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(Richard J.) wrote:

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

That's right. Joe Brown's London Railway Atlas shows it opening as
Forty Hill when the line (Southbury Loop) was built in 1891. There
was a suspension of passenger services from 1909 to 1915 and again
from 1919. It was renamed as Turkey Street when it reopened in 1960.

When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of "Southbury
Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when the general
trend was closures.

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Colin Rosenstiel