Harrow & Wealdstone station

Harrow & Wealdstone is a railway station in the London Borough of Harrow. It is served by London Overground commuter trains on the route between London Euston and Watford Junction and is also the northern terminus of the Bakerloo Line of the London Underground. In addition, here including high-speed trains of the companies Southern and London Midland. The station is located in Travelcard Zone 5 In 2011, 4.47 million subway passengers were counted, added 1.463 million passengers by rail.

History

The station was opened on July 20, 1837 by the London and Birmingham Railway (L & BR) under the name of Harrow. At the time of opening of the station was far away from any settlement, the nearest village (Harrow -on-the -Hill ) was 2.5 km to the south. Wealdstone was a small hamlet 1.5 km north of the station. From December 18th 1890 to July 6, 1964 a short branch line was towards Stanmore in operation. The London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ), the successor to the L & BR, adopted on June 15, 1912 the electric suburban traffic on parallel tracks laid on (known as the Watford DC Line). The metro trains the Bakerloo Line was followed on 16 April 1917.

On 8 October 1952, at Harrow & Wealdstone one of the worst train crashes in the history of Britain's railways occurred. An incoming from Scotland overnight express train collided in the morning at 8:19 clock with the rear end of a local train that had stopped on track 4. Seconds later rammed a northbound express train traveling the two wedged trains and tore down the pedestrian bridge. In this disaster 112 people died, 340 were injured.

The operation of the Bakerloo line on the section north of Stonebridge Park was temporarily suspended on 24 September 1982. However, the re-commissioning on June 4, 1984 did not affect the section between Harrow & Wealdstone and Watford Junction.

Since 1989, the station is a listed building (Grade II).