Travelling in the 1960s

[pitdiver]

I'm not sure whether this is the correct area but I have a query about travelling by train in the mid 60's
Would it have been possible to travel from the Stansted (Essex):area to Either White Hart Lane or Northumberland Park stns

 

[Sleeper]

All three stations appear on a 1967 Eastern Region timetable map, so yes. What was then called Stansted is now called Stansted Mountfitchet, and the airport branch had yet to be built.

It isn't clear from the information to hand whether through trains ran from Stansted to either of the others - I'd guess you'd have to change at Bishops Stortford or Liverpool Street.

Out of curiosity, why do you doubt whether such journeys were possible in the 1960s?

 

[pitdiver]

It's not that I wasn't sure I just didn't know as I have not got sight of an Eastern Region timetable of that era.

 

[PeterC]

I have a summer 1963 timetable there was no direct service. A change would always be required at Bishops Stortford and then at Lower Edmonton for White Hart Lane or Cheshunt for Northumberland Park.

Trains from north of Stortford always ran fast to LST. Trains starting at Stortford normally run all stations to Lower Edmonton and Lea Valley trains started at Broxbourne or Cheshunt.

 

[30907]

The Lea Valley line was dmu worked at that time, while the Southbury Loop had only reopened on electrification in 1960 or so. Stansted had a very limited service (I recall a 2-hourly DMU Cambridge-Stortford), though pre electrification there were a handful of through stopping trains to/from London.