Northwood Hills tube station

Northwood Hills is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 6 at the Joel Street. The area served by the Metropolitan Line station was used in 2011 of 1.29 million passengers.

The station is located on the four-track section between Harrow-on- the-Hill and Moor Park. Only the two northern tracks have side platforms, in these hold local trains of the Metropolitan Line. Express trains of the Metropolitan Line and all trains of the railway company Chiltern Railways run on the two southern tracks by without stopping.

The route to Rickmansworth was opened already in 1887 by the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line) and 1925 electrified. However, the population density in the area was initially very low, which is why the opening of the station took place only on 13 November 1933. Its name from the station in a competition. The term Hills seems to indicate that the station is located on a hilly terrain, but actually it is even deeper than Northwood. In 1961, the distance between Harrow-on- the-Hill and Northwood Hills received a second dual track. A year later to the branch north of Moorpark was extended.