Willesden Junction station

Willesden Junction is a railway station in the London Borough of Brent. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 3 on the Tubbs Road. In the year 2011 there were 3.92 million subway passengers the station, added 1.781 million passengers by rail.

Plant

The tower station has platforms on two different levels. On the upper level there are the platforms 4 and 5 Here runs the North London Line, a half- circle line, north bypasses the city center between Richmond and Stratford. Willesden Junction is also the starting point of the West London Line via Kensington ( Olympia) to Clapham Junction. Both routes are part of the network of London Overground.

On the lower level, which almost perpendicular crosses the upper, the platforms are 1 to 3 This station part is a part of Overground commuter trains between London Euston and Watford Junction served ( Watford DC Line), on the other hand, on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground. Some Bakerloo trains call at Willesden Junction, rather than continue on up to Harrow & Wealdstone.

History

In 1837 trains of the London and Birmingham Railway drove here on the West Coast Main Line through without stopping. The successor company London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) opened on 1 September 1866 the existing route the train station. In 1869, the North London Line followed. The LNWR took on June 15, 1912 the electric suburban traffic on the parallel Watford DC Line. Features of the Bakerloo line reached Willesden Junction for the first time on May 10, 1915 almost two years later, this drove on towards Watford.

The remote platforms on the West Coast Main Line was built in 1962 in the electrification of the line to allow a route with a larger radius. However, there is a reactivation of the platforms for discussion in the possibly modifications to the higher level - the North London Line platforms - would be necessary.