Caledonian Road tube station

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Caledonian Road
Location
Place	Holloway
Local authority	Islington
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	3.977 million
Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1906
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Caledonian Road is a station on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, between King's Cross St. Pancras and Holloway Road, and in Travelcard Zone 2. It was opened on 15 December 1906.

Caledonian Road station is located on the north end of Caledonian Road in Holloway, north London. The station is one of the few with deep platforms to continue to use lifts, never having been upgraded to escalators.

[edit] Service Pattern

The typical off-peak service from this station is as follows:

12 tph to Heathrow Airport via Central London
3 tph to Rayners Lane via Central London
3 tph to Uxbridge via Central London
3 tph to Northfields via Central London
18 tph to Cockfosters
3 tph to Arnos Grove

[edit] Transport and local connections

London Buses routes 17, 91 and 259 serve the station. Route 274 stops close by.

Caledonian Road and Barnsbury station on the North London Line is about half a mile to the south.

The station is close to Pentonville Prison and Caledonian Park, the site of the former Victorian Metropolitan Cattle Market, is a short distance away on Market Road.