Neasden tube station

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Neasden
Location
Place	Neasden
Local authority	Brent
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	4
Transport for London
Zone	3
Annual entry/exit	2.479 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1880
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Neasden Underground station is a London Underground station in Neasden. It is on the Jubilee Line, between Wembley Park and Dollis Hill. Metropolitan Line trains pass through the station but do not stop, except on rare occasions.

The station opened on 2 August 1880 as part of the ongoing extensions to the Metropolitan Railway, with the name Kingsbury and Neasden. The name was changed to Neasden and Kingsbury in 1910, and then changed again to its current name Neasden in 1932, the same year Kingsbury station opened. In 1939 train services to Stanmore were transferred to the new eastern branch of the Bakerloo Line and Metropolitan Line trains ceased to stop at the station the following year. In 1979, the main service was transferred to the Jubilee Line.

The station's surface building is located in Neasden Lane. As well as the ticket office there are 3 ticket collection barriers and a single luggage gate (these were installed in the late 1990s, prior to this there were no barriers and just a gate), it also has a shop. The stairs from the surface building lead to 4 platforms. Platforms 1 and 4 are on the Metropolitan Line, served on a few days a year for local events and when necessary due to disruptions to normal services. Platforms 2 and 3 were originally built in 1914, when the Metropolitan Railway tracks were doubled. They later became the Northbound and Southbound platforms for the Bakerloo Line, now being used for the Jubilee Line but are constructed to "transition height" to allow regular use by tube trains of the Jubilee Line and occasional (early morning, late night and during work on the line) use by the larger Metropolitan Line trains.