Moor Park tube station

Moor Park

Main entrance, on the northbound side
Moor Park Location of Moor Park in Hertfordshire
Location	Moor Park
Local authority	Three Rivers
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	6 and 7
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008	0.760 million[1]
2009	0.771 million[1]
2010	0.780 million[1]
1910	Opened
June 1938	Goods yard closed[2]
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
London Transport portal

Coordinates: 51°37′48″N 0°25′52″W / 51.63°N 0.431°W / 51.63; -0.431

Moor Park is a London Underground station in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire. The station is outside the Greater London boundary but is in both Zone 6 and Zone 7.

Moor Park station is located between Rickmansworth (towards Amersham), Croxley (towards Watford) and Northwood (towards central London) stations.

It lies between Sandy Lodge Golf Course and Moor Park. The station has four platforms, two for northbound trains (one for the Watford service and one for the Amersham service) and two for southbound trains to Baker Street (one for the slow trains and one for fast - although southbound services vary in the morning peak).

Despite sharing the fast lines with the Amersham/Chesham trains, British Rail (Chiltern) (now Chiltern Railways) trains to Aylesbury/Marylebone ceased calling here in 1993.

History

• 1 September 1887: Metropolitan Railway's extension opened from the previous terminus at Pinner, en route to Rickmansworth, passing through here
• 15 March 1899(?): Great Central Railway services began passing through here
• 9 May 1910: station opened as "Sandy Lodge"
• 18 October 1923: station re-named "Moor Park & Sandy Lodge"
• 2 November 1925: extension to Watford opened from both Moor Park & Sandy Lodge and Rickmansworth; extension of electric train services as far as Rickmansworth
• 25 September 1950: station re-named "Moor Park"
• 1959: Station rebuilt when tracks were quadrupled.
• 1993: suspension of Chiltern services

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Customer metrics: entries and exits". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. 2003-2010. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/performance/default.asp?onload=entryexit. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
2. ^ Hardy, Brian, ed (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (London Underground Railway Society) (591): 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617. 

External links

• www.railwayarchive.org.uk
  • Moor Park station platforms, 1944
  • Moor Park station entrance, 2001
• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive Moor Park station platforms, 1962.

Gallery

• 

  Northbound slow platform looking south

• 

  Northbound slow platform looking north

• 

  Northbound fast platform looking south

• 

  Southbound fast platform looking north

• 

  Southbound slow platform looking north

• 

  Roundel on platform

• 

  Rear entrance on the London-bound side, on the footpath to Sandy Lodge

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Croxley towards Watford		Metropolitan line		Northwood Slow service towards Baker Street or Aldgate
Rickmansworth towards Amersham or Chesham				Harrow-on-the-Hill Fast service towards Baker Street or Aldgate
	Historical railways
Rickmansworth towards Aylesbury		Chiltern Lines London to Aylesbury Line		Harrow-on-the-Hill towards Marylebone