Moor Park tube station

Moorpark is an aboveground station London Underground. It is operated by the Metropolitan Line, located at the boundary of Travelcard zones 6 and 7, and is one of 14 stations outside of Greater London. It is located on Main Avenue in the town of Moorpark, in the district of Three Rivers the county of Hertfordshire. 0.82 million passengers used the station in 2011.

The station is located on the four-track stretch towards Harrow-on- the-Hill and has two central platforms. The northern platform serves the local trains, the southern express trains of the Metropolitan Line. Until the late 1990s kept here also trains the railway company Chiltern Railways, this drive since then without stopping.

History

The route to Rickmansworth was opened by the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line) already in 1887. At the beginning, however, the population density was very low in the area, which is why the opening of the station was only on 9 May 1910. The name of the station was initially Sandy Lodge, after the neighboring golf course. The station was renamed on October 18, 1923 in Moor Park & ​​Sandy Lodge.

On January 5, 1925, the Section Harrow-on- the-Hill was - Rickmansworth electrified. On November 2nd of the same year the opening of the branch line towards Watford, which was electrified from the start was made. With the renewed renamed on September 25th 1950 in Moorpark any indication accounted for the golf course. After the station in 1959 had been completely rebuilt, the distance between Northwood Hills and the north-west of Moorpark branch Croxleyhall three years later received a second dual track.