Willesden Green tube station

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Willesden Green
Location
Place	Willesden Green
Local authority	Brent

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	2 and 3
2005 annual usage	7.304 million †
2007 annual usage	8.516 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1879
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Willesden Green tube station is a London Underground station at Willesden. It is on the Jubilee Line, between Dollis Hill and Kilburn. Metropolitan Line trains pass through the station, but do not stop. It is on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.

The station opened on 24 November 1879 on the Metropolitan Railway (later the Metropolitan Line). From 20 November 1939 it also served the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo Line, with Met services being withdrawn the following year. It transferred to the Jubilee Line in 1979. The station still has platforms on the Metropolitan line, but these are not in regular use and are usually locked to passengers. Apart from a few early-morning and late-evening services, they only see services when there are no services on the Jubilee line.

The main station buildings, which date from the reconstruction of 1925, are fine examples of the work of C W Clark, the Metropolitan Railway's architect, who used this style of marble white faience for several 'central' area stations. The ticket hall interior, which retains much of the original green tesserae mosaic tiling, is a rare survival and was one of the reasons that led to the station being made a Grade 2 Listed Building in December 2006.

Willesden Green is one of the few stations on the southern section of the former Metropolitan Mainline to still have its original platform buildings intact and its architecture is typical for a station serving a medium sized town. Baker Street and Neasden are the other stations to have its platform buildings intact. The line between Finchley Road and Harrow-on-the-Hill was quadrupled between 1914-1916, and many intermediate stations had to be rebuilt to enable the fast lines to be built.

The goods yard lied to the north of the station and was in use until 1966. From 1933, when the London Transport took over service, trains from the north would be run by the LNER to LT Neasden works where they would be then hauled by LT steam locos to Willesden.

There are frequent Jubilee Line trains from London which terminate at Willesden Green.