Canonbury railway station

• North London Line
• East London Line

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The Canonbury railway station is in the London Borough of Islington in Travelcard Zone 2 It is administered by Transport for London and exclusively operated by London Overground trains that operate on the North London Line and the East London Line. In 2011, 0.773 million passengers use the station.

History

The predecessor of the railway station was opened in 1858 by the North London Railway east of the present site under the name Newington Road & Balls Pond, but was then given the name 1870 Canonbury and the present location. The station was part of the North London Line and is operated at the time of the British Rail commuter trains between Richmond or Watford Junction to Broad Street. After the closure of Broad Street 1986, he was served only by trains of the NLL connection Richmond North Woolwich. After the privatization of British Rail Canonbury came along with the train route from Richmond to North Woolwich under the franchise of Silverlink Metro. In 2007, the Transport for London, the Silverlink Metro lines and operates since then under the name of London Overground, see ' Stratford- North Woolwich was shut down. The TfL also decided at that time still the underground network, the East London Line to extend north to Dalston and Highbury & Islington and south to Crystal Palace and West Croydon and also to integrate into the Overground network. For this reason, the Canonbury station was completely rebuilt. Due to the high volume of traffic ( six trains per hour on the North London Line and eight trains per hour on the East London Line ) of the pre-existing on the North London Line four-track section between Camden Road and Highbury & Islington also been extended to Canonbury. Before this section was the freight reserved. The station received a new ticket hall and two new tracks. In the course of signal work and platform extensions, the North London Line was closed between Gospel Oak and Stratford for four months. In the course of this work, the North London Line in the area of ​​Canonbury was moved to the north, so that the NLL trains stop new to the newly created platforms 3 and 4, while the since March 2011 trains connecting the East London Line, the previous tracks 1 and 2 use.

Canonbury Curve

West of the station pushes the Canonbury Curve for the North London Line, a leading by the Canonbury tunnel connection to the East Coast Main Line in Finsbury Park. The connection, however, is reserved exclusively for the carriage of goods and allows a connection between the ECML and the Great Eastern Main Line. Formerly, the compound is of importance as a connection of the Docklands around Poplar on the main access route to North East England and Scotland.

Function

The station has as its main function, the offering of a Umsteigeknotens between the North London Line and the East London Line. It has disabled access and provides accessibility to and between platforms at. The transfer hubs also as shown in the network nodes Dalston Junction / Dalston Kingsland is on two busy main roads.

Operation

The surgical operation is carried out by London Overground. In addition to the North London Line and the East London Line also direct connections to the West London Line will be offered.

• Clapham Junction Kensington (Olympia ) Willesden Junction Gospel Oak - Canonbury -Stratford (twice hourly)
• Richmond - Willesden Junction Gospel Oak - Canonbury -Stratford ( four times an hour )
• Highbury & Islington - Dalston Junction - Whitechapel - New Cross Gate Crystal Palace ( four times an hour )
• Highbury & Islington - Dalston Junction - Whitechapel - New Cross Gate Norwood Junction - West Croydon