Everything about Alexandra Palace Railway Station totally explained
Alexandra Palace railway station is in the
London Borough of Haringey in north
London, and is in
Travelcard Zone 3. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by
First Capital Connect.
It is the only surviving station of three that have served
Alexandra Palace.
Alexandra Palace, sited actually at the palace, was on the Highgate - Alexandra Palace line, and
Palace Gates (Wood Green) was on a line from
Seven Sisters station via Wood Green. This station's name (originally Wood Green) was changed to Alexandra Palace though it has been through other variants including "Wood Green (Alexandra Palace)".
Just outside the station to the north is
Bounds Green Depot, used for storage and maintenance of the high speed trains used on the
East Coast Main Line. A line adjacent to the station platforms is used by
shunters moving carriages and engines around in the depot.
Station layout
The station has old buildings on Buckingham Road, with a modern footbridge connection to the platforms and across the tracks to Bedford Road. On the platforms there are only rudimentary modern buildings but during
2004 a station refreshment kiosk opened at Alexandra Palace.
Platform 1 is on the up slow line to London (served from either the Welwyn or Hertford directions), platform 2 is the up fast line, with few scheduled departures. The down fast is a through road, without a platform face. Platform 3 is used by northbound trains on the ECML slow line and trains on the
Hertford Loop Line use platform 4. Note that trains to/from Hertford must use the outer platform lines.
Services
Services from the station run to
Moorgate on weekdays until about 10.00pm, and into
London Kings Cross after 10.00pm Mondays to Fridays and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. Normally the service uses
class 313 EMUs, as these are the only units cleared to Moorgate, although on weekends sometimes
class 317 EMUs are used instead. Early mornings and late nights see a couple of four car (class 317 or
class 365) trains scheduled to call (to/from
Cambridge or
Peterborough).
North of the station, the line divides, with half the trains running to
Welwyn Garden City and the other half running to
Hertford North or
Letchworth Garden City. The typical Monday to Friday off-peak service frequency is:
On Saturdays and Sundays (when there's no engineering work) this drops to:
4tph (trains per hour) to Kings Cross
2tph to Welwyn Garden City, via Potters Bar
2tph to Hertford North, with 1tph extended to Stevenage
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