EAW044313 ENGLAND (1952). Part of Finsbury Park, the Woodberry Down Estate and West Reservoir, Stamford Hill, 1952

Metropolitan Electric Tramways (MET) offices.

Site of Manor House Tram Station which consisted of 80 ft long loading islands with seats and concrete canopies, and stairway connections to the Piccadilly Line underground line which had been extended through to Arnos Grove on 19th September 1932. With the coming of the trolleybus they remained in use until 1939 and were demolished in 1951.

A trolleybus at the Manor House terminus, one of at least ten that can be found in this photograph. Only one route actually terminated here, the 623 from woodford (Napier Arms) introduced on Sunday 18th October 1936, extended from From the Ferry Boat Inn, Tottenham which was the original terminus of the tram it replaced. Joined over time by seven other routes passing through - 627, 659, and 679 along the Seven Sisters Road, and 521, 621, 629, and 641 along Green Lanes. This was therefore a busy junction on the system, in 1950 over 274 trolleybuses an hour passed through the junction, and a further 15 on route 623 turning and terminating in front of the LT traffic offices. As has been noted in other photos, tram service 33 also terminated at the juction with Green Lanes until withdrawal in April of 1952. With the trolleybus to diesel bus conversion plan under way route 623 was the first to be withdrawn, 26th April 1960, followed by the others over the next 18 months. 627, 629, 659 and 679 went on the 25th April 1961, and the final routes - 641, 521 / 621 went on the 7th November 1961.

The redundant tram lines have been cut back to where the conduit system handed over to the overhead wire. The slots in the centre of the running rails can be seen coming together so as north bound trams can leave the "plough" as it was called and the south bound ones collect theirs. This link explains. http://dewi.ca/trains/conduit/ploughs.html