Brimsdown | |
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.jpg) Platforms at Brimsdown Station in October 2023, looking north | |
  Brimsdown Location of Brimsdown in Greater London | |
| Location | Brimsdown |
| Local authority | London Borough of Enfield |
| Managed by | Greater Anglia |
| Owner | |
| Station code | BMD |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes[1] |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2019–20 |  1.058 million[2] |
| 2020–21 |  0.501 million[2] |
| 2021–22 | 0.822 million[2] |
| 2022–23 | 0.938 million[2] |
| 2023–24 | 1.051 million[2] |
| Key dates | |
| 1 October 1884 | Opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°39′20″N0°01′51″W / 51.6556°N 0.0308°W /51.6556; -0.0308 |
 London transport portal | |
Brimsdown railway station is on theWest Anglia Main Line, serving the neighbourhood ofBrimsdown in theLondon Borough of Enfield, north London. It is 10 miles 61 chains (17.3 km) down the line fromLiverpool Street and is situated betweenPonders End andEnfield Lock. Its three-letter station code is BMD and it is inLondon fare zone 5.
The station and all trains serving it are operated byGreater Anglia.
Brimsdown station was used in 1951 as a location for part of theAlexander Mackendrick filmThe Man in the White Suit, starringAlec Guinness, as the station where Sidney Stratton tries to buy a ticket near the end of the film.[3]
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The railway line fromStratford toBroxbourne was opened by theNorthern and Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840. The station itself (which at one time was to be named Green Street) was financed by a local landowner and developer, and built by builder W Bangs & Co. The station opened on 1 October 1884, and services were operated by theGreat Eastern Railway (GER).[4]
A signal box built byMcKenzie and Holland was provided with 15 levers to operate points and signals, and this was enlarged in 1899 to have 32 levers. In 1928 it was recorded as having a 42-lever frame, so further expansion had clearly taken place in the intervening years.[citation needed]
Some goods sidings were located on the up side, and a short branch to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock joined these from the east. There was also a siding to a power station.[5]
At the start of 1923, the GER amalgamated with several other railways to create theLondon and North Eastern Railway as a result of thegrouping of the UK's railways into four major companies.[6]
The station was bombed on 22 July 1944; the signal box was destroyed.[7]
Following nationalisation of the railways in January 1948, Brimsdown became part ofEastern Region of British Railways.
The lines through Brimsdown were electrified on 5 May 1969.[8] Prior to the completion of electrification in 1969, passenger services between Cheshunt and London Liverpool Street through Brimsdown station were normally operated byClass 125 diesel multiple units (which had been purpose-built for the line in 1958).[citation needed]
Onsectorisation in the 1980s the station was managed and served byNetwork SouthEast.
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As with most of the UK, management of the nationally owned track and signals passed in 1994 toRailtrack, which was succeeded byNetwork Rail in 2004.
In August 2002, signalling control for the relevant section of track was transferred to the Liverpool Street Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC).[9]
Followingprivatisation in 1994, operation of the station was allocated to a business unit before being taken over byWest Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) in January 1997, at the time owned byPrism Rail.National Express acquired the franchise-holder in July 2000.
The WAGN franchise was replaced in 2003 by the One franchise later renamedNational Express East Anglia.
Oyster card readers came into use on 2 January 2010.[10]
In February 2012 operation of the station changed once again, withAbellio Greater Anglia taking over the franchise.
All services at Brimsdown are operated byGreater Anglia usingClass 720EMUs.[citation needed]
The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour in each direction betweenHertford East andLondon Liverpool Street viaTottenham Hale. Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.[11]
On Sundays, southbound services at the station run to and fromStratford instead of London Liverpool Street.[citation needed]
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London Buses routes191,307 and491 serve the station.
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