25-591: (Redirected from Pon ) [REDACTED] Look up pon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PON or Pon may refer to: Places [ edit ] PON, the station code for Ponders End railway station in London, England People [ edit ] Pon (surname) , including a list of people with the surname Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Fictional characters [ edit ] Pon,
50-470: A loading gauge of W8 except for the Stansted branch, which is W6. Line-side train monitoring equipment includes hot axle box detectors (HABD) on the up main south of Newport (39 miles 48 chains from Liverpool Street) and on the down main north of Shepreth Branch Junction (53 miles 10 chains). There are no wheel impact load detectors (WILD) ‘Wheelchex’ on the line. Major civil engineering structures on
75-551: A route from coalfields in Yorkshire , and there are still freight trains which run occasionally to Harlow and Rye House Power Station , along with a Network Rail base at Broxbourne . The first section was built for the Northern and Eastern Railway from Stratford to Broxbourne and opened in 1840. It was extended northwards in stages, reaching Spellbrook , 3 miles (5 km) short of Bishops Stortford, in 1842. In 1843
100-577: A university consortium Technology [ edit ] Command to connect the Point-to-Point Protocol daemon Passive optical network in fiber optics Other uses [ edit ] A day in the Javanese calendar National Sports Week (Indonesia) ( Pekan Olahraga Nasional ) Pohnpeian language , ISO 639 code PON Polski Owczarek Nizinny , Polish for Polish Lowland Sheepdog Pon (deity) , The Supreme Deity of
125-673: Is PON and it is in Travelcard zone 5 . The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia . It is near to Lee Valley Leisure Complex . The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne , and Ponders End station, was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840. The lines through Ponders End were electrified on 5 May 1969. Prior to the completion of electrification in 1969, passenger services between Cheshunt and London Liverpool Street through Ponders End station were normally operated by Class 125 diesel multiple units (which had been purpose-built for
150-607: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ponders End railway station Ponders End railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line , serving the district of Ponders End in the London Borough of Enfield , north London. It is 9 miles 71 chains (15.9 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is located between Meridian Water and Brimsdown . Its three-letter station code
175-671: Is part of the Network Rail Strategic Route 5 , which comprises SRS 05.01 and part of 05.05. It is classified as a London and South East commuter line. In London, the line forms the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines . The line was initially 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ) gauge, but between 5 September and 7 October 1844 it was converted to 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge . Currently,
200-675: The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed by amalgamation. The opening of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway in 1882 saw the Great Eastern open up a direct link with coal-producing areas in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire joining the line north of Cambridge at Chesterton Junction, generally routed to the large marshalling yards at Temple Mills . Following the grouping in 1923
225-615: The North London Line . In September 2019, the Lea Valley Rail Project was completed between Lea Bridge, and the new station at Meridian Water . This removed the level crossing at Northumberland Park , and added a new third platform for both there and Tottenham Hale , along with a third track. As a result of the new 720 and 745 , platform extensions are necessary at many stations to allow for ten/twelve car trains to stop at stations respectively. However,
250-798: The 1969 electrification Class 305 and Class 308 units. Other units from the GE section such as Class 302 and 306 also operated services during this period, with Class 310s temporarily operating once electrification to Cambridge was complete. These first-generation units were replaced soon after by Class 315 and Class 317 units . In 2011, new Bombardier Class 379s began operation mainly to replace class 317 from Stansted Express duties to mainline services (which in-turn relocated class 315s to inner suburban routes). Class 170 DMUs operate from Stansted Airport north through Cambridge to Birmingham on CrossCountry services. In 2020, new Class 745s were introduced on Stansted Express services, cascading
275-525: The Britannia 4-6-2 class on some main line services until succeeded by diesels in the late 1950s. East Anglia was the first area to be worked completely by diesel trains with Class 31s taking over some express workings. These were succeeded by more powerful Class 37 and Class 47 until full electrification to King's Lynn in the 1980s when Class 86 locomotives took over. Suburban services from about 1958 were operated by Class 125 DMUs, and following
SECTION 10
#1732797275975300-594: The Chingford line) through Tottenham Hale to Cheshunt and from Broxbourne to Bishops Stortford was electrified on 9 March 1969 and from there to Cambridge in 1987. Stratford to Coppermill Junction was electrified in 1989. The power supply is 25 kV AC overhead line . In 1991, a single-track branch line to Stansted Airport was opened, and services to London Liverpool Street commenced. In early 2011, ticket barriers were installed at Bishop's Stortford , Harlow Town , Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Hackney Downs, some of
325-523: The Class 379s to other WAML services. The delayed Class 720s began to replace both class 317s & class 379s on the route on 25 August 2021, with full fleet replacement on this route completed in August 2022. It seems likely that two tracks will be built alongside the line to Cheshunt as part of Crossrail 2 . Intermediate stations from Tottenham Hale will transfer to Crossrail 2 releasing capacity on
350-600: The Gardener's Boy of Jinxland in L. Frank Baum's The Scarecrow of Oz Games [ edit ] Panel de Pon , a game series and the Japanese version of Tetris Attack Brands and enterprises [ edit ] Pon Holdings , a Dutch transportation company Medicine and science [ edit ] Paraoxonase , enzymes Organizations [ edit ] Polska Organizacja Narodowa , later Polish National Organization Program on Negotiation ,
375-686: The West Anglia Main Line include the following. Throughout the steam era trains were predominantly hauled by Great Eastern Railway (or its constituent companies') locomotives: when steam ended in East Anglia in the 1960s some of these locomotives were still operated – see Stratford TMD and Great Eastern Railway . After the grouping of 1923 LNER-designed locomotives were used with the B17 4-6-0 class working many main line services. Following nationalisation in 1948 British Railways introduced
400-623: The Yukaghir people See also [ edit ] Pon Pon , an Italian comic strip " Pon Pon Pon ", a song by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PON . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PON&oldid=1244818090 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
425-465: The boundary between Hertfordshire and Essex for much of its length. In the early years, the line was the main route from London to Cambridge. Following the opening of the Cambridge Line between Hitchin and Cambridge , the West Anglia Main Line is now primarily a commuter route for stations between Cambridge and London. It was an important goods route for many years as the southern end of
450-507: The busiest stations on the line, to reduce the need for ticket inspectors on the Stansted Express service and reduce fare evasion. In May 2015, services from Liverpool Street to Chingford , Enfield Town and Cheshunt via Seven Sisters transferred to London Overground , along with a new station opening at Lea Bridge . In August the same year, a direct covered walkway opened between Hackney Downs and Hackney Central on
475-490: The class 720 has selective door opening , allowing for some platforms not having to be extended. Services from Liverpool Street to Cambridge, Hertford East and Stansted Airport are operated by Greater Anglia . Express services from Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport are operated by Stansted Express , a sub-brand of Greater Anglia. Services from Stansted Airport to Cambridge (and onward to Birmingham New Street via Peterborough ) are operated by CrossCountry . The line
500-630: The early 1960s under British Rail in sections. Electrification to Chingford included the Stratford – Lea Bridge – Hall Farm Junction section (although this was never completed), and the line from Liverpool Street to Broxbourne via Seven Sisters and the Southbury Loop was electrified. The route via Tottenham Hale was still operated by diesel traction, the British Rail Class 125 'Lea Valley' DMUs. The line from Clapton Junction (on
525-496: The line became part of the London & North Eastern Railway . In 1948 following nationalisation the line passed to British Railways Eastern Region . In 1952 the branch from Elsenham to Thaxted (known as the "Gin & Toffee Line") closed to passengers, and goods services were withdrawn a year later. The Saffron Walden line closed to passengers on 7 September 1964 and to freight three months later. Electrification first came in
SECTION 20
#1732797275975550-479: The line has double track for most of its length, with two exceptions at Stansted Airport Tunnel and at Ware . There is also a short section of quadruple track between Hackney Downs and Bethnal Green , from which the West Anglia Main Line runs alongside the Great Eastern Main Line to London Liverpool Street as two of six tracks into the terminus. The line is electrified at 25 kV AC and has
575-466: The line in 1958). All services at Ponders End are operated by Greater Anglia using Class 720 EMUs . The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour in each direction between Hertford East and London Liverpool Street via Tottenham Hale . Additional services call at the station during the peak hours. On Sundays, southbound services at the station run to and from Stratford instead of London Liverpool Street. London Buses route 191 serves
600-732: The line reached Bishops Stortford , and in the following year the Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by the Eastern Counties Railway . It was this railway company opened the section from Bishops Stortford to Cambridge as part of its extension to Ely and Brandon in 1845. By the 1860s the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble, and most were leased to the Eastern Counties Railway. Although they wished to amalgamate formally, they could not obtain government agreement for this until 1862, when
625-754: The station, also the 313 and 491 do, but from a further distance. The station is in the plan for Crossrail 2 Broxbourne branch, but this is very unlikely to happen soon, but may happen in the distant future. West Anglia Main Line The West Anglia Main Line is one of the two main line railways that operate out of Liverpool Street (the other being the Great Eastern Main Line to Ipswich and Norwich ). It runs generally north through Cheshunt , Broxbourne , Harlow , Bishop's Stortford and Audley End (near Saffron Walden ) to Cambridge , with branches between serving Stratford , Hertford and Stansted Airport . The line runs along
#974025