There was a big craft fair in the Great Hall of Alexandra Palace during its birthday celebrations last weekend, and I was leaving it through a door I hadn't been through before, when I found myself outside what had been the main entrance to the Palace a century or so ago, looking down the great flight of steps to the top of the Avenue. Various people standing around agreed that this entrance hadn't been opened to the public for decades.
There is a platform before you get to the steps, under which would have run the railway (en route to Highgate and Finsbury Park, along what is now Parkland Walk). Next to the steps is of course the old Alexandra Palace station building (CUFOS). More recently there were used car auctions where the railway had been (somebody standing nearby said his father bought his first car there, for £16, if I remember right).
Photos of the old railway and station, and more info., here.
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