Kilburn Park tube station

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Kilburn Park
Kilburn Park underground station
Location
Place Kilburn
Local authority London Borough of Brent
Operations
Managed by London Underground
Platforms in use 2
Transport for London
Zone 2
2004 annual usage 3.118 million †
2007 annual usage 3.363 million †
History
Key dates Opened 1915
Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]

Kilburn Park tube station is a London Underground station at Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent. The station is on the Bakerloo Line, between Queen's Park and Maida Vale underground stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

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[edit] History

Kilburn Park opened on 31 January 1915 as the temporary terminus of the Bakerloo Line's extension from Paddington station towards Queen's Park. Services were extended to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915. At the extension's opening, Maida Vale station was not complete and the previous station was Warwick Avenue until 6 June 1915. The station building was designed by Stanley Heaps in a modified version of the earlier Leslie Green designed Bakerloo Line stations with glazed terra cotta façades but without the large semi-circular windows at first floor level. It was also one of the first London Underground stations built specifically to use escalators rather than lifts.

[edit] The station today

The station is situated on Cambridge Avenue approximately 100 m west of Kilburn High Road, shortly before it becomes Maida Vale, (A5).

[edit] Transport links

Bus routes 31, 32, 206, 316, 328, school route 632 and night routes N28 and N31 serve the station. Also, it is only a short walk from Kilburn High Road Station (London Overground).

[edit] Image gallery

Kilburn Park tube station Interior

Ticket hall

Ticket window

Glass-domed roof over the escalators (September 2006)

The Southbound platform

[edit] External links

Preceding station   London Underground   Following station
Bakerloo line