Level crossing in Cuckoo Hall Lane

[towerman]

When I was a young boy I some times spent weekends at my cousins.They lived close to the Edmonton-Ponders End border,when my uncle picked me up he used to turn off the North Circular into Cuckoo Hall Lane(this was in the days before the flyover was built)about a couple of hundred yards up the road was a level crossing with a single line crossing the road.Was this a link line between the Enfield Town Line and the Lea Valley Line?

[jukes]

That sounds like the old link line between Angel Road and Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green). The platform (known as Lower Edmonton (Low Level) was on what's now the traffic island outside Edmonton Green station, which was known as Lower Edmonton (High Level). The single line then rose to join the (main) line just north of Lower Edmonton (High Level).

[towerman]

Thanks.

[stapler]

Feb 2, 2024 19:48:14 GMT jukes said:

That sounds like the old link line between Angel Road and Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green). The platform (known as Lower Edmonton (Low Level) was on what's now the traffic island outside Edmonton Green station, which was known as Lower Edmonton (High Level). The single line then rose to join the (main) line just north of Lower Edmonton (High Level).

This was certainly no less that the original Eastern Counties Railway branch opened 1849 from Edmonton, later Angel Rd, to the Middx market town of Enfield. After the opening in 1872 of the GER Metropolitan Station and Railways Act cut-off via Seven Sisters and Clapton, it was somewhat eclipsed, and saw use till 1939 for workmen's trains, and later as a diversionary route. As a boy, I remember walking along it, by then not a rural idyll. but a  litter-strewn defile between factories and industrial miscellany. Think it was taken up c1972