Harringay railway station

Harringay
Harringay Location of Harringay in Greater London
Location	Harringay
Local authority	London Borough of Haringey
Managed by	Great Northern
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	HGY
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
OSI	Harringay Green Lanes
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	1.062 million
2012–13	1.123 million
2013–14	1.185 million
2014–15	1.260 million
2015–16	1.181 million
Key dates
1 May 1885	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°34′37″N 0°06′19″W / 51.577°N 0.1052°W / 51.577; -0.1052Coordinates: 51°34′37″N 0°06′19″W / 51.577°N 0.1052°W / 51.577; -0.1052

Harringay railway station (also known as Harringay West for part of its history) is a railway station located off Wightman Road in Harringay, north London. It is on the East Coast Main Line between Finsbury Park and Hornsey and opened on 1 May 1885. Harringay is managed and served by Great Northern.

A formal agreement to build a station at Harringay was made between the British Land Company and the Great Northern Railway in April 1884. The Land Company needed the station to serve housing it was building to the east of the railway line on the site of Harringay House, so it contributed £3,500 to the cost and agreed to bear the working costs of the station for an initial period. Contracts to build the station (including the footbridge) and a road bridge over the Tottenham & Hampstead line went to S.W. Pattinson of Ruskington for £8,000 and £3,999 respectively in August the same year.

The station was constructed with an up platform as an island serving the up main and up slow, and a single-sided down platform serving the down slow only. A 300-foot-long footbridge (91 m) was constructed to give access to the station. It stretched from a station approach road off Wightman Road to the west side of the cutting, where Quernmore Road would eventually be built some fifteen years later. A booking office was built on the footbridge above the platforms.

The station opened to passenger traffic on 1 May 1885 with a staff complement of a station master, two assistant clerks, two ticket collectors, and three porters. Although it had been agreed that the station would be named Harringay Park, the GNR public timetable from May 1885 shows that station was in fact named Harringay from the outset. A goods yard was built to the east of the line, but the exact date it opened for public traffic is not recorded.

In 1900 a second down slow passenger line was added and the down platform was made an island and widened along its entire length.