Willesden Junction station

Willesden Junction station is a Network Rail station in Harlesden, north-west London; it is served by both London Overground and London Underground Bakerloo line trains. It is about one mile south of the original Willesden and on the southern edge of the erstwhile Municipal Borough of Willesden.

History

The station developed on three contiguous sites:
* The West Coast Main Line (WCML) station was opened by the London & North Western Railway on 1 September 1866 to replace the London and Birmingham Railway's Willesden station of 1841 which was a kilometre to the northwest. Passenger services ended in 1962 on the electrification of the WCML and this part of the station was demolished but space for its restitution remains should any of the plans for outer-suburban services to call here come to fruition.
*The High Level station on the North London Line (NLL) was opened by the North London Railway in 1869 on a track crossing the WCML roughly at right angles.
*The "Willesden New Station" or Low Level station on the "New Line" was opened in 18?? to the north of the main line with two outer through platforms and two inner bay platforms at the London end.

The main line platforms were numbered 1 and 2 with the numbers of the others running up and unchanged for some years after the main line platforms were removed.

The station today

*There are now no platforms on the WCML, which is separated from the low level station by the approach road to Willesden Depot which is to the immediate south-east of the station.
*The high level platforms, 4 and 5, which are at street level of the area to the north of the station, serve the NLL and the West London Line; trains on the latter reverse in a turnback siding to the east of the station on the NLL.
*The low level station, at the level of the area to the south, is an island platform, with outer faces as platforms 1 and 3 and one face of the east-facing two-platform bay as platform 2, the other face of the bay now has no track. Platforms 1 and 3 are used by the Bakerloo line services, which began on 10 May 1915. cite web |url=http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/bakerloo.html#dates |title=Bakerloo Line, Dates |work=Clive's Underground Line Guides |accessdate=2008-07-22] and London Overground services between Euston and Watford Junction. A north-bound Bakerloo line train which is to reverse at Stonebridge Park depot (2 stations further north) must run empty from Willesden Junction. The southbound service resumes from Stonebridge Park. This imbalance is because there are no London Underground staff beyond Willesden Junction to oversee passenger detrainment. Normally only the first and last NLL trains of the day, which start or terminate here, use the bay platform, though it is used for empty stock transfers between the depot and the North London Line and the Gospel Oak to Barking line,

ervices

The typical off-peak passenger train services per hour (tph) in each direction on the routes serving this station are:

DC Line/Bakerloo Line on low level platforms
*3: London Euston - Watford Junction

*9: Elephant & CastleBakerloo line frequencies are variable and specific timetables are not listed.] - Harrow & Wealdstone

North London Line on high level platforms
*4: Richmond - Stratford

West London Line on high level platforms
*2: Willesden Junction - Clapham Junction

Gallery

References

External links

* [http://photos.ltmcollection.org London Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
**ltmcollection|n5/i00008n5.jpg|Bakerloo Line train at Willesden Junction station, 1917
**ltmcollection|63/9889263.jpg|Willesden Junction station entrance, 1928
* [http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=WIJ Train times] and [http://nrekb.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/index.html?a=findStation&station_query=WIJ station information] for Willesden Junction railway station from National Rail (Station code: WIJ)

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