Highbury & Islington station

Highbury & Islington London Underground London Overground National Rail
Highbury & Islington
Location of Highbury & Islington in Greater London
Location Highbury & Islington
Local authority London Borough of Islington
Managed by London Underground[1]
Station code HHY
DfT category C2 (Great Northern platforms)
F1 (London Overground)
Number of platforms 8
Accessible Yes (Overground platforms only)
Fare zone 2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011 Increase 16.26 million[2]
2012 Increase 16.77 million[2]
2013 Increase 18.13 million[2]
2014 Increase 18.28 million[2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2009–10 Increase 5.668 million[3]
— interchange  Increase 0.174 million[3]
2010–11 Increase 7.625 million[3]
— interchange  Increase 0.319 million[3]
2011–12 Increase 11.801 million[3]
— interchange  Increase 1.963 million[3]
2012–13 Increase 14.700 million[3]
— interchange  Decrease 1.766 million[3]
2013–14 Increase 15.840 million[3]
— interchange  Increase 2.037 million[3]
2014–15 Increase 19.976 million[3]
— interchange  Increase 2.893 million[3]
Key dates
1872 Opened (NLR)
1904 Opened (GN&CR)
1968 Opened (Victoria line)
1975 Closed (Northern line (Highbury Branch))
1976 Opened (Northern City Line)
Feb 2010 Overground Platforms closed for rebuilding
June 2010 North London Line Platforms re-open
March 2011 East London Line Platforms open
Other information
Lists of stations
External links
London Transport portal
UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°32′45″N 0°06′18″W / 51.5458°N 0.1050°W / 51.5458; -0.1050

Highbury & Islington station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the London Borough of Islington in north London. It is served by the Victoria line, London Overground's East and North London Lines and Great Northern's Northern City Line.[4]

On the Underground Victoria line the station is between Finsbury Park and King's Cross St. Pancras stations. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.[5]

To allow new four-car trains to run on the London Overground network, the North London Line between Gospel Oak and Stratford was closed between February and May 2010 while a new signalling system was installed and 30 platforms were extended. During this closure, the Highbury & Islington station ticket hall was extended and step-free access installed to all of the London Overground platforms. The North London Line reopened on 1 June 2010; however, the East London Line platforms did not open until March 2011, whilst the Western Curve was reinstated, linking the station to Dalston Junction and the rest of the East London Line.[6]

History

The current station derives from two earlier stations. The first, which was on the same site, was an impressive Victorian-gothic building, with a drive-in forecourt, built in 1872 by the North London Railway (NLR).

The second station, on the opposite side of Holloway Road, was opened on 28 June 1904 by the Great Northern & City Railway (GN&CR) on its underground line, between Finsbury Park and Moorgate. This line and stations were operated by the Metropolitan Railway and its successors from 1913 until 1975 when the line, by then called the Northern City Line, was transferred to British Rail. The route is now operated by Great Northern.

The NLR station was damaged by a V-1 flying bomb on 27 June 1944, however, its main building remained in use until it was demolished in the 1960s during the building of the Victoria line. The original westbound platform buildings remain, as does a small part of the original entrance to the left of the present station entrance.

Today's single-storey structure was built in the 1960s for the opening of the Victoria line on 1 September 1968 and is the entrance for all lines. When the escalators to the deep level platforms were opened the GN&CR station building was closed. Its disused entrance remains and was refurbished externally in 2006 – it houses signalling equipment for the Victoria line.[7]

The Victoria line was built to give as many interchanges as possible with Underground and British Rail lines, with, wherever possible, cross-platform connection between different lines heading in the same direction. To this end at Highbury & Islington the northbound Northern City Line platform was reallocated to the southbound Victoria line to give a direct link between the two southbound platforms; a new northbound platform was constructed for each line; the northbound running NCL tunnel was diverted to its new platform; and the southbound Victoria tunnel was joined to the old northbound NCL tunnel.

Former train operating company Anglia Railways ran services known as London Crosslink from Norwich to Basingstoke via Stratford, which called at Highbury & Islington. This service operated from 2000 until 2002.

Platforms

Highbury & Islington has a total of eight platforms, divided between those that are on the surface and those that are deep level:

Surface platforms

Platforms for North London Line (NLL) and East London Line (ELL) services are operated by London Overground. On 1 June 2010, following the temporary closure of the route from February 2010 to May 2010, NLL services were rerouted to the newly built platforms 7 and 8 for the AC lines, which replaced the old "special use" platform. Platforms 1 and 2, which previously served the NLL route on third rail lines were closed from February 2010 for reconstruction and reopened in 2011 for the ELL services. The change of platforms allows ELL services to operate without having to cross over NLL tracks.

Deep level platforms

Platforms 3 to 6 are deep-level platforms. Platforms 3 and 5 are used for services on the Victoria line; 4 and 6 are used for Great Northern services on weekdays only.

Services

London Overground

All times below are correct as of May 2011.

East London Line

Mondays to Saturdays there is a service every 6–9 minutes throughout the day, while on Sundays before 13:00 there is a service every 15 minutes, changing to every 7–8 minutes until the end of service after that.[8]

North London Line

Mondays to Fridays there is a service approximately every 7–8 minutes throughout the morning and evening peaks, changing to roughly every 10 minutes off-peak. On Saturdays the service is approximately every 10 minutes. Sunday services have now resumed and are similar in frequency to the services on Saturdays.[9]

Great Northern

Mondays to Fridays there is a service approximately every 4–15 minutes until 10:00, when the frequency is every 10 minutes until 16:00, when the frequency again changes to between every 4–15 minutes until the end of service. Prior to December 2015, weekend and evening services were diverted to Kings Cross from Finsbury Park.[10]

London Underground

Victoria line

Westbound there is a service every 2–5 minutes all day, all week. Eastbound there are services every 2–8 minutes all day, all week.[11][12]

Lines

Preceding station   London Underground   Following station
towards Brixton
Victoria line
Preceding station   London Overground   Following station
towards Richmond
North London Line
towards Stratford
TerminusEast London Line
National Rail
Great Northern
  Former Service  
Camden Road or
West Hampstead		   Anglia Railways
London Crosslink		   Stratford
Preceding station   London Underground   Following station
towards Finsbury Park
Northern line
Northern City branch
towards Moorgate
  Abandoned plans  
Northern line
towards Moorgate

Connections

London Buses routes 4, 19, 30, 43, 271, 277 and 393 and night routes N19 and N41 serve the station.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  3. ↑ "Home - Transport for London". www.tfl.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  4. ↑ TFL.gov.uk
  5. ↑ "In Pictures: The East London Line Extension To Highbury & Islington". Londonist. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  6. ↑ Metronet News Issue 8 (page 7)
  7. ↑ East London Line timetable from 22 May 2011
  8. ↑ North London Line timetable from 22 May 2011.
  9. ↑ "Seven-day-a-week service to the City better for late-returning commuters and weekend shoppers" (Press release). Govia Thameslink Railway. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  10. ↑ Journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk
  11. ↑ Journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Highbury & Islington station.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, December 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.