Exploring the Forgotten Stroud Green Railway Station — What Remains Today?

Описание: Visiting the site of what was Stroud Green Station

Stroud Green railway station was located in North-London’s neighbourhood of Stroud Green (London Borough of Haringey), on a bridge over Stapleton Hall Road. It sat between Finsbury Park station and Crouch End station on what was the Edgware–Highgate–London line. 
• The station had two platforms, cantilevered from the bridge structure, and a wooden station building at ground level under the bridge. There was also a station-master’s house just north of that building. 


• The station opened on 11 April 1881 (built by the Great Northern Railway, GNR). 
• There was a plan — under the so-called Northern Heights project — for this line to be subsumed into the London Underground (Northern line), but works were interrupted by World War II. The project was never completed for this section. 
• Passenger services were closed: the last regular train ran on 3 July 1954. 
• The track was eventually removed (lifted in 1972), and by the 1980s the former railway alignment was repurposed. 

• The old trackbed is now part of the Parkland Walk — a green corridor / walking & cycling path running between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace, along the former railway line. 
• The bridge over Stapleton Hall Road (where the station once stood) still exists. 
• The former station-master’s house (next to where the station building was) still survives — now repurposed as a community centre. 
• Apart from those, there are no remaining platforms or station buildings. The wooden station structures were demolished after a fire in 1967. 


• The station — and the wider line — are reminders of a different era of London’s rail history: a suburban railway line that never became part of the Underground, due to changing circumstances (war, finances, declining passenger numbers). 
• The reuse of the old railway line as a green walking/cycling path (Parkland Walk) is a nice example of adaptive reuse: instead of erasing the railway entirely, the old route provides community and recreational value.
• For locals and visitors: you can still stand on the old bridge over Stapleton Hall Road, walk part of the Parkland Walk, and pass by the station-master’s house — a little vestige of the old railway.