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(Richard J.) wrote:

Basil Jet wrote on 03 May 2014 13:06:34 ...

At Turkey Street Station a brook flows pretty much beneath the station.
Just west of the station is an extra bridge over the river, which seems
to hold nothing except a small shop. I can't understand why a bridge
over a brook would have been built, just so a shop can be put on it. The
only thing I can think of is that the shop used to be a mill, but it
doesn't look like a mill.

Is the shop in the original station building? According to Wikipedia
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_...ailway_station :

"When originally built the station was on the other side of the
railway bridge and a wide footbridge over the Turkey 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 a newsagent and general 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."

Turkey Street station was closed from the First World War until the Bishop's
Stortford electrification in the early 1960s, was it not?

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Colin Rosenstiel