Haggerston
Station building a day after opening in April 2010
Haggerston Location of Haggerston in Greater London
Location	Haggerston
Local authority	London Borough of Hackney
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Transport for London
Station code	HGG
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
National Rail annual entry and exit
2020–21	0.896 million[1]
2021–22	2.143 million[1]
2022–23	3.157 million[1]
2023–24	3.680 million[1]
2024–25	3.651 million[1]
Railway companies
Original company	North London Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
2 September 1867	Opened
6 May 1940	Closed. After closure, station building bomb damaged 7 October 1940.
27 April 2010	Rebuilt and Reopened[2]
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°32′19″N0°04′31″W / 51.5386°N 0.0754°W /51.5386; -0.0754
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Haggerston is a station on theWindrush line of theLondon Overground, located inHaggerston,East London. It lies betweenHoxton andDalston Junction stations, is inLondon fare zone 2, and is open 24 hours on a Friday and Saturday as part of theLondon Overground Night Service. The station was rebuilt as part of theEast London line extension in the late 2000s.

The station is located on theKingsland Viaduct at the junction of Arbutus Street and Frederick Terrace, nearKingsland Road. The main entrance is in Lee Street.^[3]

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When the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway (known as theNorth London Railway (NLR) from 1853) started operating on 26 September 1850, they shared a London terminus atFenchurch Street railway station with the London and Blackwall Railway which involved a circuitous route viaHackney,Bow andEast Stepney for city bound passengers. An act of parliament saw the NLR apply to build a two-mile extension from Dalston to a new London terminus atBroad Street railway station. This was passed in 1861.

The original railway had three tracks and the station had three platform faces. It was situated on a viaduct and was a flat roofed square two storey station building located on Lee Street. Connor suggests the ticket office was at street level and stairs took you up to platform level which were accommodated within the building. The station, which was originally going to be named De-Beauvoir Town was opened on 2 September 1867.^[4] It is not known at this juncture whether there were offices or platform level passenger facilities on the top floor of the building. The island platform was accessed by a subway and steps.^[5]

A fourth track which did not have a platform face was added in 1872 and used by goods trains to and from Broad Street goods depots.^[6]

The signal box was located north of the station between the two sets of running lines.

TheLondon & North Western Railway (LNWR) took over the working of the North London Railway under a common management arrangement on 1 February 1909 although the North London Railway continued to exist until 1922.^[7]

In 1916 the two westerly lines were electrified for Broad Street to Richmond services and the two sets of running lines were known as No. 2 Electrics (west side of viaduct) and No 1 Steam (east side of the viaduct). The electric services did not call at Haggerston as there was no fourth platform provided.^[8]

It was initially served by local services fromBroad Street toPoplar (East India Road) on theCity Extension of theNorth London Railway. Later Great Northern Railway services to New Barnet, Alexandra Palace, High Barnet and Gordon Hill called during the peak hours. Between 1870 and 1890 some Poplar trains were extended to/fromBlackwall.

Following theRailways Act 1921, also known as the grouping act, operation of the station fell under the control of theLondon Midland & Scottish Railway.

Sunday services to Poplar were withdrawn on 29 January 1940.^[9] Following that, services were withdrawn on 6 May 1940 as an economy measure duringWorld War II and the following October the station building was badly damaged by enemy bombs.^[6] The signal box was damaged by a further raid in April 1941 and was not replaced.

The Poplar service continued to pass through Haggerston but this was withdrawn on 15 May 1944 due to bomb damage between Dalston and Poplar and declining passenger numbers.^[5]

The station building was demolished in December 1946.

The "Steam" lines (also known as No 1 lines) were lifted sometime during the 1970s and traffic declined at Broad Street until that station was closed on 30 June 1986 with the former No 2 electric lines being lifted soon after.^[10] After that the trackbed through the station remained overgrown and unused.

TheEast London line extension saw proposals to extend theEast London line (then New Cross/New Cross Gate - Shoreditch) to Dalston and a connection with theNorth London line. This scheme involved using the old Broad Street lines and a new station was proposed at Haggerston north of the original site.

The new station was designed by Acanthus LW Architects.^[3] The design features towers that serve to strengthen the station's urban presence and recall the language of London's stations of the 1930s designed byCharles Holden. The building is clad externally inprecast concrete with screens of cast glass planks. Internally, the building features orange mosaic tiling and a large mural toEdmond Halley, who was born in the area.

The station was opened to the general public on 27 April 2010 with a limited service running between Dalston Junction andNew Cross orNew Cross Gate. On 23 May 2010 services were extended from New Cross Gate toWest Croydon orCrystal Palace, whilst through trains toClapham Junction began operating at the December 2012 timetable change.

The former up platform remains (as of 2024) but the original island platform was removed during construction.

Services are provided on theWindrush line of theLondon Overground. As of December 2012^[update] the off-peak service is:^[11]

• 4 trains per hour (tph) toNew Cross viaSurrey Quays
• 4 tph toClapham Junction via Surrey Quays
• 4 tph toCrystal Palace via Surrey Quays
• 4 tph toWest Croydon via Surrey Quays
• 16 tph toDalston Junction, of which 8 tph continue toHighbury & Islington

London Buses routes149,242,243 and night routeN242 serve the station.^[12]

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Dalston Junction towardsDalston Junction orHighbury & Islington		Windrush line East London line		Hoxton towardsClapham Junction,Crystal Palace,New Cross orWest Croydon
Historical railways
Dalston Junction Line and station open		London and North Western Railway North London Railway		Shoreditch Line open, station closed

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