Bowes Park railway station explained

Bowes Park
Manager:Great Northern
Fare Zone:3
Fare Zone 1:4
Locale:Bowes Park
Borough:London Borough of Haringey
Events1:Opened
Platforms:2
Dft Category:E
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Railexits1011: 0.725
Railexits1112: 0.815
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Railexits1819: 0.788
Railexits1920: 0.672
Railexits2021: 0.158
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Railcode:BOP
Interchange:Bounds Green
Symbol:rail
Coordinates:51.6078°N -0.1209°W
Years1:1880

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. It is down the line from .[1] 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 Underground 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 Govia Thameslink Railway stations).

To the north of the station is a single siding in between the two running tracks which is occasionally used to turn around trains heading to 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

All services at Bowes Park are operated by Great Northern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

Ticketing

Oyster pay and go has been accepted at the station since 2 January 2010.[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Padgett, David . Brailsford . Martyn . Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern . 4th . October 2016 . 1988 . Trackmaps . Frome . 978-0-9549866-8-1 . map 24A .
  2. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/london/oystercard.html Oyster Card and National Rail, National Rail Enquiries Website