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A former station also named Alexandra Palace, sited actually at the venue, was on the Highgate-Alexandra Palace Line, while Palace Gates (Wood Green) station was on the Palace Gates Line. Just outside the station to the north is Bounds Green train depot , used for storage and maintenance of the high-speed trains used on the main line.
Alexandra Palace is a closed railway station in the grounds of Alexandra Palace in the Muswell Hill area of north London. It is one of a number of stations to have held the name at various times and should not be confused with the current Alexandra Palace station which is on the East Coast Main Line to the east of the closed station.
Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in North London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey.A Grade II listed building, [2] it is built on the site of Tottenham Wood and the later Tottenham Wood Farm. [3]
Alexandra Palace television tower, June 2012. The Alexandra Palace television station in North London ( grid reference TQ297901 ) is the oldest television transmission site in the world. What was at the time called "high definition", ( 405-line ) the world's first TV broadcasts on VHF were beamed from this mast from 1936 until the outbreak of ...
With the nearby GNR built stations at Alexandra Palace and Hornsey providing a more direct route to central London, the catchment areas for the line's stations were always fairly small and the opening in 1932 of the first section of the Piccadilly line extension to Cockfosters with stations at Wood Green and Turnpike Lane diminished them further, crucially eroding the line's passenger traffic.
The company was established by a local Act of Parliament, the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway Act 1862, passed on 3 June 1862. [1] The route, measuring 8.75 miles (14.08 km), [2] ran through parts of rural Middlesex (now suburban north London) from Finsbury Park through Stroud Green, Crouch End, Highgate, Finchley and Mill Hill to Edgware.
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The branch line from the Great Northern Railway's (GNR's) station at Highgate to Alexandra Palace was built by the Muswell Hill Railway (MHR) and opened on 24 May 1873. [1] Cranley Gardens station opened on 2 August 1902. [2] In 1911, the line was taken over by the GNR.