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Camden Road
Camden Road Location of Camden Road in Greater London
Location	Camden Town
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	CMD
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	2
OSI	Camden Town [2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2013–14	4.736 million[3]
– interchange	13,433[3]
2014–15	4.953 million[3]
– interchange	14,861[3]
2015–16	5.121 million[3]
– interchange	9,301[3]
2016–17	5.258 million[3]
– interchange	52,156[3]
2017–18	5.016 million[3]
– interchange	52,351[3]
Key dates
7 December 1850	first station opened
5 December 1870	resited
25 September 1950	Renamed (Camden Road)
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°32′30″N 0°08′20″W / 51.5418°N 0.1388°W / 51.5418; -0.1388Coordinates: 51°32′30″N 0°08′20″W / 51.5418°N 0.1388°W / 51.5418; -0.1388
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Camden Road railway station in the London Borough of Camden, north London, is operated by London Overground. It is on the North London Line and in Travelcard Zone 2.

The first Camden Road station was opened by the North London Railway in 1850 on the east side of what is now St. Pancras Way. It was renamed Camden Town on 1 July 1870, but closed on 5 December 1870 when it was replaced by the current station, a short distance to the west.^[4]

The station is at the corner of Royal College Street and Camden Road. Designed by Edwin Henry Horne, it opened as Camden Town by the North London Railway on 5 December 1870, but was renamed Camden Road on 25 September 1950 to avoid confusion with the London Underground Northern line Camden Town which had opened in 1907. Thus, between 1907 and 1950, there were two stations called Camden Town. It remains Horne's only station still operating as such. ^[5]

The present Camden Town London Underground station is 450 metres to the southwest of this station.^[6][7] It is one of the few railway stations in England in which there is a police station.

In addition to the frequent local passenger service, the station is a busy location for freight traffic due to its proximity to the junctions linking the North London Line to both the West Coast Main Line at Camden Junction (via the now closed station at Primrose Hill) and the East Coast Main Line at Copenhagen Junction. The former is particularly well used by container trains from the deep water ports at Felixstowe and Tilbury to various terminals in the Midlands and North West of England; it also carried a passenger service (between Watford Junction and Broad Street/Liverpool Street) until 1992.

Services

To allow four-car trains to run on the London Overground network, the North London Line between Gospel Oak and Stratford closed in February 2010, and reopened on 1 June 2010, in order to install a new signalling system and to extend 30 platforms. After the reopening the work continued until May 2011 with a reduced service and none on Sundays.^[8]

The typical weekday service in trains per hour is:

• 4 westbound to Richmond via Willesden Junction.


• 2 westbound to Clapham Junction also via Willesden Junction (no late evening service)


• 6 eastbound to Stratford via Highbury & Islington.^[9] Some early morning and late night trains start or terminate here.

There is now no normal passenger service on the line from Camden Road to Willesden Junction Low Level via Queens Park, though the route can be (and is) used if the line via Hampstead Heath is blocked for any reason.

Connections

London Buses routes 29, 46, 253 and 274 and night routes N29, N253 and N279 serve the station.

There is also an official out of station interchange with Northern Line services at the nearby Camden Town underground station.

Camden Highline

In the future there may be a walking connection to and from King's Cross. The Camden Highline is a proposed public park and garden walk transforming a disused section of the North London Line between the two stations.^[10]

A community group of the same name is proposing to bring back the 0.75-mile-long (1.21km) railway into public use as an elevated linear park and greenway.

The project was envisioned by a geographer, Oliver O'Brien,^[11] and promoted by Camden Town Unlimited. In the summer of 2017 a crowdfunding campaign raised £64k using the Spacehive platform and received 314 donations including the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan who said: "This innovative project has the potential to become a real asset for Camden and is a great example of a local community taking an idea and garnering support in order to make it a reality. I look forward to seeing it develop."^[12][13]

The project is currently fundraising the construction costs.^[14]

References

External links

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  Train times and station information for Camden Road railway station from National Rail
  

Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
Kentish Town West towards Richmond or Clapham Junction		North London Line		Caledonian Road & Barnsbury towards Stratford
	Former Service
	National Rail
West Hampstead towards Basingstoke		Anglia Railways London Crosslink		Highbury & Islington towards Norwich
	Disused railways
Kentish Town West		North London-Watford Link (LNWR suburban system)		Maiden Lane
Primrose Hill				Caledonian Road & Barnsbury