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Essex Road (EXR)

Essex Road station, 181 Essex Road, Islington, Greater London, N1 2SU

Live trains

Radio buttons live-trains-finder-type

Ticket Office

Opening Hours
  • Opening Hours,Monday to Friday: 06:30 - 22:00
  • Opening Hours,Saturday: 06:30 - 22:00
  • Opening Hours,Sunday: 06:30 - 22:00
London Fare Zone

Zone 2

Ticket Machines

No

Collect tickets bought online
  • Collect tickets at Ticket Office
Accessible ticket machines

Available

All Great Northern ticket machines are able to sell tickets with Disabled Persons Railcard discounts.

Ticket machines are of an accessible design, however their location and the station itself may not be. Please check the station map or the 'step free access' section before making your way to the station.

Induction loop

Yes

Oyster Pay as you go Information

Purchase Oyster card here

Yes

Load Oyster Pay as you go here
  • Load Oyster card at Ticket Office
Use Oyster Pay as you go here

Yes

Pay as you go note

Oyster top-up is not available at this station. Pre-loaded Oyster Cards can be purchased at the ticket office.

Smartcards

Smartcards issued at this station

Yes

Smartcard tickets
  • No
Smartcard validators

Yes

Smartcard note

For more information on using the Key smartcard, please visit the Key smartcard webpage on the Great Northern website.

Information Available

  • Yes - from help point

Customer Information

  • Departure Screens
  • Live service information
  • Arrival Screens

Information Services Opening Times

  • Information Services Opening Times,Monday to Sunday: Available

Staff Help Available

  • Staff Help Available,Monday to Sunday: Available

Customer Help Points

Yes

The Assistance Meeting Point is on the concourse.

Left Luggage

Unavailable

Lost Property

Available

If you have lost something at a Great Northern station or onboard a Great Northern train, please visit the Great Northern website and use the webform to register your lost item.

Some Great Northern trains serve stations which are managed by other train operators (see below). You should consider logging your lost item with them, just in case it's been handed in at one of their stations.

If you have found an item of lost property, please hand it in to a member of staff.

CCTV at the Station

Yes

Help Point location

There are Help Points

Live service information

Announcements are made both visually and audibly

Induction loop availability

Induction loops are at designated listening areas

Station Accessibility

Step-free access

This station does not have step-free access to any platform.

This is a Category C station: This station does not have step-free access.

The Assistance Meeting Point is on the concourse.

Ticket barriers and gates

Unavailable

Accessible ticket machines

Available

All Great Northern ticket machines are able to sell tickets with Disabled Persons Railcard discounts.

Ticket machines are of an accessible design, however their location and the station itself may not be. Please check the station map or the 'step free access' section before making your way to the station.

Induction loop

Yes

Ramp for train access

Unavailable

It is not possible to provide level access between train and platform at this station.

Accessible Toilets

Unavailable

Waiting rooms

Unavailable

Seating area

Available

The platforms at this station are underground. There are seats on both platforms.

Wheelchairs available

Unavailable

Tactile paving on platform edges

There are tactile warnings on all platforms

Getting to and from the station

Accessible taxis here

Unavailable

Impaired mobility set down/pick-up point available

Unavailable

Impaired mobility set-down/ pick-up point note

This is a combined drop-off and pick-up point

Seating or waiting facilities at drop-off/ pick-up

There are no seating or waiting facilities at this drop-off and/or pick-up point

Waiting facility location

The drop-off and/or pick-up point is on the same side of the road as the station

Ramp deployment from rear of vehicle

Ramps can only be deployed from the side of a vehicle

Set-down/ pick-up location covered

The drop-off and/or pick-up point is uncovered

Dimensions of set-down/ pick-up spaces

Lane is at least 3.6m wide

Number of set-down/ pick-up spaces

There is space for up to 3 vehicles to drop-off and/or pick-up

Help Point near set-down/ pick-up

There is no Help Point close to the drop-off and/or pick-up point

Staff Help

Staff help available
  • Staff help available,Monday to Sunday: Available
Customer Help Points

Yes

The Assistance Meeting Point is on the concourse.

Helpline
  • Helpline,Monday to Sunday: Available

The assisted helpline is not available on Christmas Day.

Staff are available at this station at all times for providing assistance getting on and off the train and assistance around the station and to the platform. Assistance can be provided unbooked (turn up and go) or pre booked up to two hours before departure by contacting Assisted Travel.

Whether you pre book assistance or travel unbooked, please contact a member of staff on arrival. We recommend arriving 20 minutes prior to your train departing. This is to allow us to make sure arrangements are in place at your destination, or interchange, station such as the availability of staff and lifts. If there is insufficient time to check these arrangements, we may assist you onto the next available train.

For further information on assisted travel please see:

Accessibility at the station - Great Northern.

Help Point location

There are Help Points

Toilets

Unavailable

Accessible Toilets

Unavailable

Baby Changing

Unavailable

Waiting Rooms

Unavailable

Seating Area

Available

The platforms at this station are underground. There are seats on both platforms.

Refreshment Facilities

Unavailable

Public Telephones

No

Public Wi-Fi

Unavailable

There is no WIFI at this station. However, WIFI is available onboard trains which serve this station. More information about onboard WIFI can be found on the Great Northern website.

Bicycle Storage

Spaces

6 spaces

Location

Cycles are left at owners risk. Abandoned cycles may be removed.

CCTV

Yes

Bicycle Hire

Cycle Hire Information

There are no cycle hire facilities at this station

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