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Harringay railway station also known as Harringay West is a railway station located
off Wightman Road in Harringay, North London. It is on the East Coast Main Line between Finsbury Park and Hornsey and opened
on 1 May 1885. Harringay is managed and served by First Capital Connect. A formal agreement to build a station at Harringay
was made between the British Land Company and the Great Northern Railway in April 1884. The
Land Company needed the station to serve housing it was building to the east of the railway line on the site of Harringay
House, so it contributed £3,500 to the cost and agreed to bear the working costs of the station for an initial period. Contracts
to build the station (including the footbridge) and a road bridge over the Tottenham & Hampstead line went to S.W. Pattinson
of Ruskington for £8,000 and £3,999 respectively in August the same year. The station was constructed
with an up platform as an island serving the up main and up slow, and a single-sided down platform serving the
down slow only. A 300-foot-long footbridge (91 m) was constructed to give access to the station. It stretched from
a station approach road off Wightman Road to the west side of the cutting, where Quernmore Road would eventually be built
some fifteen years later. A booking office was built on the footbridge above the platforms.The station opened to passenger
traffic on 1 May 1885 with a staff complement of a station master, two assistant clerks, two ticket collectors, and three
porters. Although it had been agreed that the station would be named Harringay Park, the GNR public timetable from
May 1885 shows that station was in fact named Harringay from the outset. A goods yard was built to the east of the
line, but the exact date it opened for public traffic is not recorded. In 1900 a second down
slow passenger line was added and the down platform was made an island and widened along its entire length. The 1885
booking office building suffered fire damage in the 1960s and had been almost entirely removed by 1969. It was replaced by
a small timber shack, which still serves as a ticket office today. The station was renamed Harringay West on 18 June
1951, but reverted to Harringay on 27 May 1971.
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