Edmonton Green railway station


Edmonton Green is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, located in Edmonton in the London Borough of Enfield, north London. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the south and and to the north. Its three-letter station code is EDR and it is in London fare zone 4.

History

Edmonton Green was opened as Edmonton on 22 July 1872 by the Great Eastern Railway on its new, more direct line from London. The station was renamed Lower Edmonton on 1 July 1883, with the suffix being dropped when the low level station closed on 11 September 1939. The name of Edmonton Green was adopted on 28 September 1992 as being more indicative of the area served and to promote the nearby Edmonton Green Shopping Centre.
The ticket hall was rebuilt in the early 1980s, and barriers were installed in 2012. Lifts to the platform level became operational in 2015. In 2015 the Lea Valley lines transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia operation to London Overground. This resulted in the ability of entitled Freedom Pass holders to use their passes at any time, as on the Underground. Edmonton Green was also then added to the Tube map.

Services

All services at Edmonton Green are operated as part of the Weaver line of the London Overground using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
Additional Overground services call at the station during the weekday peak hours, when the Enfield Town service is increased from 2 to 4 tph. Greater Anglia operated a limited peak-time service between Liverpool Street and Hertford East via Seven Sisters that called here until May 2023, when it was withdrawn.

Connections

London Buses routes 102, 144, 149, 191, 192, 259, 279, 349, 491, W6, W8, school route 616 and night route N279 serve the station, from the adjacent Edmonton Green bus station.