Upper Holloway railway station

Upper Holloway London Overground
The station in 2020
Upper Holloway is located in Greater London
Upper Holloway
Upper Holloway
Location of Upper Holloway in Greater London
LocationUpper Holloway
Local authorityLondon Borough of Islington
Managed byLondon Overground
OwnerNetwork Rail
Station code(s)UHL
DfT categoryE
Number of platforms2
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone2
OSIArchway London Underground[2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19Increase 1.088 million[3]
2019–20Decrease 0.974 million[3]
2020–21Decrease 0.595 million[3]
2021–22Increase 1.063 million[3]
2022–23Increase 1.159 million[3]
Key dates
1868Opened
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°33′50″N 0°07′47″W / 51.5638°N 0.1298°W / 51.5638; -0.1298
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Upper Holloway railway station is in Holloway, north London (N19). It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line, 3 mileschains (4.8 km) from St Pancras (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction)[4] and is situated 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 now electrified, and services are operated by 4 car Class 710 EMUs.

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 tube map and maps inside London Overground trains.

  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. ^ a b c d e "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  4. ^ Yonge, John; Padgett, David; Szwenk, John (August 2013) [1990]. Bridge, Mike (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 4: Midlands & North West (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 1R. ISBN 978-0-9549866-7-4.