Northwick Park tube station
Northwick Park | |
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Main station entrance | |
Northwick Park Location of Northwick Park in Greater London | |
Location | Northwick Park |
Local authority | London Borough of Brent |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Fare zone | 4 |
OSI | Kenton [1] |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2012 | 3.79 million[2] |
2013 | 3.95 million[2] |
2014 | 4.44 million[2] |
2015 | 4.59 million[2] |
Key dates | |
2 August 1880 | Metropolitan Railway passes through here en route to Harrow |
19 July 1908 | Line electrified |
28 June 1923 | Opened as "Northwick Park and Kenton" |
15 March 1937 | Renamed "Northwick Park" |
Other information | |
Lists of stations | |
WGS84 | 51°34′43″N 0°19′07″W / 51.5786°N 0.3186°WCoordinates: 51°34′43″N 0°19′07″W / 51.5786°N 0.3186°W |
London Transport portal |
Northwick Park is a London Underground station in Northwick Park in the London Borough of Brent on the Metropolitan line. It lies between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Preston Road and is in Travelcard Zone 4.
It is served by 'slow' (all stations) trains only (fast and semi-fast trains do not stop at stations between Wembley Park and Harrow-on-the-Hill). It takes an average time of 20 minutes from Baker Street.
It is close to Northwick Park Hospital, the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster, and the suburb of Kenton. Kenton station on the Bakerloo line and London Overground's Watford DC Line is within walking distance. If a journey is chosen between the northern end of the Metropolitan line and stations on the Watford DC line on Transport for London's journey planner, walking between Kenton and Northwick Park is generally given as the quickest route. It is an official out-of-station interchange between these two stations.
Connections
London Buses routes H9, H10, H18 and H19 serve the station.
References
- ↑ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLS). Transport for London. May 2011. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. April 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
Gallery
- Southern entrance
- Northbound platform looking north
- Southbound platform looking south
- Station platform roundel
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Northwick Park tube station. |
- "Northwick Park". Photographic Archive. London Transport Museum. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17.
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