Finchley Road tube station

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Finchley Road
Location
Place	Finchley Road
Local authority	Camden
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	4
Transport for London
Zone	2
Annual entry/exit	8.836 million †
History
1879 1939 1979	Opened (MR) Start (Bakerloo Line) End (Bakerloo Line) Start (Jubilee Line)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Finchley Road tube station is a London Underground station at the corner of Finchley Road and Canfield Gardens in the London Borough of Camden, London NW3. It is on the Jubilee Line, between West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage and on the Metropolitan Line between Baker Street and Wembley Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station is adjacent to the O₂ Shopping Centre. Despite its name the station is not in Finchley which is several miles to the north. It serves the Frognal and South Hampstead areas.

[edit] History

The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan Line) on its extension from its now closed station at St. John's Wood (a different station to the current St. John's Wood Jubilee Line station). The station was rebuilt in 1914 with entrances incorporated into a new parade of shops.

By the mid 1930s the Metroplitan Line was suffering from congestion on its main routes from north London caused by the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To alleviate this congestion new sections of deep tube tunnels were bored between Finchley Road and Baker Street to carry some of the traffic from the Stanmore branch and stations south of Wembley Park. These new tunnels opened on 20 November 1939 and from that date Finchley Road station was also served by Bakerloo Line trains running from Baker Street using the new tunnels. The Bakerloo Line services were subsequently transferred to the Jubilee Line when that line commenced operation on 1 May 1979.

[edit] Trivia

Analysis of earth removed when tunnelling towards the station revealed that its site was on the edge of the glacier which covered Britain to the north throughout the last Ice Age.

Station platform from a northbound Jubilee Line train

[edit] External links

London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
www.railwayarchive.org.uk Finchley Road station, Canfield Gardens entrance, 1933.

Previous station		London Underground		Next station
West Hampstead toward Stanmore		Jubilee Line		Swiss Cottage toward Stratford
Wembley Park toward Uxbridge, Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer or Watford		Metropolitan Line		Baker Street toward Aldgate