Hackney Downs railway station
Hackney Downs  
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Hackney Downs railway station in 2008
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 Hackney Downs
Location of Hackney Downs in Greater London
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| Location | Hackney Downs |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hackney |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | HAC |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| OSI | Hackney Central |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 1.781 million |
| 2012–13 |
1.809 million |
| 2013–14 |
2.035 million |
| – interchange | 0.926 million |
| 2014–15 |
2.164 million |
| – interchange |
 0.897 million |
| 2015–16 |
2.267 million |
| – interchange |
1.726 million |
| Other information | |
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| WGS84 | 51°32′54″N 0°03′36″W / 51.5483°N 0.0601°WCoordinates: 51°32′54″N 0°03′36″W / 51.5483°N 0.0601°W |
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Hackney Downs is a London Overground and National Rail main line station on the Lea Valley Lines forming part of the West Anglia Main Line, serving the Hackney Central area of the London Borough of Hackney, east London. It is 2 miles 78 chains (4.8 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street.
On the London Overground network the station is situated between London Fields and either Clapton (for the Chingford branch) or Rectory Road (for the Cheshunt/Enfield Town branch). Main line trains, operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, call at Hackney Downs between Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale. Its three-letter station code is HAC and it is in Travelcard zone 2.
The station was originally named Hackney Downs Junction until 1896. Today, it has a direct passenger link to Hackney Central station, providing interchange with the North London Line of the Overground network.
The station was opened on 27 May 1872 when the Great Eastern Railway opened the first part of its new line to Enfield Town to Stoke Newington. This was an exercise to provide new routes to the expanding suburbs of north-east London and to give a faster journey time to Enfield whose trains at that time were routed via Stratford and Angel Road. Just under a month later, another line opened linking Hackney Downs to Coppermill Junction just south of Tottenham Hale on what was then the main line to Cambridge. This new route offered a reduction in journey time for Cambridge and Shern Street station in Walthamstow on the Chingford line services but also relieved congestion at Stratford railway station.
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