Queen's Park station (England)

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Queen's Park
Location of Queen's Park in Greater London
Location Queen's Park
Local authority London Borough of Brent
Grid reference TQ245832
Managed by London Underground [1]
Owner Network Rail
Station code(s)QPW
DfT category C2
Number of platforms6 (4 operational) [2]
Fare zone 2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase2.svg 5.41 million [3]
2020Decrease2.svg 2.78 million [4]
2021Decrease2.svg 2.38 million [5]
2022Increase2.svg 4.15 million [6]
2023Increase2.svg 4.37 million [7]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20Increase2.svg 4.228 million [8]
2020–21Decrease2.svg 1.674 million [8]
2021–22Increase2.svg 3.378 million [8]
2022–23Increase2.svg 3.854 million [8]
2023–24Increase2.svg 4.183 million [8]
Railway companies
Original company London and North Western Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 June 1879 (1879-06-02)Opened as Queen's Park (West Kilburn)
11 February 1915Bakerloo line service introduced
December 1954Renamed Queen's Park
Other information
External links
Coordinates 51°32′02″N0°12′23″W / 51.5339°N 0.2063°W / 51.5339; -0.2063
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Queen's Park is an interchange station situated on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground. It lies at the southern end of Salusbury Road, near the south-east corner of the public park from which the area now known as Queen's Park has taken its modern name. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

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History

Queen's Park station (England)
Location of Queen's Park station

The station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879, on the main line from London to Birmingham. [9]

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915. [10] On 10 May 1915, Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC line tracks shared with the LNWR. [10]

London Midland previously made three operational calls daily, which were not found in public timetables. As of the December 2013 timetable these stops no longer exist, with no main line services calling at the station. [11]

Station layout

All platforms at Queen's Park station are on the surface, the station being covered by a glazed roof. The slow main line platforms (platforms 5 and 6) are reserved for use during engineering work or partial line closures. The Bakerloo line tunnel portals are about 300 metres (980 ft) to the east of the station. The two inner station tracks, platforms 3 (westbound) and 2 (eastbound), split into four tracks in a carriage shed to the west of the station. Bakerloo line services starting or ending at Queen's Park normally do so in the two centre tracks of the four-track carriage shed. Bakerloo line trains joining or leaving the Watford DC line tracks (also used by the Lioness line) do so by passing through the carriage shed on one of the two outer tracks, which merge into the Watford DC line, the latter of which becomes the station's outer tracks. Around a third of Bakerloo line trains terminate at Queen's Park with others continuing onward to Harrow & Wealdstone.

All platforms are accessed by stairs and although there is local pressure for step-free access there are no firm plans for lifts or escalators to be installed. The stairs are all behind the ticket barriers.

Services

Queen's Park is served by a mixture of trains operated by London Overground on the Lioness line and London Underground on the Bakerloo line. The current off-peak service is:

London Underground (Bakerloo line)

8 tph from Elephant & Castle terminate at Queen's Park.

London Overground (Lioness line)

Preceding station Underground no-text.svg London Underground Following station
Kensal Green
towards Harrow & Wealdstone
Bakerloo line Kilburn Park
towards Elephant & Castle
Terminus
Preceding station Overground notextroundel.svg   National Rail logo.svg London Overground Following station
Kensal Green
towards Watford Junction
Lioness line
Watford DC line 		Kilburn High Road
towards Euston
Historical railways
London and North Western Railway

Connections

London Buses routes 6, 36, 187, 206, and 316 serve the station.

Future improvements

Great North Western Railway was given permission to run six trains per day from London to Blackpool North stopping at Queen's Park from 2018, but these plans have yet to come to fruition. [12]

Queen's Park may be the service's terminus, as stopping patterns including permission to run the service beyond Queen's Park to London Euston are dependent upon future infrastructural work to the West Coast Main Line. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Platforms 5 and 6 at Queen's Park have no regular service.
  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.
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  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
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