Gospel Oak railway station
Gospel Oak 
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 Gospel Oak
Location of Gospel Oak in Greater London
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| Location | Gospel Oak |
| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | GPO |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 2.198 million |
| 2012–13 |
2.755 million |
| 2013–14 |
3.498 million |
| – interchange | 1.648 million |
| 2014–15 |
3.569 million |
| – interchange |
1.721 million |
| 2015–16 |
 2.629 million |
| – interchange |
1.826 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1860 | Opened |
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| WGS84 | 51°33′19″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5552°N 0.1514°WCoordinates: 51°33′19″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5552°N 0.1514°W |
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Gospel Oak railway station is in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It is on the North London Line (NLL) and is also the western passenger terminus of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line. Passengers using Oyster cards are required to tap on interchange Oyster card readers when changing between the two lines. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2, and is managed by London Overground which runs all passenger trains at the station.
The station opened in 1860 as Kentish Town on the Hampstead Junction Railway from Camden Road to Old Oak Common Junction south of Willesden Junction. It was renamed Gospel Oak in 1867 when a new station more appropriately named Kentish Town was opened about a mile south on the same line (that station is now Kentish Town West). Due to financial constraints a planned connection from the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway to Gospel Oak station was not added until 4 June 1888, some 20 years after that railway opened, and then without a link to the North London Line due to other companies' opposition.
From 1926 to 1981, the station was not a passenger interchange: passenger trains left the Barking line at Tufnell Park and descended the gradient to Kentish Town station. In 1981 that passenger service from Barking was diverted from Kentish Town to Gospel Oak with the terminal platform rebuilt on the north side of the existing station.
The North London Line through Gospel Oak was electrified on the fourth-rail 660 volt DC system in 1916 by the LNWR: in the 1970s that was changed to 750 volt DC third rail. In 1996, the line from Willesden through Gospel Oak to Camden was closed during conversion to 25kv AC overhead.
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