Upper Holloway railway station


Upper Holloway railway station is in Holloway, north London. It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, from and is situated between Gospel Oak and. It is operated by London Overground, and the service is one train every 15 minutes in each direction except late evenings when it is half-hourly. The line is now electrified, and services are operated by 4 car Class 710 EMUs.
The station is a short walk along Holloway Road from on the Northern line. This is currently the most convenient interchange between the two lines, given as on the tube map and maps inside London Overground trains.

Connections

routes 17, 43, 263 and 271 and night route N41 serve the station.

Station Infrastructure

Station facilities are basic with little at street level other than a few signs to indicate the presence of a station. Holloway Road passes over the line and steps and ramps for wheelchair users, buggies, bikes etc. on either side of the bridge lead directly down to the platforms. There are information points, CCTV cameras, information screens and loudspeakers. There are brick-built shelters on each platform and the station staff operate out of a small portable office.
Signs of the station's past remain. The building which used to be the ticket office can be seen beside the south entrance. A footbridge over the track remains but this is closed and the only way over the track is by Holloway Road. The platforms were originally built to accommodate longer trains. The unused sections of platform remain but are closed and in a poor state of repair. The signal box at the end of the platform is still in use.
As of summer 2008, the station has been repainted and re-signed in London Overground colours, with the green-painted staircase railings of the former Silverlink franchise giving way to Overground orange.
The station was formerly located between and station, which both closed in 1943. The cause of the closures was in part related to their close proximity to Upper Holloway station.
The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

Services

There is a 15-minute interval service in operations on both directions throughout the week. From 16 May 2016 until February 2017 however, route upgrade and modernisation work on the route saw the line closed completely east of from 6 June 2016 and all the way from Gospel Oak to Barking from 24 September. Replacement buses operated over the affected sections of line. Weekday trains resumed on 27 February 2017 and the work was completed and commissioned in December 2017.