Turkey Street railway station

Turkey Street
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	TUR
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	6
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	0.444 million
2012–13	0.472 million
2013–14	0.548 million
2014–15	0.594 million
2015–16	0.604 million
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
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°40′21″N 0°02′50″W / 51.6726°N 0.0472°W / 51.6726; -0.0472Coordinates: 51°40′21″N 0°02′50″W / 51.6726°N 0.0472°W / 51.6726; -0.0472

Turkey Street railway station is located in the Bullsmoor area of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 6 and is served by Lea Valley Lines services. The station is operated by London Overground as are all trains serving it.

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. The line is now known as the Southbury Loop.

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

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 (From the entrance). A tunnel in front of you 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 ones.