Hornsey railway station

Hornsey
The southbound platform of the station and adjacent TMD.
Hornsey Location of Hornsey in Greater London
Location	Hornsey
Local authority	London Borough of Haringey
Managed by	Great Northern
Station code(s)	HRN
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	1.560 million[1]
2020–21	0.430 million[1]
2021–22	0.991 million[1]
2022–23	1.315 million[1]
2023–24	1.500 million[1]
Key dates
1850	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°35′10″N 0°06′42″W / 51.5862°N 0.1116°W / 51.5862; -0.1116
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Hornsey railway station is in Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey, north London. It is on the Great Northern route that forms part of the East Coast Main Line, 4 miles 4 chains (6.5 km) down the line from London King's Cross, and is situated between Harringay to the south and Alexandra Palace to the north.^[2]

It is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station is managed by Great Northern on behalf of Network Rail, and is adjacent to the Hornsey train maintenance depot. It was built in 1850 on the Great Northern Railway.

The station was opened on 7 August 1850 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR),^[3] the same day that the main line between Peterborough and London (Maiden Lane) was opened.^[4] It was the first station on the line after King's Cross. Later in the century, maintenance sidings were established on both the up and down sides.

Under plans approved in 1897, the station was to be served by the Great Northern and Strand Railway (GN&SR), a tube railway supported by the GNR which would have run underground beneath the GNR's tracks from Alexandra Palace to Finsbury Park and then into central London. The GN&SR stations on each side would have been the same as the main line stations. The GN&SR route and stations north of Finsbury Park were cancelled in 1902 when the GN&SR was taken over by Charles Yerkes' consortium which planned to merge it with the Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway to form the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway from Finsbury Park to Hammersmith (now part of the London Underground's Piccadilly line).^[5]

All services at Hornsey are operated by Great Northern using Class 717 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[6]

• 4 tph to Moorgate
• 2 tph to Stevenage via Hertford North
• 2 tph to Welwyn Garden City

During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly service between Moorgate and Hertford North, and the service between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City is increased to 4 tph. The station is also served by a small number of peak hour services between Moorgate and Gordon Hill.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Harringay		Great Northern Great Northern Route Stopping Services		Alexandra Palace
	Abandoned Plans
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Harringay towards Strand		Great Northern & Strand		Alexandra Palace Terminus

• Turnpike Lane London Underground station is a 15-minute walk away.

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  London Buses route 41 and night routes N41 and N91 serve the station.
• A change to an adjacent platform at Finsbury Park station two stops away from Hornsey on the railway gives direct access on the overground lines to and from central London, south London, Gatwick and Brighton.

• The Metamorphosis of Hornsey Station on Harringay Online

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hornsey railway station.

• Train times and station information for Hornsey railway station from National Rail