History
The station was opened in 1848 by the Eastern Counties Railways as "Enfield"
A house which stood on the site since the late 17th century is said to have been the birthplace of Isaac D'Israeli (father of Benjamin Disraeli) and later to have become a school, where John Keats was educated. It became the station house before being demolished in 1872. The fine seventeenth-century brickwork facade, once attributed to Sir Christopher Wren was dismantled, and reconstructed in the South Kensington Museum.
Its place was taken by a brick station building with an attached station-master's house and a walled forecourt. This in turn was replaced in 1957 by the present building by the British Railways architect HH Powell. Ticket barriers were installed in 2012.
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