Ponders End railway station

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Ponders End

Location

Place

Ponders End

Local authority

Enfield

Operations

Station code

PON

Managed by

National Express East Anglia

Owned by

Network Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.126 million

2005/06 *

0.122 million

Transport for London

Zone

History

Key dates

Opened 1840

Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ponders End from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

UK Railways Portal

Ponders End railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines, 16 km (10 miles) north of London Liverpool Street. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by National Express East Anglia.

It is located at grid reference TQ360955.

1 History
2 Service
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne, and Ponders End station, was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840.^[1]

The lines through Ponders End were electrified on May 5, 1969.^[2]

[edit] Service

From Ponders End there is an half-hourly service to London Liverpool Street southbound and to Hertford East railway station northbound. Sundays the service is hourly each direction, (northbound towards Bishop's Stortford railway station).

The typical journey to Liverpool Street is 20 minutes.

[edit] References

^ Brown, Joe, London Railway Atlas, page 5, Ian Allan Publishing, 2006
^ White, H.P., A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 3 Greater London, David & Charles, 1987