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Highbury & Islington
Location	Highbury & Islington
Local authority	London Borough of Islington
Managed by	London Underground
Station code(s)	HHY
Number of platforms	7
London Underground annual entry and exit
2004	10.753 million
2007	13.791 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2006–07	4.809 million
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
London transport portal

Highbury & Islington station is a National Rail, London Overground, and London Underground station in the London Borough of Islington in north London. It serves the suburbs of Highbury and Islington.

On the Underground's Victoria line the station is between Finsbury Park and King's Cross St. Pancras stations. It is on the National Rail North London and Northern City lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

History

The current station derives from two earlier stations. The first, on the same site, was an impressive Victorian-gothic building, with a drive-in forecourt, built in 1872 by the North London Railway (NLR).

The second station, on the opposite side of Holloway Road, was opened on 28 June 1904 was the Great Northern & City Railway (GN&CR) on its underground line, between Finsbury Park and Moorgate. This line and station were operated by the Metropolitan Railway and its successors from 1913 until 1975 when the line, then called the Northern City Line, was transferred to British Rail. Trains do not serve the Northern City Line in the late evening or at weekends, running instead to King's Cross.

The NLR station was damaged by a V-1 flying bomb on 27 June 1944, but its main building remained in use until demolished in the 1960s during the building of the Victoria line. The original westbound platform buildings remain, as does a small part of the original entrance to the left of the present station entrance.

Today's single-storey structure was built in the 1960s for the opening of the Victoria line on 1 September 1968 and is the entrance for all lines. When the escalators to the deep level platforms were opened the GN&CR station building was closed. Its disused entrance remains and was refurbished externally in 2006 - it houses signalling equipment for the Victoria line.

The Victoria line was built to give as many interchanges as possible with Underground and British Rail lines, preferably with cross-platform connection between different lines heading in the same direction. To this end at Highbury & Islington the northbound NCL platform was reallocated to the southbound Victoria line to give a direct link between the two southbound platforms; a new northbound platform was constructed for each line; the northbound running NCL tunnel was diverted to its new platform; and the southbound Victoria tunnel was joined to the old northbound NCL tunnel.

v t e Finsbury Park to Highbury & Islington to Dalston
Legend
East Coast Main Line Finsbury Park Junctions with Canonbury Curve and Northern City Line towards King's Cross Bridge to Emirates Stadium Drayton Park Victoria line Canonbury Curve North London line Highbury & Islington Victoria line Northern City Line Canonbury Dalston Junction Dalston Kingsland East London line North London line

Future

In 2010 Highbury & Islington will become the northern terminus of phase one of the East London Railway extension (part of London Overground) and will have four platforms for that service: the existing two for East London Line trains and two new ones on the north side of the station for North London Line trains. The booking hall will be enlarged and lift access will be provided to all the platforms.

Islington Council is considering redeveloping the site of the current station, and Highbury Corner generally, possibly covering the North London Line tracks with an office block above the site.

Gallery

Victoria line (London Underground)

• Northbound looking south
• Southbound looking north
• Platform motif depicting Highbury House Platform motif depicting Highbury House
• Platform roundel

Great Northern (First Capital Connect)

• Northbound looking south
• Southbound looking north
• Platform signage in Network Southeast style from the 1980s
• Tunnel signage in the style of the previous franchisee, WAGN

North London Line (London Overground)

• Platforms looking east. Tracks here are third rail DC electrified.
• Platforms looking west
• Platform signage, as of summer 2008
• "Special use" platform 7 looking east. This track, AC electrified, is normally used by freight trains and sees no scheduled passenger use.

References

1. Transport for London - Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations - 5 December 2006.
2. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
3. "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
4. Metronet News Issue 8 (page 7)

External links

• Original NLR station
• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • GN&CR station building, shortly after the Metropolitan Railway's absorption into the London Underground, 1933
  • Side entrance to GN&CR building on to Highbury Crescent, 1934
  • Ticket hall of GN&CR station, 1935
  • Combined ticket hall, 1970
  • Northern City Line southbound platform, 1975
  • Combined ticket hall, 2005
  • Entrance to station (note remnant of original NLR building on left), 2005
• Geoffrey Tribe's Railway Photo Halt
  • GN&CR station building, June 1968
  • New station entrance, June 1968

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