Stanmore Village railway station

Infobox Closed London station
name=Stanmore


owner=London & North Western Railway
locale=Stanmore
platforms=1
start=1890 (L&NWR)
Closed 1952 (BR, to passengers)| end=1964 (BR)| replace=none

Stanmore (or Stanmore Village) was a station in Stanmore, Greater London in what was previously Middlesex. It was opened on 18 December 1890 by the London & North Western Railway as the terminus of a short branch line running north from Harrow & Wealdstone. The station was located on the south side of the junction of Gordon Avenue and Old Church Lane (the section north of the junction was originally named Station Road).

The connection to the main line at Harrow & Wealdstone station faced away from London preventing through trains operating without a reversal; the passenger service was thus operated as a shuttle from Harrow and Wealdstone to Stanmore.

The opening in 1932 by the Metropolitan Railway of its own Stanmore station about 1 km (0.6 miles) to the north-east (later served by the Bakerloo Line and now by the Jubilee Line) with a then direct service to the West End and the City of London offered strong competition to the L&NWR station and an intermediate station on the branch line was constructed at Belmont, opening on 12 September 1932. However, the passenger service to Stanmore Village as it was by now called was ended on 15 September 1952, with only a daily freight train using the line beyond Belmont. The latter station and the line itself were closed completely on 6 July 1964, as part of the railway cuts implemented under the Beeching Axe.

To help the station blend with its surroundings it was designed to resemble a church, including a short spire. The platform buildings were demolished in the 1970s for the construction of a road of new houses, September Way, which was built along part of the track alignment. Part of the main station building was incorporated into a new home, minus the spire, and a plaque indicates the site of the station.

External links

* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/stanmore_village/index.shtml Disused stations - Stanmore Village]
* [http://dewi.ca/trains/stanmore/index.html Dewi Williams' site - Stanmore station]

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