The Anonymous Widower

Return From White Hart Lane

I returned to central London, by taking the train from White Hart Lane station.

It is another station that has seen better days and it doesn’t seem to have improved much since I used it in the 1960s to go to see Spurs at White Hart Lane.

White Hart Lane Station

Note the stairs in the picture.  In common with most stations on this line they are rather steep and given the numbers of people on match days at White Hart Lane, surely something better should be done.

The Class 315 trains were built in the early 1980s and despite being thirty years old aren’t that bad. They are certainly better than the slam door stock, that I used to use all those years ago.

The slam door stock did have the great advantage in that as you approached Enfield Town station, you could fold the door back, so that when the train had slowed to your running speed, you could jump and start running to be first in the queue for the old 107 bus for Oakwood. I never had an accident doing that and I won’t now, as sadly slam door trains are no more.

I can just about remember the old compartment stock used with the steam tank engines on that line and others out of King’s Cross.  As the compartments on these trains were essentially private, one game played by many, but not me, was seeing if you could have it off between stations.

August 20, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Sport, Transport/Travel | Football, Riots, Tottenham, Tottenham Hotspur, Trains