Crouch Hill railway station

Crouch Hill
The station
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 platforms	2
Fare zone	3
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	0.597 million [1]
2020–21	0.353 million [1]
2021–22	0.668 million [1]
2022–23	0.726 million [1]
2023–24	0.858 million [1]
Key dates
21 July 1868	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°34′17″N0°07′02″W / 51.5713°N 0.1171°W / 51.5713; -0.1171
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.

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

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Legend
Station National Rail Liberty line Accessible station Thameslink Lioness line Interchange station Elizabeth line Mildmay line Accessible interchange Docklands Light Railway Suffragette line Internal interchange London Underground Weaver line Out-of-station interchange London Trams Windrush line (   ) Nearby interchange London River Services

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		London Overground		Following station
Upper Holloway towards Gospel Oak		Suffragette line Gospel Oak to Barking line		Harringay Green Lanes towards Barking Riverside
	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]}

References

1. "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. Yonge, John; Padgett, David; Szwenk, John (August 2013) [1990]. Bridge, Mike (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 4: Midlands & North West (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 1R. ISBN   978-0-9549866-7-4.
3. National Railway Stations (Sorted by Three Letter Code) Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
4. "National Rail Enquiries – Station facilities for Crouch Hill".
5. Table 62 National Rail timetable, December 2023
6. "London Overground Timetable: Gospel Oak to Barking" (PDF). Transport for London . Retrieved 2 January 2024.
7. "Crouch Hill Station / Hanley Road". Transport for London. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
8. "Crouch Hill Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 17 October 2020.

External links

• Train times and station information for Crouch Hill railway station from National Rail