Preston Road tube station

Preston Road is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Brent. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4, near the intersection of Preston Road and Grasmere Avenue. The area served by the Metropolitan Line station was used in 2011 of 2.96 million passengers.

The route of the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line) already existed since 1880, the Station Preston Road, however, was not built until later and opened on 21 May 1908. The area was then only sparsely populated, but in a shooting club in the immediate neighborhood found during the Olympic Summer Games in 1908, the competitions held in clay pigeon shooting. On July 19, 1908, the line was electrified.

In subsequent years, the station has remained relatively insignificant; the passenger frequencies were so low that the trains stopped only upon request. At the beginning of the 1920s, the area took on more and more of a suburban character and the simple station buildings wooden increasingly lead to no longer sufficient. Following the expansion of the distance between Wembley Park and Harrow-on- the-Hill from two to four tracks you moved the station on 22 November 1931 on the west side of Preston Road. The new facilities were on January 3, 1932 final commissioning. 2007 the renovation of the station building.