Queen's Park station
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| Location | Queen's Park |
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| Local authority | London Borough of Brent |
| Managed by | London Underground[1] |
| Platforms in use | 4 (6 operational) [2] |
| Travelcard zone | 2 |
| NR 2004/5 usage | 3.151 million[3] |
| NR 2005/6 usage | 3.147 million[3] |
| NR 2006/7 usage | 1.400 million[3] |
| LUL 2005 usage | 4.468 million[4] |
| LUL 2007 usage | 5.045 million[4] |
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| 1879 (LNWR) Opened 1915 (Bakerloo) |
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| List of stations | Underground · National Rail |
Queen's Park station is a Network Rail station served by London Underground and London Overground with some unadvertised London Midland services. It is in West Kilburn at the southern end of Salusbury Road, near the public park from which it takes its name. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.
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[edit] History
The station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.[5]
Services on the Bakerloo Line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915.[6] On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently-built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.[6]
[edit] The station today
All platforms at Queen's Park station are on the surface; the slow main line platforms do not have a regular daytime service, being reserved for use during engineering work or partial line closures. The Bakerloo line tunnel portals are about 300 metres (980 ft) to the east of the station. Bakerloo line services starting or ending at Queen's Park normally do so in the two centre tracks of the 4-track carriage shed immediately to the west of the station. Unusually, Bakerloo line trains joining or leaving the Euston to Watford DC line do so by passing through the carriage shed on one of the two outer roads. Around a third of Bakerloo line trains terminate at Queen's Park rather than continuing to Willesden Junction or Stonebridge Park or Harrow & Wealdstone stations. All platforms are accessed through ticket barriers.
[edit] Transport connections
London Buses routes 6 (24 hour service), 36 (24 hour service), 187 and 316 pass to the south of the station via one or more of Kilburn Lane, Carlton Vale and Shirland Road. Route 206 passes to the north of the station via Salusbury Road and Brondesbury Road. The triangular road junction south of the station is the "West Kilburn (The Falcon)" terminus for routes 36 and N36. No buses actually pass the station entrance.
[edit] Gallery
 Queens Park station |
 The Station in the Silverlink signage prior to late 2007 |
[edit] References
- ^ Transport for London - Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations - 5 December 2006.
- ^ Platforms 5 and 6 at Queen's Park have no regular service.
- ^ a b c Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Queen's Park station from Office of Rail Regulation statistics
- ^ a b Transport for London - London Underground performance update
- ^ "Bakerloo Line, Dates". Clive's Underground Line Guides. http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/bakerloo.html#dates. Retrieved on 2008-07-21.
- ^ a b Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
[edit] External links
- London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Train times and station information for Queen's ParkCoordinates: 51°32′02″N 0°12′23″W / 51.533896°N 0.206336°W
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