Highbury & Islington Station

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Highbury & Islington is a London Underground and National Rail interchange station in the London Borough of Islington, north London. It is served by the London Underground's Victoria line, London Overground's East and North London Lines, and Great Northern's Northern City Line.On the Victoria line the station is between and. On the Northern City Line it is between and, 2mi down-line from.The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.HistoryThe current station derives from two earlier stations. The first, which was on the same site, was an impressive Victorian-gothic building, designed by Edwin Henry Horne, with a drive-in forecourt, built in 1850 as Islington by the North London Railway (NLR). Station reconstruction completed in 1872 when renamed Highbury & IslingtonThe second station, on the opposite side of Holloway Road, was opened on 28 June 1904 by the Great Northern & City Railway (GN&CR) on its underground line, between and. This line and stations were operated by the Metropolitan Railway and its successors from 1913 until 1975 when the line, by then called the Northern City Line, was transferred to British Rail. The route is now operated by Great Northern.