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When the Cockfosters extension was planned, alternative names for this station—"Lordship Lane" and "Wood Green Central"—were considered, but rejected. Architecturally, this station, designed by Charles Holden , is a well-preserved example of the modernist house style Holden developed for London Transport in the 1930s.
The High Road, the main shopping spine, stretches from the Wood Green tube station to the next stop on the Piccadilly line, Turnpike Lane, and is lined with shops along its route. It joins with Green Lanes at both its northern and southern ends. As of 2012, Wood Green has 120,757 square metres (1,299,820 sq ft) of total town centre floorspace. [24]
London Transport AEC Routemaster on Wood Green High Road in April 1981. Today's route 29 traces its history back to a daily route between Victoria and Wood Green via Whitehall, Charing Cross Road, Camden Town, Seven Sisters Road and Green Lanes, Harringay, which began operation on 20 November 1911. [citation needed]
Its site is now occupied by Wood Green Shopping City. The station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway as Green Lanes on 1 January 1878, as the temporary terminus of the line – which was extended to Palace Gates (Wood Green) station on 7 October 1878. Route of Palace Gates Line highlighted on a 1900 map
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.
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Wood Green railway station may refer to: Alexandra Palace railway station , formerly Wood Green railway station and Wood Green (Alexandra Park) railway station, Wood Green, north London Wood Green (Old Bescot) railway station , a former railway station near Wednesbury and Walsall