Turkey Street is a station on the

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of the

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, located in the

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area to the north of Enfield in north London. It is down the line from

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and is situated between and stations on the

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section of the

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. It is in

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History

The railway line from Bury Street Junction, north of the current Edmonton Green station, to was opened by the

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on 1 October 1891. It was known as the Churchbury Loop. The district served by the line was still predominantly rural, and the coming of the

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in 1904 saw the railway unable to compete. Passenger services ceased on 1 October 1909, but were reinstated for the benefit of munitions workers between 1 March 1915 and 1 July 1919. After that the line was only served by freight trains until the line was electrified as part of a wider scheme, and Turkey Street station reopened to passengers on 21 November 1960. The line is now known as the Southbury Loop. The station was opened as Forty Hill and did not gain its current name until 1960. The goods depot at the station closed in 1966. The current station building was built in the late 1980s. The previous and original station building had a prominent tall chimney stack for the station master's coal fire which brought the top of the chimney above platform level. The station itself is constructed on an incline and the ticket office area of the track is raised on an embankment so the chimney was very prominent. The interior of the original station consisted of a large ticket hall with the station master's office and serving hatch on the left hand side of the entrance. A tunnel opposite the entrance led to the stairs to the

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-bound platform. This tunnel was used in the rebuild. To the right were the stairs to the Liverpool Street platform. The stairwells were also reused in the rebuild, but the concrete steps were replaced with steel. When originally built the station was on the other side of the railway bridge and a wide footbridge over the

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led directly to the Cheshunt-bound platform. This entrance was disused from the early 1970s onwards and the former station building was converted to a

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and

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; the footbridge was used for storage for the shop and the entrance to the actual station area had a large iron gate but was bricked up when the station was rebuilt. The platforms were of standard length and had large open-fronted waiting areas with concrete walls and felt-covered wooden roofs with a long single bench along the rear wall. These were demolished when the station was rebuilt. In the 1980s the station was served by

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going to and from London Liverpool Street and Cheshunt. Around the same time as the rebuild the 305s were slowly replaced by

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. The Cheshunt service was extended to Hertford East in the late 1980s, utilising the existing main line from Cheshunt to

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and the existing branch to Hertford East. However, in the late 1990s the services again only ran as far as Cheshunt. The station was rebuilt once again in 2017. The trains are often used by

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and

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(previously The Bullsmoor School) pupils, and the station is also popular with

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due to the availability of local parking. On 31 May 2015 the station and all services that call here, transferred from

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Services

All services at Turkey Street are operated as part of the

of the

using

. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to

* 2 tph to Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

Connections

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routes

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217 Year 217 ( CCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Praesens and Extricatus (or, less frequently, year 970 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 217 for ...

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317 Year 317 ( CCCXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gallicanus and Bassus (or, less frequently, year 1070 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 317 for th ...

, school routes

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and night route N279 serve the station.

References

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