Harlow New Town, Essex, c1962 - Harlow Town station
Scanned from an article on London's New Towns, the post-war scheme to reduce the population of London by creating a 'ring' of planned new towns this image, from Transport Age, shows the new (and now Listed) Harlow Town station with its newly electrified suburban services into London Liverpool Street. The station replaced the original Burnt Mill station. The station architecture formed part of only a handful of wholly new BR stations at the time - and is similar in many ways to the contemporary Banbury station - and with similar elements of stations (such as Coventry, Stafford or Wolverhampton) that formed part of the modernisation and electrification of the West Coast Mainline.
The green bus is a reminder than the majority of road transport in the New Towns, such as Harlow, was provided by the Country Bus division of London Transport, itself part of the BTC like BR. How clean and well-ordered this all looks - the station still survives and is busy although, as I waited for the bus in the rain last Thursday evening, much more cluttered.
Harlow New Town, Essex, c1962 - Harlow Town station
Scanned from an article on London's New Towns, the post-war scheme to reduce the population of London by creating a 'ring' of planned new towns this image, from Transport Age, shows the new (and now Listed) Harlow Town station with its newly electrified suburban services into London Liverpool Street. The station replaced the original Burnt Mill station. The station architecture formed part of only a handful of wholly new BR stations at the time - and is similar in many ways to the contemporary Banbury station - and with similar elements of stations (such as Coventry, Stafford or Wolverhampton) that formed part of the modernisation and electrification of the West Coast Mainline.
The green bus is a reminder than the majority of road transport in the New Towns, such as Harlow, was provided by the Country Bus division of London Transport, itself part of the BTC like BR. How clean and well-ordered this all looks - the station still survives and is busy although, as I waited for the bus in the rain last Thursday evening, much more cluttered.