Moor Park tube station
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| Location | |
| Place | Moor Park |
| Local authority | Three Rivers |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 4 |
| Annual entry/exit | 0.595 million |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 6 and A |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1910 |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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Moor Park is a London Underground station in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire.
It is at the junction of the Amersham and Watford branches of London Underground's Metropolitan Line.
Moor Park station is located between Rickmansworth (towards Amersham), Croxley (towards Watford) and Northwood (towards central London) stations.
The station is outside the Greater London boundary and for the purposes of fare charging is in both Zone 6 and Zone A. It lies between Sandy Lodge Golf Course and Moor Park. The station has four platforms, two for northbound trains (one for the Watford service and one for the Amersham service) and two for southbound trains to Baker Street (one for the slow trains and one for fast - although southbound services vary in the morning peak). Despite sharing the track with the Amersham branch, therefore running on the platform, Chiltern Railways trains discontinued in the late 1990s/early 2000s stopping here. Instead, they stop at the next station on the Amersham branch, Rickmansworth.
[edit] Chronology
- 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: station opened as "Sandy Lodge"
- 18 October 1923: station re-named "Moor Park & 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
- 25 September 1950: station re-named "Moor Park"
- 1959: Station rebuilt when tracks were quadrupled.
- 1990s (?): suspension of Chiltern services
[edit] External links
- www.railwayarchive.org.uk
- London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive Moor Park station platforms, 1962.
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toward Watford
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Metropolitan Line |
toward Aldgate
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toward Amersham or Chalfont & Latimer
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