Northwick Park tube station

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Northwick Park
Location of Northwick Park in Greater London
Location Kenton
Local authority London Borough of Brent
Managed by London Underground
Number of platforms2
Fare zone 4
OSI Kenton Underground no-text.svg Overground roundel (no text).svg [1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase2.svg 4.36 million [2]
2020Decrease2.svg 2.43 million [3]
2021Decrease2.svg 1.84 million [4]
2022Increase2.svg 3.17 million [5]
2023Increase2.svg 3.35 million [6]
Key dates
2 August 1880Metropolitan Railway passes through here en route to Harrow
19 July 1908Line electrified
28 June 1923Opened as "Northwick Park and Kenton"
15 March 1937Renamed "Northwick Park"
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External links
Coordinates 51°34′43″N0°19′07″W / 51.57861°N 0.31861°W / 51.57861; -0.31861
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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 located in London fare zone 4. The station takes its name from the nearby public park, Northwick Park.

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It is close to Northwick Park Hospital and the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster. Kenton station, served by the Bakerloo line and the Lioness line of the London Overground, is within walking distance. [7] There is an official out-of-station interchange between these two stations. [1]

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 [8]

Services

It is served by "all stations" trains only (northbound 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: [9]

The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is: [9]

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. [9]

Preceding station Underground no-text.svg London Underground Following station
Harrow-on-the-Hill
towards Watford, Chesham, Amersham or Uxbridge
Metropolitan line Preston Road
towards Baker Street or Aldgate

Connections

London Buses routes H18 and H19 serve the station. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Archived from the original on 11 April 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Archived from the original on 6 April 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ↑ Shown as a dotted line now on the Tube Map "Online Tube Map – May 2019(b)" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ↑ Historic England (31 May 2023). "K8 Kiosk at Northwick Park Station (Grade II) (1485378)". National Heritage List for England .
  9. 1 2 3 Working Timetable 340 Metropolitan Line. Transport for London. 2017. p. 4.
  10. ↑ "Buses from Northwick Park and Kenton" (PDF). TfL. 25 November 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
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