Queen's Park station

Queen's Park
Queen's Park

Location of Queen's Park in Greater London
Location Queen's Park
Local authority London Borough of Brent
Managed by London Underground[1]
Owner Network Rail
Station code QPW
Number of platforms 6 (4 operational)[2]
Fare zone 2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008 5.660 million[3]
2009 5.286 million[3]
2010 5.210 million[3]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2007–08 1.564 million[4]
2008–09 1.555 million[4]
2009–10 2.320 million[4]
1879 Opened (LNWR)
1915 Opened (Bakerloo)
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Queen's Park station is a station served by London Underground and London Overground. It is in West Kilburn at the southern end of Salusbury Road, near the public park from which it takes its name. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

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History

The station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.[5]

Services on the Bakerloo Line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915.[6] On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently-built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.[6]

The station today

All platforms at Queen's Park station are on the surface; the slow main line platforms do not have a regular daytime service, being reserved for use during engineering work or partial line closures. The Bakerloo line tunnel portals are about 300 metres (980 ft) to the east of the station. Bakerloo line services starting or ending at Queen's Park normally do so in the two centre tracks of the 4-track carriage shed immediately to the west of the station. Unusually, Bakerloo line trains joining or leaving the Watford DC Line do so by passing through the carriage shed on one of the two outer roads. Around a third of Bakerloo line trains terminate at Queen's Park rather than continuing to Willesden Junction or Stonebridge Park or Harrow & Wealdstone stations. All platforms are accessed through ticket barriers.

Transport connections

London Buses routes 6 (24 hour service), 36 (24 hour service), 187 and 316 pass to the south of the station via one or more of Kilburn Lane, Carlton Vale and Shirland Road. Route 206 passes to the north of the station via Salusbury Road and Brondesbury Road. The triangular road junction south of the station is the "West Kilburn (The Falcon)" terminus for route 36. No buses actually pass the station entrance.

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References

  1. ^ Platforms 5 and 6 at Queen's Park have no regular service.
  2. ^ a b c "Customer metrics: entries and exits". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. 2003-2010. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/performance/default.asp?onload=entryexit. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
  3. ^ a b c "Station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. 30 April 2010. http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529. Retrieved 17 January 2011.  Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  4. ^ "Bakerloo Line, Dates". Clive's Underground Line Guides. http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/bakerloo.html#dates. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 
  5. ^ a b Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4. 

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