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Oakleigh Park railway station is in Oakleigh Park in the London Borough of Barnet in north London, England. It is north of Moorgate on the East Coast Main Line between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. Oakleigh Park is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station is managed and served by Great Northern. Oyster pay as you go can now be used to and from this station as well as on the majority of National Rail services in Greater London. Customers should touch in and touch out at the validators provided to ensure they are charged the correct fare. == History == In 1866 the Whetstone Park Company, promoters of the ''Whetstone Park Estate'', reached an agreement with the Great Northern Railway (GNR) to construct a new station to serve the development. The station - to be known as Whetstone - would open once 25 houses were complete, although the GNR built the two station platforms immediately (they were completed by June 1866). Contact between the developer and the GNR took place in January 1869, then again in summer 1871 by which time the development had been renamed to the ''Oakleigh Park Estate'', but it wasn't until January 1873 that the developer was able to inform the GNR that the 25th house was complete. Accordingly, the GNR authorised the station to be completed, now to be known as Oakleigh Park. It opened to passenger traffic on 1 December 1873. The estate office was situated in Chandos Avenue; a contemporaneous sign advertising "Oakleigh Park on main line. Detached residences - gravel soil - open country - large plots - moderate prices" is displayed in the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. As part of works to increase the number of tracks from two to four, the station was completely rebuilt in 1891/2 with two island platforms, a new footbridge and booking office. The 1873 station footbridge at the extreme north end of the station was retained as a public footpath, but with the stairs to the station removed. The station remained largely unchanged until around 1975, when alterations were made in readiness for electrification. By the 1930s the station had gained the suffix For East Barnet, which remained until at least the 1970s.〔London Railway Record, number 62 - January 2010, Connor & Butler, ISSN 1335-8013〕 The first holes were bored near the station for the overhead powerline in order to electrify the East Coast Main Line.〔''The Flying Scotsman'', DVD, Video 125, UK, copyright 1999/2000〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oakleigh Park railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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