Brimsdown railway station
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 Brimsdown
Location of Brimsdown in Greater London
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| Location | Brimsdown |
| Local authority | London Borough of Enfield |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | BMD |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes [1] |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 0.328 million[2] |
| 2005–06 |  0.315 million[2] |
| 2006–07 |  0.461 million[2] |
| 2007–08 | 0.533 million[2] |
| 2008–09 | 0.519 million[2] |
| 2009–10 | 0.453 million[2] |
| 2010–11 | 0.466 million[2] |
| 2011–12 | 0.508 million[2] |
| 2012–13 | 0.599 million[2] |
| 2013–14 | 0.658 million[2] |
| 2014–15 | 0.764 million[2] |
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| 1884 | Opened |
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Brimsdown railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London. The station is in Travelcard Zone 5, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines, 17 km (10¾ miles) north of London Liverpool Street. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.
In 1951, Brimsdown railway station was used as the set for part of the Alexander Mackendrick film The Man in the White Suit, starring Alec Guinness (the station where Sidney Stratton tries to buy a ticket near the end of the film).[3]
History
The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840. The station itself was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1884.[4]
The lines through Brimsdown were electrified on 5 May 1969.[5]
Service
There is a half-hourly service southbound to London Liverpool Street via Hackney Downs and two trains per hour northbound to Hertford East. Sundays there is an hourly service towards Liverpool Street via Hackney Downs and to Hertford East.
Oyster Card Readers came into use on 2 January 2010.[6]
Connections
London Buses routes 191, 307 and 491 serve the station.
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- Train times and station information for Brimsdown railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
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- ↑ Internet Movie Database locations Retrieved 7 July 2009
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/oyster-rail-services-map.pdf
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