Queensbury tube station

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Queensbury
Location
Place	Queensbury
Local authority	Brent

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	4
2005 annual usage	2.417 million †
2007 annual usage	3.192 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1934
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Queensbury tube station is a London Underground station at Queensbury, grid reference TQ18818976. It is on the Jubilee Line, between Canons Park and Kingsbury. It is in Travelcard Zone 4.

The station opened on December 16, 1934, two years after the neighbouring stations, as part of the Metropolitan Line and with its branch was transferred to the Bakerloo Line in 1939 and then the Jubilee Line in 1979.

The name Queensbury did not, when it was chosen, refer to any pre-existing area. It was coined by analogy with the adjacent Kingsbury station. Most of the locale now known as Queensbury is actually to the north-west of the tube station, in the London Borough of Harrow, just across the borough border from the tube station, which is in the London Borough of Brent.

The station, and its local surroundings and characters were cited in the song "Queensbury Station" by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album "Beyond Believeable", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988. The song was written by Paul Bonin and Melanie Hickford, who both grew up and lived in the area.^[1]