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In the May 2015 timetable, weekday services on the branch can be found on table 21. The general pattern from Liverpool Street is a half-hourly all stations service to Enfield Town and a half-hourly service to Cheshunt (also all stations) with additional peak hour services. Journey time from Enfield Town to Liverpool Street is around 33 minutes.
Silver Street station is located on a long straight section of elevated track, on the Lea Valley lines from Liverpool Street to Cheshunt and Enfield Town.Looking north, the platforms at Edmonton Green can be seen (there is just 50 chains (1.0 km) between the two stops) whilst looking south, trains leaving White Hart Lane are seen almost immediately as they leave that station (it being only 64 ...
The final section linked Lower Edmonton on the Enfield branch via Churchbury (later Southbury) with the Broxbourne line at Cheshunt, opening on 1 October 1891; it was known as the Churchbury loop until the renaming of that station in 1960, then the Southbury loop. A station was proposed near Clapton called Queens Road but never opened. [4]
The original route thence declined in importance from this date and it was at this time the station was renamed Lower Edmonton (Low Level). By law the GER was required to run a number of cheap workmen's trains to the city and these generally operated between Liverpool Street and Lower Edmonton (Low Level) via Stratford or Clapton. [4]
The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a 114.5-mile (184.3 km) major railway line on the British railway system which connects Liverpool Street station in central London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including Shenfield, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich.
In 1998 the route was extended south from Liverpool St station to London Bridge station. The service was converted to an articulated bus operation in 2004 with a fleet of Mercedes-Benz O530G and withdrawn north of Edmonton, with new route 349 taking over.
The expansion of Liverpool FC's Anfield stadium has led to repeated calls to open the line to passengers and the building of a station to serve the stadium and the Anfield area. [11] It was announced in December 2019 that Liverpool City Council had commissioned a feasibility study to see about reopening the Canada Dock Branch to passenger ...
The Broadgate development was constructed between 1985 and 1991, with 330,000 m 2 (3,600,000 sq ft) of office space on the site of the former Broad Street station and above the Liverpool Street tracks. [77] Proceeds from the Broadgate development were used to help fund the station modernisation. [78]