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Bowes Park
	; Bowes Park station entrance
Location	Bowes Park
Local authority	London Borough of Haringey
Managed by	First Capital Connect
Station code	BOP
Platforms in use	2
Fare zone	3 and 4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004/5	0.174 million
2005/6	0.214 million
2006/7	0.314 million
2007/8	0.527 million
1880	Opened
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
External links	Departures • Layout
	Facilities • Buses
	London Transport Portal; UK Railways Portal

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.

Bowes Park is the only station on the entire Hertford Loop with an island platform.

In Autumn 2008, a new SHERE self-service ticket machine, accepting both cash and credit cards, was installed here (and similarly at other local FCC stations).

To the north of the station is a single siding in between the two running tracks which is occasionally used to turn around National Express East Coast InterCity 225 and 125 trains heading for Bounds Green Depot just north of Alexandra Palace. 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.

[edit] Services

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.

If there tend to be rail works on the fast line via New Southgate, National Express East Coast and First Capital Connect express services directly to Cambridge are diverted via the Hertford Loop.

[edit] Future developments

Oyster pay and go will arrive at this station on the confirmed date of 2 January 2010, this will finally allow customers to make use of the oyster machines at the station but are not currently in use.^[2]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bowes Park railway station from Office of Rail Regulation statistics
^ Oyster Card and National Rail, National Rail Enquiries Website

[edit] External links

Train times and station information for Bowes Park railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 51°36′28″N 0°07′15″W / 51.6078°N 0.1209°W / 51.6078; -0.1209

[edit] Gallery

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Staircase leading down to platforms via the ticket office between them	Looking south from southbound platform face	Looking north from northbound platform face	Island platform looking south
Platform signage in the old WAGN colours	Northwards view of the platforms from Bounds Green Road