| Cockfosters | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Cockfosters |
| Local authority | London Borough of Enfield |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 4 (3 tracks) |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 5 |
| 2004 annual usage | 1. Cockfosters is a suburb of North London, lying partly in the London Borough of Enfield and partly in the London Borough of Barnet. The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire Travelcard Zone 5 is the fifth outward zone of the Transport for London zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London 549 million † |
| 2007 annual usage | 1. 633 million † |
| History | |
| 1933 | Opened (Piccadilly Line) |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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| † Data from Transport for London [1] | |
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Cockfosters is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly Line for which it is the northern terminus. Transport for London ( TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the Transport system in Greater London in England. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This is a list of London Underground stations. Scope This list by their present names of Heavy rail passenger stations in the Greater London region excludes stations served only by the London Underground The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire The Piccadilly line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark Blue on the Tube map. The station is located on Cockfosters Road (A111) approximately 9 miles from central London and serves Cockfosters in the London Borough of Barnet although it is actually located a short distance across the borough boundary in the neighbouring London Borough of Enfield. The A111 is an A road in London, England. It runs from Palmers Green to Potters Bar. A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Cockfosters is a suburb of North London, lying partly in the London Borough of Enfield and partly in the London Borough of Barnet. The London Borough of Barnet ( is a London borough in North London and forms part of Outer London. The station is in Travelcard Zone 5 and the next station south-east is Oakwood. Travelcard Zone 5 is the fifth outward zone of the Transport for London zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London Oakwood is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly Line.
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History
The station opened on 31 July 1933, the last of the stations on the extension of the line from Finsbury Park to do so and four months after Oakwood station opened. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Piccadilly Line Cockfosters extension added eight new stations to the northern end of London Underground 's Piccadilly Line. Finsbury Park Station is a busy transport interchange in North London. Prior to its opening, "Trent Park" and "Cock Fosters" (an early spelling of the area's name) were suggested as alternative station names. The original site hoarding displayed the name as a single word.
The station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete. Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 - 1 May 1960 was an English architect best known for his designs of some of the 1920s and 1930s stations on the London Underground railway Reinforced concrete is Concrete in which reinforcement bars (" Rebars quot or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be Compared with the other new stations Holden designed for the extension, Cockfosters' street buildings are modest in scale, lacking the mass of Oakwood or Arnos Grove or the avant-garde flourish of Southgate. Arnos Grove is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly line between Bounds Green and Southgate. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard Southgate is a London Underground Piccadilly Line station in Southgate. The most striking feature of the station is the tall concrete and glass trainshed roof and platform canopies which are supported by portal frames of narrow blade-like concrete columns and beams rising from the platforms and spanning across the tracks. Portal frame construction is a method of building and designing simple structures primarily using Steel or steel-reinforced precast Concrete although they can also A column in Structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural The trainshed roof constructed at Uxbridge in the 1937-38 was built to a similar design. Uxbridge is a London Underground station in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, north-west London. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cockfosters station is a Grade II listed building. A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance
The station has three tracks with platforms number 1 to 4; the centre track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3. Most northbound Piccadilly trains terminate here although some terminate at Oakwood or Arnos Grove, particularly in peak hours or in the evenings. Oakwood is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly Line. Arnos Grove is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly line between Bounds Green and Southgate. Cockfosters depot is located between Oakwood and Cockfosters and trains can access or leave it from either direction.
2006/7 Refurbishment
In late 2006, Cockfosters Station began an intensive refurbishment programme to bring it up to standards with all other stations on the Tube network, as part of the Tube's £10billion upgrade scheme. The aim was to modernise the area, but still maintain the charm of the old building.
The plans include:
- Resurfacing the staircase on the East and West entrances to make them more user-friendly for those with sight problems.
- Painting of the original wooden seating areas on the East side entrance as well as minor restoration.
- Fitting of "Emergency Signal" notices on either side of the station to alert passengers of closed entrances.
- Installation of electronic platform train schedule systems, which inform passengers of immediate tube departures in addition to the destination. This aims to reduce confusion as to which of the three tube platforms' trains will be leaving first, and when.
- Installation of full CCTV operation both above and below the station grounds to improve security.
- Installation of London Underground Passenger Information systems, both above and below ground
The above improvements are currently being made to the station as well as a number of more minor additions to improve the building and bring it up to modern-day usage standards.
The improvements are expected to be completed by May 2007.
Places Nearby
- Trent Park
- East Barnet
- Enfield Chase
- Cat Hill Campus Middlesex University
- The "London LOOP" walk uses the station's foot tunnel to cross Cockfosters Road. Trent Park is a Country park, formerly the grounds of a mansion house which currently forms the Trent Park campus of Middlesex University in the north of London East Barnet is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a largely residential north London Suburb with a variety of shops public houses restaurants Enfield Chase is an area of the London Borough of Enfield, was once covered by woodland and used as a royal Deer park Middlesex University is a University in north London, England, located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex (from which The London Outer Orbital Path &mdash more usually the "London LOOP" &mdash is a 240 km (150 mile signed walk along public footpaths and through parks
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 Inside Cockfosters station |
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 Interior of Cockfosters station |
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