Finsbury Park station

Finsbury Park is a busy transport interchange in North London. The interchange, that consists of an interconnected National Rail and London Underground station and two bus stations, are by the eastern bus station on Station Place. The Great Northern ticket office here lies in between one entrance marked by the Underground roundel symbol, while the other marked by the National Rail symbol, and provides direct access to the main line platforms. There is another exit by the western bus station along the Wells Terrace, incorporating the Underground ticket office, plus a narrow side entrance to the south on the A503 Seven Sisters Road. The complex is in Travelcard Zone 1. Current services National Rail The above-ground National Rail station, which has a separate ticket office to the Underground station, is managed and served by First Capital Connect. Trains from Moorgate and King's Cross form inner suburban services to Welwyn Garden City and Hertford North and outer suburban services all start from Kings Cross towards Peterborough and Cambridge. Inner suburban service do not serve the Moorgate branch during late evenings and at weekends, being diverted to King's Cross station instead. There are six platforms, but only five tracks, given that platforms 4 and 5 share a track although Platform 1 is used by London Moorgate services heading into London, platform 6 by Moorgate services heading northbound. Platforms 2 (southbound) and 3 (northbound) by Kings Cross services, usually fast but sometimes stopping. Platforms 4/5 by stopping northbound trains from Kings Cross. London Underground The station is served by the Piccadilly and Victoria lines. Although thought of as a 'deep-level' tube station, Finsbury Park has neither lifts nor escalators as its lines are less than 20' (6.1 m) below street level, though there used to be lifts from the high-level platforms to the tube level. These were the last hydraulically operated lifts on LT. The access to the Piccadilly and Victoria line platforms is by staircase only, reached via two narrow passages that physically prevent the installation of automatic ticket barriers - remarkable, considering its Zone 2 location. Manual ticket inspections do, however, regularly take place. Oystercard readers are available for "pay as you go" customers. Related pages Graham Bond musician (died at the station). References Other websites London Transport Museum Photographic Archive Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Seven Sisters Road entrance to underground station, 1909 Wells Terrace entrance, 1925 Ticket office, 1934, when the Northern City Line was still operated by the Metropolitan Line LNER Station, 1935