Upper Holloway railway station

Upper Holloway
Upper Holloway Location of Upper Holloway in Greater London
Location	Upper Holloway
Local authority	London Borough of Islington
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	UHL
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes [1]
Fare zone	2
OSI	Archway [2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2009–10	0.285 million[3]
2010–11	0.506 million[3]
2011–12	0.736 million[3]
2012–13	0.901 million[3]
2013–14	1.087 million[3]
2014–15	1.166 million[3]
Key dates
1868	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°33′50″N 0°07′47″W / 51.5638°N 0.1298°WCoordinates: 51°33′50″N 0°07′47″W / 51.5638°N 0.1298°W
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Upper Holloway railway station is in Holloway, North London, near Archway (N19). It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, between Gospel Oak and Crouch Hill. It is operated by London Overground, and the service is one train every 15 minutes in each direction except late evenings when it is half-hourly. The line is not electrified, and services are operated by two-car Class 172 DMUs.

The station is a short walk along Holloway Road from Archway on the Northern line. This is currently the most convenient interchange between the two lines, given as 490 yards (450 m) on the maps inside London Overground trains (but the interchange is not mentioned on London Underground maps).

Connections

London Buses routes 17, 43, 263 and 271 and night route N41 serve the station.

Station Infrastructure

Station facilities are basic with little at street level other than a few signs to indicate the presence of a station. Holloway Road passes over the line and steps and ramps for wheelchair users, buggies, bikes etc. on either side of the bridge lead directly down to the platforms. There are information points, CCTV cameras, information screens and loudspeakers. There are brick-built shelters on each platform and the station staff operate out of a small portable office.

Signs of the station's past remain. The building which used to be the ticket office can be seen beside the south entrance (for trains towards Gospel Oak). A footbridge over the track remains but this is closed and the only way over the track is by Holloway Road. The platforms were originally built to accommodate longer trains. The unused sections of platform remain but are closed and in a poor state of repair. The signal box at the end of the platform is still in use.

As of summer 2008, the station has been repainted and re-signed in London Overground colours, with the green-painted staircase railings (for example) of the former Silverlink franchise giving way to Overground orange.

The station was formerly located between Junction Road and Hornsey Road station, which both closed in 1943. The cause of the closures was in part related to their close proximity to Upper Holloway station.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

Services

There is a 15-minute interval service in operations on both directions throughout the week (including Sundays).^[4] From 16 May 2016 until February 2017 however, route upgrade & modernisation work on the route (as part of planned electrification) will see the line closed completely east of South Tottenham from 6 June 2016 and all the way from Gospel Oak to Barking from 24 September. Replacement buses will operate over the affected sections of line.^[5] The work is due to be completed and commissioned in December 2017.

References

1. "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
2. "Out-of-Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
3. "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
4. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 62
5. "TfL tries to reduce line-closure time for GOBLIN electrification" Rail Technology Magazine article 2 February 2016; Retrieved 23 May 2016

External links

• Train times and station information for Upper Holloway railway station from National Rail