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[edit] The current Wembley Stadium station
Wembley Stadium formerly Wembley Complex is a Network Rail station served by Chiltern Railways; it is located in Wembley Hill Road, Wembley, Greater London, and leads up about a quarter mile (400m) west of Wembley Stadium, and is the closest station.
Train services run from Marylebone towards High Wycombe and Birmingham Snow Hill. Not all trains stop at all stations and travellers are recommended to consult a timetable before travelling as the service is not as frequent as that of other nearby stations such as Wembley Central and Wembley Park. However, on certain match days Chiltern Railways provide an 8 carriage train which transports fans from Marylebone to the station. On match days at Wembley Stadium, the trains will become busy and crowded.
The station was previously known as "Wembley Hill" and later "Wembley Complex" and should not be confused with the long-closed station of the same name which was to the East of the stadium. The station was originally built with four tracks, the two platforms being located on passing loops on either side of the main running lines; the passing loops were removed in the 1960s to produce the current layout.
[edit] The original Wembley Stadium station
The original Wembley Stadium station (51°33′31″N 0°16′23″W / 51.558638, -0.273010)was a single-platform station located on a loop providing access to and from the Marylebone to High Wycombe line between Wembley Hill station and Neasden Junction; both connections allowed travel to and from the London direction only. Despite extensive development in recent years, a few traces of the line can still be distinguished on maps or in aerial photographs. The line was normally only used for passenger services for events (mainly at the stadium or the Empire Pool) within the estate built for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. Temporary sidings were made leading into the "Palace of Engineering" exhibition hall for the transport of bulky exhibits: the Great Western Railway had on show the locomotive Caerphilly Castle and the London and North Eastern Railway Flying Scotsman: both companies claimed that their exhibit was the most powerful passenger locomotive in Britain.[1][2]
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