Crouch Hill railway station explained

Crouch Hill
Symbol:overground
Locale:Stroud Green
Borough:London Borough of Islington
Manager:London Overground
Owner:Network Rail
Railcode:CRH
Platforms:2
Fare Zone:3
Events1:Opened
Years1:21 July 1868
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Coordinates:51.5713°N -0.1171°W
Dft Category:E

Crouch Hill railway station is a London Overground station on Crouch Hill in the London Borough of Islington, north London. It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line, 3.8miles from (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction)[1] and is situated between Upper Holloway and Harringay Green Lanes.

The National Location Code (NLC) for this station is 7406.[2]

Design

The station has two platforms, one for each direction. Platform 1 is for trains toward and platform 2 is for trains toward . This station does not have a ticket office except for the security office, which is not officially part of the station but is next to the stairs to one of the platforms. However, staff are present on the platforms during the hours trains are running. This station has two ticket and two Oyster card machines; one for each platform as well as two waiting rooms. This station has a shelter on each platform. The platforms are only reachable by stairs.[3]

There are no current plans to introduce lift access. The station was briefly equipped with APTIS ticketing equipment in 1988–89.

Services

All services at Crouch Hill are operated by London Overground using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between and . During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.[4]

Connections

Whilst the station has no direct interchange to a tube station, station is a fifteen-minute walk away along Stroud Green Road. Archway tube station is also a twenty-minute walk away.

London Buses routes 210 and W7 serve the station.[5] [6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Yonge . John . Padgett . David . Szwenk . John . Bridge . Mike . Railway Track Diagrams 4: Midlands & North West . 3rd . August 2013 . 1990 . Trackmaps . Bradford on Avon . 978-0-9549866-7-4 . map 1R .
  2. http://www.coris.org.uk/jdc/Rail/station_codes.tlc.html National Railway Stations (Sorted by Three Letter Code)
  3. Web site: National Rail Enquiries – Station facilities for Crouch Hill.
  4. Web site: London Overground Timetable: Gospel Oak to Barking. Transport for London. 2 January 2024.
  5. Web site: Crouch Hill Station / Hanley Road. Transport for London. 17 October 2020.
  6. Web site: Crouch Hill Station. Transport for London. 17 October 2020.