Bowes Park railway station

Bowes Park National Rail

Bowes Park station entrance
Bowes Park
Location of Bowes Park in Greater London
Location Bowes Park
Local authority London Borough of Haringey
Managed by Great Northern
Station code BOP
DfT category E
Number of platforms 2
Fare zone 3 and 4
OSI Bounds Green [1]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05  0.174 million[2]
2005–06 Increase 0.214 million[2]
2006–07 Increase 0.314 million[2]
2007–08 Increase 0.559 million[2]
2008–09 Steady 0.559 million[2]
2009–10 Increase 0.618 million[2]
2010–11 Increase 0.725 million[2]
2011–12 Increase 0.815 million[2]
2012–13 Increase 0.958 million[2]
Key dates
1880 Opened
Other information
Lists of stations
External links
London Transport portal
UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°36′28″N 0°07′15″W / 51.6078°N 0.1209°W

Bowes Park railway station is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 3 and Travelcard Zone 4. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Northern, on the Hertford Loop Line. It was first opened by the GNR in 1880, some nine years after the Loop Line itself was completed.

The station is a short walk from Bounds Green tube station on the Piccadilly line, with which it is a valid out-of-station interchange. It has an unusual location in that it is situated between two quiet residential cul-de-sacs and is accessed from a footbridge over the railway line which divides those streets.

Bowes Park is the only station on the entire Hertford Loop with an island platform.

In autumn 2008, a new Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine, accepting both cash and credit cards, was installed here (and similarly at other local First Capital Connect stations).

To the north of the station is a single siding in between the two running tracks which is occasionally used to turn around East Coast InterCity 225 and 125 trains heading for Bounds Green Depot just north of Alexandra Palace. A connection to the now disused GER Palace Gates Line whose terminus, Palace Gates (Wood Green), lay just to the south, was made in 1929.

Services

The service runs to Moorgate on weekdays until about 10.00pm, and into London King's Cross after 10.00pm Mondays to Fridays and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. On weekdays the service uses class 313 EMUs, as these are the only units cleared to Moorgate; at weekends class 317 EMUs are used as well as class 313.

The typical weekday off-peak service is 3 trains per hour to Moorgate, and 3 trains per hour to Hertford North, with one per hour extended to Letchworth Garden City via Stevenage. On Saturdays & Sundays, the service is half-hourly each way.

If there are rail works on the fast line via New Southgate, Virgin Trains East Coast, First Hull Trains, Grand Central Railway and Great Northern express services directly to the north and Cambridge are diverted via the Hertford Loop.

The following off-peak weekday services currently call at Bowes Park:

Ticketing

References

  1. ↑ "Out of Station Interchanges" (MICROSOFT EXCEL). Transport for London. May 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  3. ↑ Oyster Card and National Rail, National Rail Enquiries Website

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Preceding station National Rail Following station
Alexandra Palace   Great Northern
Hertford Loop Line		   Palmers Green