Disused Stations: Angel Road Station

Angel Road station looking north along the down platform in July 1987 before Conduit Lane was built. Conduit Lane would straddle the line to the north of the station giving road access to Meridian Way. The entrance to the station would eventually be relocated to Conduit Lane.
Photo by John Attfield

In July 1987 a Hertford East - Liverpool Street service is seen at Angel Road. What can be seen of the station's environs gives a hint of the somewhat bleak and inhospitable location in which this station stood, the large industries which once abounded having long since given way to a mix of smaller industrial units and desolation. Behind the platform on the right once ran two goods loops. The train is formed of a pair of 3-car Class 305/1 EMUs, that leading being No.305 411. The type began life in 1959 in 4-car form with First and Second Class accommodation, with the 3-car Second Class only version appearing in 1960. The type, mounted on Gresley bogies, was originally designated AM5 (AC Multiple-unit Type 5); type AM1 had been the Lancaster - Morecambe - Heysham units and AM11 the original Glasgow area units. Designation AM12 had been intended for what emerged as Class 312. The AM5s were inner suburban units and dominated the Chingford and Enfield lines. They were also a common sight on Hertford East services and would also turn up at Bishop's Stortford and, in their later years operating in the south-east, Cambridge. Replacement came in the form of Class 315 and Class 317, following which Class 305 was disbanded, for a time, to other areas of the country before final withdrawal in 2001. None have survived into preservation.
Photo by John Attfield

Angel Road station looking north from the up platform in May.1991. The station is now part of Network SouthEast and has had a makeover and doesn't look as bleak as it did 10 years earlier. Station lighting has been changed for a third time and Network SouthEast signs have been fitted. The grim bus shelters seen in the pictures above have also been replaced. Conduit Lane crosses the line in the distance; the station entrance would eventually be moved to Conduit Lane with access from the viaduct along a footpath running behind the down platform. The goods shed has now been demolished in the scrap yard that still occupies the site into the early 1980s.

Photo by Ben Brooksbank

Night view of Angel Road station looking south in December 2017 from the station footbridge. Lights and station furniture has changed again as the line is now under the control of Greater Anglia.
Photo from Stuart Keenan's Flickr Photostream

Angel Road station entrance on Conduit Lane in October 2018. Steps go down to a footpath that runs under Conduit Lane and alongside the min line for 100 yards to an entrance onto the platform.
Photo by Bill Kelsey

Steps down to the footpath to Angel Road station in May 2019. The disused track bed of the of the line to Lower Edmonton runs north-west. Lower Edmonton Low Level station was approximately where the tower blocks are seen.
Photo by Greg Kitson

A class 379 Electrostar EMU hauls the Stansted Express north through the unfinished Meridian Water station in May 2019. This view is from North Circular off slip road. On the left is a bay platform in September it is planned to introduce a 30 minute shuttle between Stratford and Meridian Water.
Photo by Keith Ward

Looking north along the down platform on 31 May 2019, the last day of public service. The time is after 17.00 so the rush hour has started but the station is almost deserted.
Photo by Nick Catford

Looking south along the down platform at Angel Road on 31 May 2019. Meridian Water station is seen beyond the bridges. The first viaduct is the North Circular Road and beyond an off slip from the road.
Photo by Nick Catford

A class 379 Electrostar EMU 379015 hauls the Stansted Express north through the unopened Meridian Water station in May 2019. This view is from the down platform at Angel Road.

Photo by Nick Catford

Looking forth from the down platform at Angel Road as a British Rail class 317 EMU 317882 runs through the up platform at Angel Road on 31 May 2019, the last day of public service.
Photo by Nick Catford

Looking north from the down platform at Angel Road on the last day of public service. There are numerous hand written posters around the station stating that the footbridge should be relocated to Pilning station on the Great Western Mainline. The poster says 'Footbridge at Pilning was demolished in 2016 to make way for overhead wires making it one direction only.
Photo by Nick Catford

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[Source: Nick Catford]

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