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{{Short description|Railway station in London}}
{{distinguish|Harringay Green Lanes railway station}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox London station
|name          = Harringay
|image_name    = Harringay railway station MMB 28 313055 313XXX.jpg
|manager       = [[Govia Thameslink Railway|Great Northern]]
|owner         = [[Network Rail]]
|fare_zone     = 3
|locale        = [[Harringay]]
|borough       = [[London Borough of Haringey]]
|events1       = Opened | years1= 1 May 1885<ref name=Young>John Young's "Great Northern Suburban"</ref>
|platforms     = 2
|dft_category  = D
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|symbol        = rail
|railcode = HGY
| coordinates   = {{coord|51.577|-0.1052|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| interchange   = [[Harringay Green Lanes railway station|Harringay Green Lanes]] {{rail-interchange|london|overground}}
| interchange_note = <ref>{{Citation London station interchange June 2020}}</ref>
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[[File:Harringay West railway station geograph-2370300-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|right|Down local train in 1958]]
'''Harringay railway station''' is in [[Harringay]] in the [[London Borough of Haringey]], north London. It is on the [[Great Northern route]] that forms part of the [[East Coast Main Line]], {{convert|3|mi|32|chain|km|lk=in}} down the line from {{rws|London King's Cross}}, and is situated between {{rws|Finsbury Park}} to the south and {{rws|Hornsey}} to the north.<ref>{{cite book |last=Padgett |first=David |editor-last=Brailsford |editor-first=Martyn |title=Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern |edition=4th |date=October 2016 |orig-year=1988 |publisher=Trackmaps |location=Frome |isbn=978-0-9549866-8-1 |at=map 14B }}</ref> It opened on 1 May 1885.<ref name=Young/>

Harringay is managed and served by [[Govia Thameslink Railway|Great Northern]].<ref name=fcc>[http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/Main.php?sEvent=StationInfo&crs_code=HGY Harringay Train Station, First Capital Connect website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629201918/http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/Main.php?sEvent=StationInfo&crs_code=HGY |date=29 June 2009 }}.</ref> It is a short distance from [[Harringay Green Lanes railway station]] on the [[London Overground]] network.

==History==
A formal agreement to build a station at Harringay was made between the [[British Land Company]] and the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] in April 1884.<ref name=Kay>Peter Kay, ''The Great Northern Main Line in London – Harringay Station'', The London Railway Record, Issue 56, July 2008, North London Railway Historical Society, Connor & Butler</ref> The Land Company needed the station to serve housing it was building to the east of the railway line on the site of [[History of Harringay (1880–present)#1880 to 1940|Harringay House]], so it contributed £3,500 to the cost and agreed to bear the working costs of the station for an initial period. Contracts to build the station (including the footbridge) and a road bridge over the [[Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway|Tottenham & Hampstead]] line went to S.W. Pattinson of Ruskington for £8,000 and £3,999 respectively in August the same year.<ref name=fcc/>
[[File:Harringay West railway station geograph-2134970.jpg|thumb|right|Down 'Blue Spot' fish empties passing in 1958]]

The station was constructed with an up platform as an island serving the ''up main'' and ''up slow'', and a single-sided down platform serving the ''down slow'' only. A {{convert|300|ft|m|adj=mid|-long footbridge}} was constructed to give access to the station. It stretched from a station approach road off Wightman Road to the west side of the cutting, where Quernmore Road would eventually be built some fifteen years later. A booking office was built on the footbridge above the platforms.<ref name=Kay/>

The station opened to passenger traffic on 1 May 1885<ref name=Butt>{{harvnb|Butt|1995|p=114}}</ref> with a staff complement of a station master, two assistant clerks, two ticket collectors, and three porters. Although it had been agreed that the station would be named ''Harringay Park'', the GNR public timetable from May 1885 shows that station was in fact named ''Harringay'' from the outset.<ref name=Butt/> A goods yard was built to the east of the line, but the exact date it opened for public traffic is not recorded.<ref name=Kay/>

In 1900 a second ''down slow'' passenger line was added and the down platform was made an island and widened along its entire length.<ref name=Kay/>

The 1885 booking office building suffered fire damage in the 1960s and had been almost entirely removed by 1969.<ref name=fcc/> It was replaced by a small timber shack, which serves as a ticket office until August 2021. Shortly thereafter it was demolished. Tickets sales are now by machine only. 

The station was renamed ''Harringay West'' on 18 June 1951, but reverted to ''Harringay'' on 27 May 1971.<ref name=Kay/><ref name=Butt />

In 1975 the platform layout was altered with the west sides of both acting as single sided platforms.<ref name=fcc/> A replacement waiting room/canopy block was provided on each.<ref name=fcc/>

Since 1976 under [[British Rail]] only the central part of the footbridge, and the girders built to carry the old booking office building, remain from the 1885 station structure.

Under plans approved in 1897, the station was to be served by the [[Great Northern and Strand Railway]] (GN&SR), a tube railway supported by the GNR which would have run underground beneath the GNR's tracks from [[Alexandra Palace railway station|Alexandra Palace]] to Finsbury Park and then into central London. The GN&SR stations on each side would have been the same as the main line stations. The GN&SR route and stations north of Finsbury Park were cancelled in 1902 when the GN&SR was taken over by [[Charles Yerkes|Charles Yerkes']] consortium, which planned to merge it with the Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway to form the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway from Finsbury Park to [[Hammersmith]] (now part of the [[London Underground|London Underground's]] [[Piccadilly line]]).<ref name=Lost>{{cite book |last=Badsey-Ellis|first=Antony |title=London's Lost Tube Schemes |year=2005 |publisher=Capital Transport |pages=77 and 138 |isbn=1-85414-293-3 }}</ref>

==Services==
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All services at Harringay are operated by [[Govia Thameslink Railway|Great Northern]] using {{brc|717}} [[Electric multiple unit|EMUs]].

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:<ref>{{NRtimes|May 2025|17}}</ref>
* 4 tph to {{stn|Moorgate}}
* 2 tph to {{stnlnk|Stevenage}} via {{stnlnk|Hertford North}}
* 2 tph to {{stnlnk|Welwyn Garden City}}

During the weekday peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly service between Moorgate and Hertford North, and the service between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City is increased to 4 tph. The station is also served by a small number of peak-hour services between Moorgate and {{stnlnk|Gordon Hill}}.

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{{Rail line|previous=[[Finsbury Park station|Finsbury Park]]<br/><small>''towards [[Aldwych tube station|Strand]]''</small>|route=[[Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway|Great Northern & Strand]]|next=[[Hornsey railway station|Hornsey]]<br><small>''towards [[Alexandra Palace railway station|Wood Green]]''</small>|col={{rcr|London Underground|Piccadilly}} }}
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==Connections==
[[London Buses]] route [[London Buses route W5|W5]] serves the station.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/harringay-a4-150619.pdf|title=Buses from Harringay|date=15 June 2019|website=TfL|access-date=22 August 2021|archive-date=22 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822160145/https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/harringay-a4-150619.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Infrastructure==

Trains calling at Harringay use the low-speed rail tracks in front of the platforms; there are five more tracks passing through and around the vicinity of the station. Two of these are used for high-speed [[London North Eastern Railway]], [[Hull Trains]], [[Grand Central (train operating company)|Grand Central]] and other Great Northern services, and the other three are used for freight services. Occasionally, when these lines are busy, the low-speed tracks are used for the faster services.<ref>Joe Brown (2006). London Railway Atlas. Ian Allan Publishing.</ref>

A rail link between the East Coast Main Line and the [[Gospel Oak to Barking line]] branches off from the former at the southern end of the station.

During the week, trains use dual-voltage [[British Rail Class 717|Class 717 EMUs]] following the withdrawal of {{brc|313}} EMUs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/10/gtr-completes-investment-in-new-rolling-stock.html|title=Class 313 Withdrawal|date=1 October 2019|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref>

==In popular culture==

A supersized ticket stub, featuring the words 'Harringay West' (and Kings Cross), features prominently in the background of a promotional film of The Beatles' Ticket To Ride, filmed on 23 November 1965 at Twickenham Film Studios.

The station is used as a location in the 2009 film ''[[London River]]''.

== References ==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |date=October 1995 |title=The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present |edition=1st |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 }}
*Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Harringay railway station}}
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120901175849/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/north-east-london-bus-map.pdf Local Bus Map]
* [http://www.nationalrail.co.uk National Rail]
* [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=n8+0bl&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.287903,27.026367&ie=UTF8&ll=51.577423,-0.106478&spn=0.001107,0.002395&z=19&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=51.577374,-0.106543&panoid=UxWMAZ-fqmQbRmcGcKO_cQ&cbp=12,80.74,,1,6.36 Google maps view of western entrance to station bridge from Quernmore Road]
* Pictures of the station and its environs on the [https://www.flickr.com/groups/wwwharringayonlinecom/ Harringay Flickr group]

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