Northwick Park tube station explained

Symbol:underground
Northwick Park
Locale:Kenton
Borough:London Borough of Brent
Manager:London Underground
Platforms:2
Fare Zone:4
Tubeexits06:3.22
Tubeexits07: 3.54
Tubeexits08: 3.74
Tubeexits09: 3.617 -->
Years1:2 August 1880
Years2:19 July 1908
Years3:28 June 1923
Years4:15 March 1937
Events1:Metropolitan Railway passes through here en route to Harrow
Events2:Line electrified
Events3:Opened as "Northwick Park and Kenton"
Events4:Renamed "Northwick Park"
Coordinates:51.5786°N -0.3186°W

Northwick Park is a London Underground station in Kenton in the London Borough of Brent on the Metropolitan line. It lies between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Preston Road stations and is in Travelcard zone 4. The station takes its name from the nearby public park, Northwick Park.

It is close to Northwick Park Hospital and the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster. Kenton station, located on the Bakerloo line and the London Overground, is within walking distance.[1] There is an official out-of-station interchange between these two stations.

On the island platform, there is one of the few surviving K8 telephone kiosks. Now used for the TfL internal system, the kiosk is Grade II listed

Services

It is served by 'slow' (all stations) trains only (fast and semi-fast trains do not stop at stations between Wembley Park and Harrow-on-the-Hill). It takes an average time of 20 minutes from Baker Street.

The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:[2]

The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is:

Note that during evening peaks, services to Amersham or Chesham from Northwick Park or Preston Road require a change at Harrow-On-The-Hill.

During the morning peak (06:30 to 09:30), fast services from Amersham and Chesham run non-stop southbound only between Moor Park, Harrow-On-The-Hill and Finchley Road whilst semi-fast services from Watford and Uxbridge run non-stop southbound only between Harrow-On-The-Hill and Finchley Road. During the evening peak (16:30-19:30), fast and semi-fast services, which operate northbound only, call additionally at Wembley Park.

Connections

London Buses routes H18 and H19 serve the station.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Shown as a dotted line now on the Tube MapWeb site: Online Tube Map – May 2019(b). 2019-07-20.
  2. Book: Working Timetable 340 Metropolitan Line. Transport for London. 2017. 4.
  3. Web site: Buses from Northwick Park and Kenton. 25 November 2023. TfL. 16 December 2023.