Tottenham Civic Society

Exploring the old railway line from Palace Gates to Seven Sisters

A map, showing the old railway line still in place and with some notes on its short history, is available here.

The group gathers on the green opposite Alexandra Park station.

Part of the row of "railway cottages" in Dorset Road, which once stood next to the now-vanished Palace Gates station.

In what is now Avenue Gardens, but was once the embankment for the track as it left Palace Gates.

A remnant of the bridge which carried the embanked track across Park Avenue.

Walking through the Sandlings housing estate, on the eastern side of Wood Green Shopping City. The line had a number of sidings here, which left a wide trackbed; hence the space for these blocks of local authority flats.

In Mannock Road allotments, where the trackbed has not been built over because the houses on either side are too close together to allow the insertion of any more. The bridge in the background was retained because (where the railway once passed under Westbury Avenue) a cycleway now uses the route.

A bridge parapet on the south side of West Green Road at the junction with Philip Lane, where the line passed under the road.

At Elmar Road allotments, where -- like Mannock Road allotments -- the houses on either side are too close together to permit any infill. The railway passed under the bridge in the background; although not obvious from this angle, it is a hump-backed bridge, on Avenue Road.

The end of the walk; Seven Sisters station is in the background to the right.