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Location notes
Overlooking the Midland Main Line, about 8 miles north of St Pancras.
Railway type and traffic
Mostly Midland Main line HST’s and Turbostars (170’s) soon to in clued 221 Meridians. Only a small amount of freight.
Link to Real Time Trains
RTT Link Five Ways, Hendon
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Environment
High traffic footbridge between two north London housing estates, . You get some funny looks from the locals. But probably best avoided after dark.
Road directions
Heading out of London on the A1 pull into the BP service station after Five Ways Corner. Keep left to get into the car park.
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Five Ways, Hendon map co-ordinates
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Parking
Best to park in the 5 Ways Retail park as the petrol station is quite busy. There may be time restrictions in the car park.
Public transport
Amenities
The location is next to a large petrol station with a shop and bakery etc, if you are really hungry there is a TGI Friday’s there too!
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Five Ways, Hendon
Streetmap links
Five Ways, Hendon general view map
Five Ways, Hendon close up map
Windows Local Live Link - image quality may vary
Five Ways, Hendon
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Five Ways, Hendon
Googly map
Five Ways, Hendon general view map
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Five Ways, Hendon
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Photographic notes
The location is best suited to northbound services and is on the east side of the line so it will favour morning light. There are shots of southbound trains but there is pretty much no notice of approaching trains until they are right on top of you. The southbound slow road is closest to the location and you can get an interesting set of height based angles on trains, but still with the advanced notice restraint.
Extra video notes
Although the location looks good the line runs parallel to the M1 motorway, traffic noise makes the location pretty much unusable unless you are shooting silent movies or post dubbing the audio.
Extra video notes
Although the location looks good the line runs parallel to the M1 motorway, traffic noise makes the location pretty much unusable unless you are shooting silent movies or post dubbing the audio.
Links to photographs at this location
Rail-net - Last runs of the 47's
General views - All photographs © Albert Dawson unless otherwise stated
Fig 1 - Looking south
The main shot of northbound trains, they can be framed between the OLE masts.
Fig 2 - Looking north
However the reverse of fig 1 is marred by the OLE mast.
Fig 3 - Looking south
This telephoto shot shows the curve to the south of the location, it was masked in mid winter by bushes. In the summer it will be hidden by them.
Fig 4 - Looking north
Coming down the steps of the footbridge offers a different set of perspectives by varying the height against the track. This shot is only useful for southbound slow trains.
Fig 5 - Looking north
Coming down the steps of the footbridge offers a different set of perspectives by varying the height against the track lower still this time. This shot is only useful for southbound slow trains.
Fig 6 - Looking south
Advance notice of southbound trains is very limited as this snatched shot will testify.
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The information on these pages is supplied for the benefit of railway enthusiasts who carry out a harmless hobby, and through the medium of photography and video, actually promote the railway industry. Railway enthusiasts can also act as eyes and ears against railway vandalism, and as such should surely be encouraged to do so by the supply of adequate information such as is found on this website.
This site has been created to assist railway photographers in their travels around the country. It is based on the personal knowledge and experience. No liability can be held against the web site or its contributions for incorrect information. Trainspots will endeavour to check all information and corrections will be accepted and posted accordingly.
Advice as to the locations general environment is given as a guide on each page. This information is a GUIDE only. ALWAYS be careful with your equipment, Trainspots can not be held responsible for your personal security. Avoid leaving your property on display for all to see, be aware of your surroundings at all times. There are, sadly, people who will not think twice about trying to steal your equipment.
Trainspots DOES NOT condone trespass and none of the information on this site should be taken as a right to trespass on either railway or private land. To the best of our knowledge all locations are publicly accessible areas, where they are not contact information will be given to the appropriate authority for permission to be obtained.
The content of this site is created and intended for all age ranges but the content of sites linked from this site are not subject to the same intentions. Trainspots will attempt to check links for validity but as time passes and the site grows this will not always be possible. Broken, or indeed updates to, links should be submitted to the editor for inclusion in the updates. All links external to the Trainspots site are opened in a new browser window. Trainspots has been running now for over 10 years and there are imitation sites and guides to railfotspots. But we are a free site and we continue on the path we started out on over a decade ago to provide a useful guide to UK Railway Photographic Locations.
