Gospel Oak railway station

Gospel Oak railway station is in the 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. 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 kilometre south on the same line (that station is now Kentish Town West). Due to financial constraints the planned connection from the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway to...