Brondesbury railway station

Brondesbury London Overground

Brondesbury station entrance, Kilburn High Road
Brondesbury
Location of Brondesbury in Greater London
Location Kilburn
Local authority London Borough of Brent
Managed by London Overground
Owner Network Rail
Station code BSY
Number of platforms 2
Fare zone 2
OSI Kilburn London Underground [1]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2007–08 Decrease 1.116 million[2]
2008–09 Decrease 0.837 million[2]
2009–10 Decrease 0.769 million[2]
2010–11 Increase 1.172 million[2]
2011–12 Increase 1.783 million[2]
2012–13 Increase 2.247 million[2]
Railway companies
Original company Hampstead Junction Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 January 1860 Opened as Edgeware Road (Kilburn)
1 November 1865 Renamed Edgware Road
1 January 1872 Renamed Edgware Road and Brondesbury
1 January 1873 Renamed Brondesbury (Edgware Road)
1 May 1883 Renamed Brondesbury
Other information
Lists of stations
External links
London Transport portal
UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°32′42″N 0°12′07″W / 51.5451°N 0.202°W

Brondesbury is on the North London Line, on a viaduct crossing Kilburn High Road in the Brondesbury area of Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent in north-west London.

It is approximately 200 metres south-east of Kilburn station and half a mile north-west of Kilburn High Road station.

Ticket barriers are now in operation.

History

Brondesbury station opened on 2 January 1860 as Edgeware Road (Kilburn) [sic] station on the Hampstead Junction Railway.[3] It was renamed several times: Edgware Road on 1 November 1865,[3] Edgware Road and Brondesbury on 1 January 1872,[3] Brondesbury (Edgware Road) on 1 January 1873,[3][4] Brondesbury on 1 May 1883.[4][5][6] A signal box was in use at the station until 5 February 1962.[7]

Brondesbury Station in 1961

A number of plans were put forward between 1890 and 1926 to build an underground railway along the Edgware Road, and would have seen the construction of a Tube station at Brondesbury. None of the schemes succeeded and no such line was ever built.[8]

Services

Brondesbury currently has the following London Overground (North London Line) services, which is operated by Class 378 trainsets.

Off-peak:

Preceding station   London Overground   Following station
towards Richmond
North London Line
towards Stratford

Connections

London Buses routes 16; 32; 189; 316; 332 and school route 632 and night route N16 serve the station. [9]

Future improvements

Brondesbury was planned to become a step-free station and the project will be completed in 2017.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Out of Station Interchanges" (MICROSOFT EXCEL). Transport for London. May 2011. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 89. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Butt 1995, p. 46
  5. ↑ History.ac.uk
  6. ↑ Joe Brown (November 2006). London Railway Atlas. Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. p. 21, section A2. ISBN 0-7110-3137-1. 0611/3.
  7. ↑ Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith (1997). North London Line (Broad Street to Willesden Jn. via Hampstead Heath. MP Middleton Press.
  8. ↑ Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005). London's Lost Tube Schemes. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-293-3.
  9. ↑ Bus routes from Brondesbury PDF (435 KB)
  10. ↑ Step-free Access - Transport for London

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