Hackney Central railway station
Hackney Central 
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 Hackney Central
Location of Hackney Central in Greater London
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| Location | Hackney Central |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hackney |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | HKC |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 2 |
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Hackney Downs  |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 3.360 million |
| 2012–13 |
4.481 million |
| 2013–14 |
5.311 million |
| 2014–15 |
5.708 million |
| 2015–16 |
5.979 million |
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| 1850 | Opened as Hackney |
| 1870 | Relocated west |
| 1944 | Closed |
| 1980 | Reopened as Hackney Central |
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| WGS84 | 51°32′49″N 0°03′21″W / 51.547°N 0.0559°WCoordinates: 51°32′49″N 0°03′21″W / 51.547°N 0.0559°W |
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Hackney Central is a station on the North London Line in Hackney Central within the London Borough of Hackney, Greater London. It is between Dalston Kingsland (to the west) and Homerton (to the east), in Travelcard Zone 2. The station and all trains serving it are operated by National Rail London Overground services under the control of the London Rail division of Transport for London, however there is no standard red National Rail "double arrow" logo signage located at the station, instead only the Overground roundel.
The station is connected to Hackney Downs with a direct passenger walkway linking the two stations (replacing an earlier such link) that was opened in July 2015. This walkway means passengers do not have to exit on to the street in order to continue their onward journey.
The North London Railway opened a station named Hackney on 26 September 1850, to the east of Mare Street. It closed on 1 December 1870 and was replaced the same day by a station to the west of Mare Street,designed by Edwin Henry Horne and also named Hackney. This station passed in due course to the London and North Western Railway and later on to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which closed the entire North London Line east of Dalston Junction to passenger traffic in 1944.
On 12 May 1980 the station was reopened by British Rail, this time named Hackney Central, a little to the west of the 1870 station. The 1870 station building designed by Edwin Henry Horne is no longer in use by the railway, but is one of only two examples of North London Railway architecture still in situ, the other being Camden Road station, which is still open. Access to the modern Hackney Central station is from an alleyway adjacent to the 1870 building on Mare Street, as well as a more direct access from Amherst Road.
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