Turkey Street
Turkey Street Station
Turkey Street Location of Turkey Street in Greater London
Location	Enfield
Local authority	London Borough of Enfield
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	TUR
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	6
National Rail annual entry and exit
2020–21	0.340 million[1]
2021–22	0.686 million[1]
2022–23	0.778 million[1]
2023–24	1.022 million[1]
2024–25	0.991 million[1]
Key dates
1 October 1891	Opened asForty Hill
1 October 1909	Closed
1 March 1915	Re-opened
1 July 1919	Closed
21 November 1960	Re-opened asTurkey Street
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°40′21″N0°02′50″W / 51.6726°N 0.0472°W /51.6726; -0.0472
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Turkey Street is a station on theWeaver line of theLondon Overground, located in theBullsmoor area to the north ofEnfield in north London. It is 12 miles 16 chains (19.6 km) down the line fromLondon Liverpool Street and is situated betweenSouthbury andTheobalds Grove stations on theSouthbury Loop section of theLea Valley lines.^[2] It is inLondon fare zone 6.

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The railway line from Bury Street Junction, north of the currentEdmonton Green station, toCheshunt was opened by theGreat Eastern Railway on 1 October 1891. It was known as the Churchbury Loop.

The district served by the line was still predominantly rural, and the coming of thetram toWaltham Cross in 1904 saw the railway unable to compete. Passenger services ceased on 1 October 1909, but were reinstated for the benefit of munitions workers between 1 March 1915 and 1 July 1919.

After that the line was only served by freight trains until the line was electrified as part of a wider scheme, and Turkey Street station reopened to passengers on 21 November 1960.^[3] The line is now known as the Southbury Loop.

The station was opened asForty Hill and did not gain its current name until 1960. The goods depot at the station closed in 1966.^[4]

The current station building was built in the late 1980s. The previous and original station building had a prominent tall chimney stack for the station master's coal fire which brought the top of the chimney above platform level. The station itself is constructed on an incline and the ticket office area of the track is raised on an embankment so the chimney was very prominent. The interior of the original station consisted of a large ticket hall with the station master's office and serving hatch on the left hand side of the entrance. A tunnel opposite the entrance led to the stairs to theCheshunt-bound platform. This tunnel was used in the rebuild. To the right were the stairs to the Liverpool Street platform. The stairwells were also reused in the rebuild, but the concrete steps were replaced with steel.

When originally built the station was on the other side of the railway bridge and a wide footbridge over theTurkey Brook led directly to the Cheshunt-bound platform. This entrance was disused from the early 1970s onwards and the former station building was converted to anewsagent andgeneral store; the footbridge was used for storage for the shop and the entrance to the actual station area had a large iron gate but was bricked up when the station was rebuilt.

The platforms were of standard length and had large open-fronted waiting areas with concrete walls and felt-covered wooden roofs with a long single bench along the rear wall. These were demolished when the station was rebuilt.

In the 1980s the station was served byBritish Rail Class 305EMUs going to and from London Liverpool Street and Cheshunt. Around the same time as the rebuild the 305s were slowly replaced byBritish Rail Class 315. The Cheshunt service was extended to Hertford East in the late 1980s, utilising the existing main line from Cheshunt toBroxbourne and the existing branch to Hertford East. However, in the late 1990s the services again only ran as far as Cheshunt.

On 31 May 2015 the station and all services that call here, transferred fromAbellio Greater Anglia toLondon Overground Rail Operations.^[5][6] The station was rebuilt once again in 2017.

All services at Turkey Street are operated as part of theWeaver line of theLondon Overground usingClass 710EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[7]

• 2 tph toLondon Liverpool Street
• 2 tph toCheshunt

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Southbury towardsLiverpool Street		Weaver line Weaver Lea Valley lines		Theobalds Grove towardsCheshunt,Chingford orEnfield Town

London Buses routes121,217,279,317, school routes617,627 and night routeN279 serve the station.^[8][9]

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