Trains at Alexandra Palace (ECML) - 04/04/2023
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- The 189th video of my train spotting adventures.
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This video takes us one stop up from the last video (Uni studies kept me from uploading sooner!) to Alexandra Palace station. A small junction station of 4 platforms, its first form was known as Wood Green in 1859, opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR), being renamed to include "(Alexandra Palace)" in 1864. The GNR became part of the LNER in 1923, and then the Eastern Region of BR in 1948; it had another renaming back to Wood Green briefly in 1971, before moving fully to Alexandra Palace in 1982.
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Plans in 1897 dictated that it would become the northern terminus of the Great Norther and Strand Railway (GN&SR), a tube rail supported by the GNR which would have run underground beneath the GNR's tracks to Finsbury Park and then into central London. The next GN&SR station to the south would have been Hornsey. The GN&SR route and stations north of Finsbury Park were cancelled in 1902.
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The station has old buildings on Buckingham Road, which house a refreshment kiosk and ticket machines, with a modern footbridge connection to the platforms and across the tracks to Bedford Road. On the platforms there are only rudimentary modern buildings for public use.
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On 9 December 2012 the old platforms 1 and 2 were closed for reconstruction. A temporary new platform 1 was provided to the east of the up slow line. All up (London-bound) trains which stop (served from either the Welwyn or Hertford directions) did so at this platform face. On 2 April 2013 the reconstructed platform 1 opened, on the west of the up slow line as before, now numbered as platform 2. This new platform is narrower than the former and the track has been moved to the west. The old platform 2 is permanently closed and has a fence along the edge. This work is part of a scheme to provide greater segregation of stopping, semi-fast and high-speed services in the section between Alexandra Palace and Finsbury Park, to allow a greater quantum of services.
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The up fast line now has no platform face at this station. The down fast is a through road, without a platform face. Platforms 3 and 4 are faces on an island platform and provide for northbound local services. Platform 3 is used by northbound trains on the ECML down slow line and trains on the Hertford Loop Line use platform 4. Trains to/from Hertford must use the outer platform lines.
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In May 2013 it was announced that the station would be a terminus on the latest proposed route for Crossrail 2; this project is of course still up for debate, planning and most importantly, budget checks!
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Filmed on the:
East Coast Mainline
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Services seen:
LNER) Services towards London King's Cross, Stevenage, Peterborough, Grantham, Newark North Gate, Lincoln, Retford, Doncaster, Leeds, York, and further North towards Newcastle & Scotland.
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GN/TL) Services towards Welwyn Garden City, Hertford North, Stevenage, Hitchin, Cambridge, Peterborough, London King's Cross, Moorgate, London St Pancras International, Farringdon, Blackfriars, and onwards to the South/Southwest of England.
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HT) Services towards London King's Cross, Stevenage, Grantham, Doncaster, Hull and Beverley.
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GC) Services towards London King's Cross, Doncaster, Wakefield Kirkgate, Bradford Interchange, York and Sunderland.
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Lumo) Services towards London King's Cross, Stevenage, Newcastle, Morpeth and Edinburgh Waverley.
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Trains seen:
LNER) Class 91 + DVT, Class 800/801 Azuma's
GN/TL) Class 700/717 Desiro City's
HT) Class 802 Paragon
GC) Class 180 Adelante
Lumo) Class 803
GBRf) Class 66
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