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| Location | Kentish Town |
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| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | KTN, ZKT |
| Platforms in use | 4 (6 total) |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| NR 2004/5 usage | 0.383 million[1] |
| NR 2005/6 usage | 0.444 million[1] |
| NR 2006/7 usage | 1.388 million[1] |
| NR 2007/8 usage | 1.111 million[1] |
| LUL 2006 usage | 5.838 million[2] |
| LUL 2007 usage | 6.433 million[2] |
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Opened (Midland) Opened (CCE&HR) |
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| List of stations | Underground · National Rail |
| External links | Departures • Facilities |
Kentish Town station is a London Underground (LU) and National Rail (NR)station in Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden. It is at the junction of Kentish Town Road (A400) and Leighton Road. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The station is served by the High Barnet branch of the LU Northern line, and by First Capital Connect Thameslink trains on the NR Midland Main Line. It is between Camden Town and Tufnell Park on the Northern line and between West Hampstead and St. Pancras International stations on the main line.
It is the only station on the High Barnet branch which has interchange with a National Rail line.
There are four NR surface platforms and two LU underground platforms. East Midlands Trains InterCity services from Leeds, Sheffield and Leicester pass through but do not stop.
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History
The National Rail station was opened by the Midland Railway (MR) in 1868 when it built its extension to its new London terminal at St. Pancras. Before that, MR trains had used the lines of the London and North Western Railway to Euston or of the Great Northern Railway to King's Cross. Until the St. Pancras extension was built, and for some time afterwards, some trains went to Moorgate Street with the locomotive exchanged at Kentish Town for one fitted with condensing apparatus. For some years daily trains ran from Kentish Town to Victoria station on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. The second largest motive power depot and repair facility on the MR was north of the station.[3] In 1861 a collision occurred at a siding near the station in which sixteen people were killed and 317 were injured.
From May 1878 to September 1880 the MR Super Outer Circle service ran through the station, from St. Pancras to Earl's Court Underground station via Cricklewood and South Acton.[4]
The main line station was rebuilt in 1983, nothing of the original station building remains.
The separate London Underground station was opened on 22 June 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR), a precursor of the Northern line.[5] The station was designed by Leslie Green with the ox-blood red glazed terracotta façade and the semi-circular windows at first floor level common to most of the original stations on the CCE&HR and its two associated railways, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway and Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Railway which opened the previous year. When Kentish Town station opened the next CCE&HR station south was South Kentish Town but that station closed in 1924 due to low usage.[6]
In popular culture
The 1980 TV Rumpole of the Bailey special, Rumpole's Return, used the Underground station for a scene with a fatal stabbing on the northbound platform.
Development
Other trains from south of the River Thames within the larger Thameslink network may call at the station from 2015, when it is likely that the existing Sutton Loop trains will terminate at London Blackfriars[7].
After the bay platforms at Blackfriars station closed in March 2009, Southeastern services which previously terminated at Blackfriars were extended to Kentish Town (off-peak), or St Albans, Luton or Bedford (peak hours).[8] Trains south of Blackfriars services are operated by Southeastern crews, north of Blackfriars by First Capital Connect crews.[9]
A major upgrading of the whole Thameslink line infrastructure is underway, for expected completion by 2015. However, the four platforms at Kentish Town station are not being extended from 8 to 12 carriages. The only other Thameslink stations north of the River Thames remaining with 8-car platform lengths will be Hendon and Cricklewood, which are sited either side of a possible new Thameslink station at Brent Cross.
Service patterns
| Preceding station |  London Underground |
Following station | ||
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towards Mill Hill East or High Barnet
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Northern line |
towards Morden or Kennington
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| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
| First Capital Connect
Sutton Loop
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Bedford-Sevenoaks
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| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Haverstock Hill | Midland Railway Midland Main Line |
Camden Road (Midland) | ||
| Tufnell Park | Northern Line Former Route |
South Kentish Town | ||
| Terminus | Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway | Highgate Road | ||
References
- ^ a b c d Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kentish Town station from Office of Rail Regulation statistics
- ^ a b Transport for London - London Underground performance update
- ^ Radford, B., (1983) Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby London: Bloomsbury Books
- ^ "Circle Line, History". Clive's Underground Line Guides. http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/circle.html#history. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
- ^ Connor, J.E. (1999). "South Kentish Town". London's Disused Underground Stations. Capital Transport. pp. 22. ISBN 185414-250-X.
- ^ "Thameslink Programme - FAQ". http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/faqs/faqs_categories/public_index#question_42. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
- ^ "Train times 22 March - 16 May 2009 Thameslink route". First Capital Connect. http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/content/doc/timetables/tttl_book_pdf_ontime_final_ver.pdf. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
- ^ "First photos of FCC 377s released" - Today's Railways, Issue 84, p67
External links
- Train times and station information for Kentish Town station from National Rail
- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive Station building in 1925.
Gallery
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kentish Town station |
 Thameslink (slow) platforms looking north, with the large Assembly House pub on Kentish Town Road behind |
 Thameslink (slow) platforms looking south |
 Signage on Thameslink slow northbound platform |
 Northern line northbound platform looking south |
 Northern line southbound platform looking north |
 Tiling on northbound Northern line platform |
 Roundel on northbound Northern line platform |
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