Palace Gates Line

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Route of Palace Gates Line highlighted on a 1900 map The Palace Gates Line was a short railway branch line in north London running from the main line at Seven Sisters station in Tottenham to Palace Gates （Wood Green） station in Wood Green.
The line was constructed by the Great Eastern Railway （GER） and opened on 1 January 1878 with a temporary terminus at Noel Park and Wood Green station before being opened to Palace Gates （Wood Green） station on 7 October 1878.
The line was opened in competition with the Great Northern Railway （GNR） line from King's Cross station to provide passenger services from
the GER's London terminus at Liverpool Street station to the recently opened Alexandra Palace and the developing suburb of Wood Green.
After the 1921 Railways Act amalgamated the GER, GNR and other railway companies into the London and North Eastern Railway （LNER） in 1923,
a connection to Bowes Park on the GNR Hertford Loop Line, which runs just north of the site of the terminus station, was made in 1929.
With the nearby GNR built stations at Alexandra Palace and Hornsey providing a more direct route to central London, the catchment areas for the line's stations were always fairly
small and the opening in 1932 of the first section of the Piccadilly line extension to Cockfosters with stations at Wood Green and Turnpike Lane diminished them further,
crucially eroding the line's passenger traffic.
In the early 1950s, the line was one of only two branches in the London area still worked by elderly F5, mainly, and F6 2-4-2Ts.
The remaining examples of these were called into Stratford Works for withdrawal, in mid-1958.
There then being no other suitable locomotives for the Palace Gates line, many of its trains were wor...

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