Bowes Park railway station

Infobox London station
name = Bowes Park


caption= Southern end of footbridge leading to station entrance
manager = First Capital Connect
zone = 3 and 4
locale = Bowes Park
borough = London Borough of Haringey
start=1880
platforms=2
railexits0405=0.174
railexits0506=0.214
railcode = BOP
railexits0607=0.314

Bowes Park railway station is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 3 and Travelcard Zone 4. The station and all trains serving it are operated by First Capital Connect, on the Hertford Loop Line. It was first opened by the GNR in 1880, some nine years after the Loop Line itself was completed.

The station is a short walk from Bounds Green tube station on the Piccadilly Line. It has an unusual location in that it is situated between two quiet residential cul-de-sacs and is accessed from a footbridge over the railway line which divides those streets.

To the north of the station is a single siding in between the running tracks which is occasionally used to turn around GNER InterCity 225 trains heading for Bounds Green Depot. A connection to the now disused GER Palace Gates Line whose terminus, Palace Gates (Wood Green), lay just to the south, was made in 1929.

ervices

The service from the station runs to Moorgate on weekdays until about 10.00pm, and into London King's Cross after 10.00pm Mondays to Fridays and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. On weekdays the service uses class 313 EMUs, as these are the only units cleared to Moorgate, at weekends class 317 EMUs are used instead.

The typical off-peak service is 3 trains per hour to Moorgate, and 3 trains per hour to Hertford North, with one per hour extended to Letchworth Garden City via Stevenage.

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