Crouch Hill railway station

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Crouch Hill
Location of Crouch Hill in Greater London
Location Stroud Green
Local authority London Borough of Islington
Managed by London Overground
Owner Network Rail
Station code(s)CRH
DfT category E
Number of platforms2
Fare zone 3
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20Decrease2.svg 0.597 million [1]
2020–21Decrease2.svg 0.353 million [1]
2021–22Increase2.svg 0.668 million [1]
2022–23Increase2.svg 0.726 million [1]
2023–24Increase2.svg 0.858 million [1]
Key dates
21 July 1868Opened
Other information
External links
Coordinates 51°34′17″N0°07′02″W / 51.5713°N 0.1171°W / 51.5713; -0.1171
Underground sign at Westminster.jpg London transportportal

Crouch Hill is a station on the Suffragette line of the London Overground, located on Crouch Hill in the London Borough of Islington, north London. It is 3.8 miles (6.1 km) from St Pancras (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction) [2] and is situated between Upper Holloway and Harringay Green Lanes.

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The National Location Code (NLC) for this station is 7406. [3]

Design

The station has two platforms, one for each direction. Platform 1 is for trains toward Gospel Oak and platform 2 is for trains toward Barking Riverside. This station does not have a ticket office except for the security office, which is not officially part of the station but is next to the stairs to one of the platforms. However, staff are present on the platforms during the hours trains are running. This station has two ticket and two Oyster card machines; one for each platform as well as two waiting rooms. This station has a shelter on each platform. The platforms are only reachable by stairs. [4]

There are no current plans to introduce lift access. The station was briefly equipped with APTIS ticketing equipment in 1988–89.[ citation needed ]

Services

All services at Crouch Hill are operated by London Overground using Class 710 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside. During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction. [5] [6]

Preceding station  Overground notextroundel.svg National Rail logo.svg London Overground  Following station
Upper Holloway
towards Gospel Oak
  Suffragette line
  Harringay Green Lanes
Disused railways
Hornsey Road   Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway   Harringay Green Lanes

Connections

Whilst the station has no direct interchange to a tube station, Finsbury Park station is a fifteen-minute walk away along Stroud Green Road. Archway tube station is also a twenty-minute walk away.[ citation needed ]

London Buses routes 210 and W7 serve the station. [7] [8]

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References

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