Northern. It is directly west of Enfield Town centre. The current station opened in 1910 with the extension of the Hertford Loop Line to Cuffley, replacing a previous station a short distance to the west which opened in 1871. Originally called simply "Enfield" station, the current name was adopted in 1924 to avoid confusion with Enfield Town.
The service runs to Moorgate via Highbury & Islington. The service uses class 313 EMUs, as these are the only units cleared to Moorgate.
The typical off-peak weekday service is 3 trains per hour to Moorgate and to Hertford North; one of the latter per hour continues to Letchworth Garden City via Stevenage.
In peak hours, the line runs a much more frequent services, with certain services not calling at all intermittent stations. However, all of these additional services call at Enfield Chase.
At weekends, the service is a half-hourly service to Hertford North and an hourly service to Stevenage and two trains per hour to Moorgate.
The original Enfield Station in Windmill Hill opened on 1 April 1871 as the terminus for the Great Northern Railway branch line from Alexandra Palace. By 1887, 37 trains a day left Enfield, mainly for King's Cross, but also to Broad Street and until 1907, to Woolwich and Victoria. The station building was a two-storey twin-gabled house, similar in style to the single-storey building at Palmers Green. It was sited lengthways across the end of the track. The single island platform was covered by a wide canopy for much of its length. Enfield Station had been intended to bring prosperous middle class commuters to the area. A journalist visiting the station in 1885, saw a sign advertising cheap workmen's tickets for trains scheduled to arrive in London before 8 am, only to find that the timetable showed that there were no trains that met that criterion. The old Enfield Station closed to passengers in 1910 (when replaced by the present station ) but remained in use as a goods depot until 1974. The surviving buildings were demolished and replaced during the 2000s with housing along a new street called Gladbeck Way.
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