Upper Holloway railway station is in

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(N19). It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, from (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction) 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

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. The station is a short walk along

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. This is currently the most convenient interchange between the two lines, given as on the tube map and maps inside London Overground trains.

Connections

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routes 17, 43,

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and night route N41 serve the station.

Design

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 (for trains towards Gospel Oak). A footbridge over the track remains, though this is closed and the only way over the track is via 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. In summer 2008, the station was repainted and re-signed in London Overground colours, with the green-painted staircase railings (for example) 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 (including Sundays). From 16 May 2016 until February 2017 however, route upgrade and modernisation work on the route (as part of planned electrification) 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."TfL tries to reduce line-closure time for GOBLIN electrification"
''Rail Technology Magazine'' article 2 February 2016; retrieved 23 May 2016 Weekday trains resumed on 27 February 2017 and the work was completed and commissioned in December 2017.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Upper Holloway Railway Station Railway stations in the London Borough of Islington DfT Category E stations Former Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1868 Railway stations served by London Overground