Kentish Town station

Kentish Town

Kentish Town Location of Kentish Town in Greater London
Location	Kentish Town
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Station code	KTN
DfT category	F1
Number of platforms	4 (6 total)
Fare zone	2
OSI	Kentish Town West ^[1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2013	6.45 million^[2]
2014	7.72 million^[2]
2015	10.49 million^[2]
2016	8.36 million^[2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	1.506 million^[3]
2012–13	1.695 million^[3]
2013–14	1.869 million^[3]
2014–15	2.239 million^[3]
2015–16	2.844 million^[3]
Key dates
1868	Opened (Midland)
1907	Opened (CCE&HR)
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	TfL station info page Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°33′01″N 0°08′26″W / 51.5504°N 0.1406°W / 51.5504; -0.1406Coordinates: 51°33′01″N 0°08′26″W / 51.5504°N 0.1406°W / 51.5504; -0.1406
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Kentish Town is a London Underground and National Rail station in Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden. It is at the junction of Kentish Town Road (A400) and Leighton Road. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station is served by the High Barnet branch of the London Underground Northern line, and by Thameslink trains on the National Rail Midland Main Line. It is between Camden Town and Tufnell Park on the Northern line and between West Hampstead and St Pancras International stations on the main line.

It is the only station on the High Barnet branch with a direct interchange with a National Rail line, additionally an Out of Station Interchange (OSI) with Kentish Town West on the North London Line is permitted.

There are four National Rail surface platforms and two London Underground underground platforms. National Rail trains are operated by Thameslink and Southeastern, with northbound trains running to Luton and southbound to Sutton, Orpington and Sevenoaks, via London St. Pancras and Blackfriars. East Midlands Trains express services from Nottingham, Sheffield and Leicester pass through but do not stop.

Ticket barriers control access to both London Underground and National Rail platforms.

History

The entrance on Kentish Town Road in 1955

The Victorian Super Outer Circle route, passing through Kentish Town station

The first station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1868 on the extension to its new London terminal at St Pancras. Prior to that, Midland Railway trains used the London and North Western Railway lines to Euston or the Great Northern Railway lines to King's Cross. Until the St. Pancras extension was complete, and for some time afterwards, some trains exchanged the locomotive at Kentish Town for one fitted with condensing apparatus and continued to Moorgate station, then named Moorgate Street station. For some years trains ran from Kentish Town to Victoria station on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.

The second largest motive power depot and repair facility on the Midland Rail was north of the station.^[4] In 1861 a collision occurred at a siding near the station in which 16 people were killed and 317 were injured.

From May 1878 to September 1880 the MR Super Outer Circle service ran through the station, from St. Pancras to Earl's Court Underground station via Cricklewood and South Acton.^[5] The main line station was rebuilt in 1983, nothing of the original station building remains. The separate London Underground station was opened on 22 June 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR), a precursor of the Northern line.^[6] The station was designed by Leslie Green with the ox-blood red glazed terracotta façade and the semi-circular windows at first floor level common to most of the original stations on the CCE&HR and its two associated railways, the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway which opened the previous year. When Kentish Town station opened the next CCE&HR station south was South Kentish Town but that station closed in 1924 due to low usage.^[7] Gospel Oak station on the North London Line opened in 1860 as "Kentish Town" but was given its present name in 1867 when the North London Railway opened Kentish Town West. It was the junction of services to Barking until 1981 when services were diverted to terminate and start from Gospel Oak. The spur line to Junction Road Junction was then closed, the track was removed and the trackbed has been sold for industrial use.

The station's northbound Northern line platform.

National Rail platforms at Kentish Town station.

Development

Trains from south of the River Thames on the extended Thameslink network may call at the station from 2018.^[8]

After the bay platforms at Blackfriars station closed in March 2009, Southeastern services which previously terminated at Blackfriars were extended to Kentish Town (off-peak), or St Albans, Luton or Bedford (peak hours).^[9]

A major upgrading of the whole Thameslink line infrastructure is underway, for expected completion by 2018. However, the four platforms at Kentish Town station are not being extended from eight to 12 carriages because of road bridges at each end which cannot be relocated,^[10] so only services that continue to be served by eight-car trains will be able to call there. The only other Thameslink stations north of the River Thames remaining with eight-car platform lengths will be Hendon and Cricklewood, which are sited either side of a possible new Thameslink station at Brent Cross.

Connections

First Capital Connect train with a southbound Thameslink service.

London Buses routes 134, 214, 393 and C2 and night route N20 serve the station.

References

↑ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLS). Transport for London. May 2011. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
1 2 3 4 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. March 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
↑ Radford, B., (1983) Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby London: Bloomsbury Books
↑ "Circle Line, History". Clive's Underground Line Guides. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
↑ Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
↑ Connor, J.E. (1999). "South Kentish Town". London's Disused Underground Stations. Capital Transport. p. 22. ISBN 1-85414-250-X.
↑ "Thameslink Programme - FAQ". Retrieved 21 November 2008.
↑ "Train times 22 March - 16 May 2009 Thameslink route" (PDF). First Capital Connect. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
↑ Archived 9 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine.

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Train times and station information for Kentish Town station from National Rail
London Transport Museum Photographic Archive Station building in 1925.

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
West Hampstead Thameslink		Thameslink Thameslink	St Pancras International
Preceding station		London Underground	Following station
Tufnell Park towards Mill Hill East or High Barnet		Northern line	Camden Town towards Morden or Kennington
Historical railways
Haverstock Hill Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Midland Main Line	Camden Road (Midland) Line open, station closed
Terminus		Great Eastern Railway Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway	Highgate Road Line open, station closed
	Former service
Preceding station		London Underground	Following station
Tufnell Park towards Highgate		Northern line (1907–24)	South Kentish Town towards Charing Cross or Clapham Common

Northern line

Stations

High Barnet branch	High Barnet Totteridge & Whetstone Woodside Park West Finchley Mill Hill East Finchley Central East Finchley Highgate Archway Tufnell Park Kentish Town Camden Town
Edgware branch	Edgware Burnt Oak Colindale Hendon Central Brent Cross Golders Green Hampstead Belsize Park Chalk Farm Camden Town
Central section via Charing Cross	Camden Town Mornington Crescent Euston Warren Street Goodge Street Tottenham Court Road Leicester Square Charing Cross Embankment Waterloo Kennington
Central section via Bank	Camden Town Euston King's Cross St. Pancras Angel Old Street Moorgate Bank London Bridge Borough Elephant & Castle (100m)
Morden line	Kennington Oval Stockwell Clapham North Clapham Common Clapham South Balham Tooting Bec Tooting Broadway Colliers Wood South Wimbledon Morden
Future extension to Battersea	Kennington Nine Elms Battersea Power Station

Rolling
stock

Present stock	1995 Stock
Former stock	1906 Stock 1938 Stock 1949 Stock 1956 Stock 1959 Stock 1962 Stock 1972 Stock Standard Stock

History

Former companies	City and South London Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Edgware, Highgate and London Railway Underground Electric Railways Company of London
Former lines	Northern City Line
Former stations	City Road Essex Road Finsbury Park Highbury & Islington Drayton Park King William Street South Kentish Town
Abandoned plans	Northern Heights plan Aldenham depot Alexandra Palace Brockley Hill Bushey Heath Cranley Gardens Crouch End Elstree South Mill Hill Muswell Hill North End Stroud Green

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Transport in London

Companies and
organisations

Transport for London	Air Line Buses East London Transit Night Buses Coach Station Cycle Hire Dial-a-Ride London Rail Docklands Light Railway London Overground TfL Rail Tramlink Crossrail (under construction) Crossrail 2 (proposed) London River Services London Streets London Underground Night Tube Source London Taxi and Private Hire office
Bus operators	Abellio Arriva East Herts & Essex Arriva London Arriva Southern Counties CT Plus Go-Ahead London London Sovereign London United Metrobus Metroline Quality Line Stagecoach London Tower Transit Uno
River operators	Bateaux London City Cruises Crown River Cruises Livett's Launches Lower Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Company Thames Clippers Thames Executive Charters Thames River Services Westminster Passenger Services Association
Train operators	Arriva Rail London c2c Caledonian Sleeper Chiltern Railways East Midlands Trains Eurostar Govia Thameslink Railway Gatwick Express Great Northern Southern Thameslink Grand Central Great Western Railway Greater Anglia Stansted Express Heathrow Connect Heathrow Express Hull Trains London Midland (to December 2017) South Western Railway Southeastern TfL Rail Virgin Trains (West Coast) Virgin Trains East Coast West Midlands Trains (from August 2017)
Other	Global Infrastructure Partners Heathrow Airport Holdings Port of London Authority

Airports

Within London	City Heathrow Private: Biggin Hill Damyns Hall London Heliport Military: Northolt
Outside London	Gatwick Luton Southend Stansted Proposed: Thames Estuary

Major stations

Central area	Bank/Monument Baker Street Blackfriars Bond Street Cannon Street Charing Cross City Thameslink Euston Farringdon Fenchurch Street King's Cross Liverpool Street London Bridge Marylebone Moorgate Oxford Circus Paddington St Pancras International Tottenham Court Road Vauxhall Victoria Waterloo Waterloo East Westminster
Other	Barking Bromley South Canary Wharf Clapham Junction Ealing Broadway East Croydon Finsbury Park Heathrow Stations Highbury & Islington Ilford Lewisham London City Airport Orpington Putney Richmond Romford Stratford Surbiton Sutton Wimbledon

Roads

Motorways	M1 M4 M11 M25 London Orbital Former: M41 (West Cross Route) A40(M) (Westway) A102(M) (East Cross Route)
Ring roads	London Inner Ring Road London Ringways North Circular Road South Circular Road
Charging	Congestion charge Low emission zone

Ticketing

Other

Former BR sectors

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Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

Thameslink and Great Northern routes serving this station
Thameslink Wimbledon Loop	Bedford Flitwick Harlington Leagrave Luton Luton Airport Parkway Harpenden St Albans City Radlett Elstree & Borehamwood Mill Hill Broadway Hendon (Brent Cross Thameslink planned) Cricklewood West Hampstead Thameslink Kentish Town St Pancras International Farringdon City Thameslink London Blackfriars Elephant & Castle Loughborough Junction Herne Hill Tulse Hill Streatham Tooting Haydons Road Wimbledon Wimbledon Chase South Merton Morden South St Helier Sutton Common West Sutton Sutton Carshalton Hackbridge Mitcham Junction Mitcham Eastfields
Thameslink Sevenoaks line	Bedford Luton St Albans City West Hampstead Thameslink Kentish Town St Pancras International Farringdon City Thameslink London Blackfriars Elephant & Castle Denmark Hill Peckham Rye Nunhead Crofton Park Catford Bellingham Beckenham Hill Ravensbourne Herne Hill West Dulwich Sydenham Hill Penge East Kent House Beckenham Junction Shortlands Bromley South Bickley Petts Wood Orpington St Mary Cray Swanley Eynsford Shoreham Otford Bat & Ball Sevenoaks

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

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