Enfield_Lock_railway_station

Enfield Lock railway station

Enfield Lock railway station

National Rail station in London, England

Enfield Lock railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line, it is in Enfield Lock in the London Borough of Enfield, London. It is 11 miles 65 chains (19.0 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Brimsdown and Waltham Cross. Its three-letter station code is ENL and it is in Travelcard zone 6.

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The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia.

Enfield Lock was the main station for the Royal Small Arms Factory until its closure in the late 1980s, and now serves the large housing development on the site known as Enfield Island Village, as well as the nearby Innova Science and Business park.

History

The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840. The station itself was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1855 as Ordnance Factory, later renamed in 1886[3] to Enfield Lock.[4]

The lines through Enfield Lock were electrified on 5 May 1969.[5] Prior to the completion of electrification in 1969, passenger services between Cheshunt and London Liverpool Street through Enfield Lock station were normally operated by Class 125 diesel multiple units (which had been purpose-built for the line in 1958).

Services

View from the footbridge at Enfield Lock Station

All services at Enfield Lock are operated by Greater Anglia using Class 720 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[6]

On Sundays, the services to Liverpool Street and Bishop's Stortford do not run and station is instead served by a half-hourly service between Stratford and Hertford East.

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Connections

London Buses routes 121 and 491 serve the station.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
  2. [2]
    "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  3. [3]
    Chronology of London Railways by H.V.Borley
  4. [4]
    Brown, Joe, London Railway Atlas, page 5, Ian Allan Publishing, 2006
  5. [5]
    White, H.P., A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 3 Greater London, David & Charles, 1987
  6. [6]
    Table 22 National Rail timetable, May 2022
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