- For the North London Line station, see Kentish Town West railway station.
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| Location | Kentish Town |
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| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | KTN, ZKT |
| Number of platforms | 4 (6 total) |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2006 | 5.838 million[1] |
| 2007 | 6.433 million[2] |
| 2008 | 7.100 million[3] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 0.383 million[4] |
| 2005–06 | 0.444 million[4] |
| 2006–07 | 1.388 million[4] |
| 2007–08 | 1.111 million[4] |
| 2008–09 | 0.885 million[4] |
| 1868 | Opened (Midland) |
| 1907 | Opened (CCE&HR) |
| Lists of stations | *DLR |
| External links | *Departures
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Kentish Town station 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 First Capital Connect 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, although Out of Station Interchange (OSI) with Kentish Town West is permitted.
There are four National Rail surface platforms and two London Underground underground platforms. East Midlands Trains InterCity services from Leeds, Sheffield and Leicester pass through but do not stop.
History[]
The National Rail 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.[5] In 1861 a collision occurred at a siding near the station in which sixteen people were killed and 317 were injured.
The Victorian Super Outer Circle route, passing through Kentish Town station
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.[6]
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.[7] 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 & Waterloo Railway and Great Northern Piccadilly & 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.[8] 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 Line 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.
In popular culture[]
The 1980 TV Rumpole of the Bailey special, Rumpole's Return, used the Underground station for a scene with a fatal stabbing on the northbound platform.
Development[]
Trains from south of the River Thames on the extended Thameslink network may call at the station from 2015, when the present Sutton Loop trains may terminate at London Blackfriars[9].
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).[10] Trains south of Blackfriars services are operated by Southeastern crews, north of Blackfriars by First Capital Connect crews.[11]
A major upgrading of the whole Thameslink line infrastructure is underway, for expected completion by 2015. However, the four platforms at Kentish Town station are not being extended from 8 to 12 carriages. The only other Thameslink stations north of the River Thames remaining with 8-car platform lengths will be Hendon and Cricklewood, which are sited either side of a possible new Thameslink station at Brent Cross.
Transport links[]
London bus routes 134, 214, 393, 88 and night route N20.
Service patterns[]
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Northern line | towards Morden or Kennington
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toward [[Template:S-line/National Rail left/Thameslink station|Template:S-line/National Rail left/Thameslink]]
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Thameslink Sutton Loop |
toward [[Template:S-line/National Rail right/Thameslink station|Template:S-line/National Rail right/Thameslink]]
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toward [[Template:S-line/National Rail left/Thameslink station|Template:S-line/National Rail left/Thameslink]]
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Thameslink Bedford-Sevenoaks |
toward [[Template:S-line/National Rail right/Thameslink station|Template:S-line/National Rail right/Thameslink]]
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| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Haverstock Hill | Midland Railway Midland Main Line |
Camden Road (Midland) | ||
| Terminus | Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway | Highgate Road | ||
References[]
- ↑ Template:Citation London Underground performance exits 2003 to 2011
- ↑ Template:Citation London Underground performance exits 2003 to 2011
- ↑ Template:Citation London Underground performance exits 2003 to 2011
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Template:Citation ORR rail usage data
- ↑ 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 on 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, 22. ISBN 185414-250-X.
- ↑ Thameslink Programme - FAQ. Retrieved on 21 November 2008.
- ↑ Train times 22 March - 16 May 2009 Thameslink route. First Capital Connect. Retrieved on 20 March 2009.
- ↑ "First photos of FCC 377s released" - Today's Railways, Issue 84, p67
External links[]
- Train times and station information for Kentish Town station from National Rail
- Template:Ltmcollection Station building in 1925.
Gallery[]
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Coordinates: 51°33′01″N 0°08′26″W / 51.5504°N 0.1406°W
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