Moor Park tube station

Moor Park
Main entrance, on the northbound side
Moor Park Location of Moor Park in Hertfordshire
Location	Moor Park
Local authority	District of Three Rivers
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	6 and 7
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	0.82 million[1]
2012	0.81 million[1]
2013	0.82 million[1]
2014	0.89 million[1]
Key dates
1 September 1887	Metropolitan Railway's extension opened from the previous terminus at Pinner, en route to Rickmansworth, passing through here
15 March 1899	Great Central Railway services began passing through here
9 May 1910	Opened as "Sandy Lodge"
18 October 1923	Renamed "Moor Park and Sandy Lodge"
2 November 1925	Extension to Watford opened from both Moor Park & Sandy Lodge and Rickmansworth; extension of electric train services as far as Rickmansworth
June 1938	Goods yard closed[2]
25 September 1950	Renamed "Moor Park"
1959	Station rebuilt, given quadruple track
1993	Suspension of Chiltern services
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°37′48″N 0°25′52″W / 51.63°N 0.431°W

Moor Park is a London Underground station in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, predominantly serving those living in the Moor Park estate, but also in the neighbouring Eastbury and South Oxhey estates. The station is outside the Greater London boundary but is in both Zone 6 and Zone 7.

Moor Park station is located between Rickmansworth (towards Amersham or Chesham), Croxley (towards Watford) and Northwood (towards central London) stations.

It lies between Sandy Lodge Golf Course and Moor Park. The station has four platforms, two for northbound trains (one for the slow/semi-fast trains and one for the fast trains) and two for southbound trains to Baker Street (one for the slow/semi-fast trains and one for fast).

Since 2011, fast and semi-fast trains have only run during peak times, with services to Aldgate from platform 2 during the morning peak, and services to Amersham and Chesham from platform 1 during the evening peak.

At all other times, and all day at weekends, trains depart from platforms 3 and 4, providing all stations services to Baker Street or Aldgate to the south and to Watford, Amersham or Chesham in the northbound direction.

Despite sharing the fast lines with the Amersham/Chesham trains, British Rail (Chiltern) (now Chiltern Railways) trains to Aylesbury/Marylebone ceased calling here in 1993.

References

1. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
2. Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (London Underground Railway Society) (591): 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.

Gallery

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  Northbound fast platform looking south (platform 1)

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  Southbound fast platform looking north (platform 2)

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  Northbound slow (all stations) platform looking south (platform 3)

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  Southbound slow (all stations) platform looking north (platform 4)

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  Station platform Roundel

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  Rear entrance on the London-bound side, on the footpath to Sandy Lodge

External links

• www.railwayarchive.org.uk
  • Moor Park station platforms, 1944
  • Moor Park station entrance, 2001
• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive Moor Park station platforms, 1962.