Highbury & Islington station
Highbury & Islington station is a National Rail, London Overground and London Underground station, in the London Borough of Islington in North London. It serves the suburbs of Highbury and Islington. The name is often shortened to simply Highbury.
Highbury & Islington | |
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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 | |
2017 | 20.09 million[2] |
2018 | 17.89 million[3] |
2019 | 17.50 million[4] |
2020 | 8.22 million[5] |
2021 | 8.34 million[6] |
National Rail annual entry and exit | |
2013–14 | 15.840 million[7] |
– interchange | 2.037 million[7] |
2014–15 | 19.976 million[7] |
– interchange | 2.893 million[7] |
2015–16 | 28.166 million[7] |
– interchange | 2.834 million[7] |
2016–17 | 29.853 million[7] |
– interchange | 3.837 million[7] |
Key dates | |
1850 | 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 rebuilt |
June 2010 | North London Line platforms re-opened |
March 2011 | East London Line platforms opened |
Other information | |
External links | |
WGS84 | 51°32′45″N 0°06′18″W / 51.5458°N 0.1050°W |
The station is on the Underground's Victoria Line, between Finsbury Park and King's Cross St. Pancras. It is also on the National Rail North London line and Northern City Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.
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Future
changeThe North London Line reopened on 1 June 2010; however, the East London Line platforms did not open until March 2011.
Islington Council is currently considering redeveloping the site of the current station, and Highbury Corner generally, including possibly covering over the North London Line tracks and building an office block above the site..
Victoria line (London Underground)
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Northbound looking south
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Southbound looking north
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Platform roundel
Great Northern (First Capital Connect)
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Northbound looking south
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Southbound looking north
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Platform signage in the Network Southeast style from the 1980s
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Tunnel signage in the style of the previous franchisee, WAGN
North London Line (London Overground)
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Platforms looking east. Tracks here are third rail DC electrified.
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Platforms looking west
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Platform signage, as of summer 2008
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"Special use" platform 7 looking east. This track, AC electrified, is normally used by freight trains, and therefore sees no normal passenger use.
References
change- ↑ "Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations". Transport for London. 5 December 2006. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ↑ "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ↑ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 21 August 2019. Archived from the original on 22 May 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
Other websites
change- "A woodcut of the former NLR Highbury Station". Archived from the original on 28 June 2007.
- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- GN&CR station building, shortly after the Metropolitan Railway's merger into the London Underground, 1933
- Side entrance to GN&CR building on to Highbury Crescent, 1934
- Ticket hall of GN&CR station, 1935
- Combined ticket hall, 1970
- Northern City Line southbound platform, 1975
- Combined ticket hall, 2005
- Entrance to station (note remnant of original NLR building on left), 2005
- Geoffrey Tribe's Railway Photo Halt Archived 2016-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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towards Brixton | Victoria line | towards Walthamstow Central |
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London Overground | ||||
towards Richmond or Clapham Junction | North London Line | towards Stratford |
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National Rail | ||||
Essex Road | First Capital Connect Northern City Line Monday-Friday only |
Drayton Park | ||
From Early 2011 | ||||
Terminus | London Overground East London Line |
Canonbury |