The first station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1868 on the extension to its new London terminal at. Prior to that, Midland Railway trains used the London and North Western Railway lines to or the Great Northern Railway lines to King's Cross. Until the St. Pancras extension was complete, and for some time afterwards, some trains exchanged the locomotive at Kentish Town for one fitted with condensing apparatus and continued to Moorgate station, then named Moorgate Street station. For some years trains ran from Kentish Town to Victoria station on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. The second largest motive power depot and repair facility on the Midland Rail was north of the station. In 1861 a collision occurred at a siding near the station in which 16 people were killed and 317 were injured. From May 1878 to September 1880 the MR Super Outer Circle service ran through the station, from St. Pancras to Earl's CourtUnderground station via and. The main line station was rebuilt in 1983, nothing of the original station building remains. The separate London Underground station was opened on 22 June 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, a precursor of the Northern line. The station was designed by Leslie Green with the ox-blood red glazed terracotta façade and the semi-circular windows at first floor level common to most of the original stations on the CCE&HR and its two associated railways, the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway which opened the previous year. When Kentish Town station opened the next CCE&HR station south was South Kentish Town but that station closed in 1924 due to low usage. station on the North London Line opened in 1860 as "Kentish Town" but was given its present name in 1867 when the North London Railway opened. It was the junction of services to Barking until 1981 when services were diverted to terminate and start from Gospel Oak. The spur line to Junction Road Junction was then closed, the track was removed and the trackbed has been sold for industrial use. platform. platforms at Kentish Town station.
Design
There are four National Rail surface platforms and two London Underground underground platforms. Ticket barriers control access to both London Underground and National Rail platforms.
National Rail trains are operated by Thameslink, with northbound trains running to Luton and southbound to Sutton, Orpington and Sevenoaks, via London St. Pancras and Blackfriars. East Midlands Railway express services from Nottingham, Sheffield and Leicester pass through but do not stop. Trains from south of the River Thames on the extended Thameslink network may call at the station from 2018. After the bay platforms at Blackfriars station closed in March 2009, Southeastern services which previously terminated at Blackfriars were extended to Kentish Town, or St Albans, Luton or Bedford. A major upgrading of the whole Thameslink line infrastructure is underway, for expected completion by 2018. However, the four platforms at Kentish Town station are not being extended from eight to 12 carriages because of road bridges at each end which cannot be relocated, so only services that continue to be served by eight-car trains will be able to call there. The only other Thameslink stations north of the River Thames remaining with eight-car platform lengths will be and, which are sited either side of a possible new Thameslink station at Brent Cross.
Connections
routes 134, 214, 393 and C2 and night route N20 serve the station.
