Bowes Park railway station


Bowes Park railway station is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 3 and Travelcard Zone 4. It is down the line from. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Northern, on the Hertford Loop Line. It was first opened by the GNR in 1880, some nine years after the Loop Line itself was completed.
The station is a short walk from Bounds Green Underground station on the Piccadilly line, with which it is a valid out-of-station interchange. It has an unusual location in that it is situated between two quiet residential cul-de-sacs and is accessed from a footbridge over the railway line which divides those streets.
Bowes Park is the only station on the entire Hertford Loop with an island platform.
In autumn 2008, a new Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine, accepting both cash and credit cards, was installed here.
To the north of the station is a single siding in between the two running tracks which is occasionally used to turn around East Coast InterCity 225 and 125 trains heading for Bounds Green Depot just north of Alexandra Palace. A connection to the now disused GER Palace Gates Line whose terminus, Palace Gates, lay just to the south, was made in 1929.

Services

The service runs to Moorgate via Highbury & Islington. The service, which used Class 313 EMUs previously, now uses Class 717 EMUs, as these are the only units cleared to run in the tunnel section between Drayton Park and Moorgate stations.
The typical weekday off-peak service is 4 trains per hour to Moorgate and 4 trains per hour to Hertford North, with one per hour extended to Watton-at-Stone and one per hour extended further Stevenage. Some extra peak services start/finish at On Saturdays & Sundays, the service is half-hourly each way.
If there are rail works on the fast line via New Southgate, London North Eastern Railway, Hull Trains, Grand Central and Great Northern express services directly to the north and Cambridge are diverted via the Hertford Loop.
The following off-peak weekday services currently call at Bowes Park: