Highbury & Islington station
Highbury & Islington is a railway station in the London Borough of Islington. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 at the junction of four main roads. In 2011, it took 16.26 million subway passengers, added 7.625 million passengers by rail.
Plant
On two levels, three different railway lines cross. The first level consists of a station on the North London Line ( NLL ). This is operated by London Overground railway line runs east -west direction and travels around as a semi- circular line the city center of London. Also, here is the northern terminus of the East London Line. The second level is located a few meters below the A1 trunk road. Here runs in a north -south direction, the Northern City Line (NCL ), which is served Monday to Friday from suburban trains of the company First Capital Connect (on weekends the mode is set ). Parallel to the Northern City Line run the tracks of the Victoria Line, a line of the London Underground.
History
The Highbury & Islington Station was born from the merger of two previous stations. The first stood on the site of the current station building. It was built in 1872 by the North London Railway and was an impressive building in neo-Gothic style, with a right of way for horse-drawn carriages. Although the route already existed since 1850, but had been previously driven on only by freight trains that were traveling on the Docklands into Birmingham.
On the opposite side of Holloway Road there was the second station of the Great Northern & City Railway ( GN & CR), on the line between Finsbury Park and Moorgate. Was opened the station on June 28, 1904, approximately four and a half months after commissioning of the track. This later became known as the Northern City Line route was acquired in 1913 by the Metropolitan Railway and operated since 1933 as part of the Northern Line.
On 27 June 1944 German V1 rocket destroyed most of the NLR station, only a few elements were preserved. Today's one-story building was built in the 1960s during the construction of the Victoria Line. After installation of escalators, the building of the GN & CR was closed. After a renovation in 2006, it houses signaling devices on the subway.
The opening of the first section of the Victoria Line was carried out on 1 September 1968. Highbury & Islington was for a short time the southern terminus before the line was further extended on 1 December of the same year towards the city center to Warren Street. The underground operation on the Northern City Line ended on 4 October 1975 to allow the reconstruction of the station ( construction of two new platforms ). British Rail took over the route and took on August 16, 1976, operating again. After the privatization of British Rail in 1994 WAGN took over the operation of the suburban trains, since April 1, 2006, First Capital Connect jurisdiction.
On 11 November 2007, Transport for London took the previously rendered by Silverlink services on the North London Line and executes them since then under the name of London Overground. Since March 2011, Highbury & Islington is the northern terminus of the extended East London Railway, which is also operated as part of London Overground.