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Kingsbury tube station

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Location
  
Kingsbury

Accessible
  
Yes

2012
  
3.73 million

Opened
  
10 December 1932

Number of platforms
  
2

Original company
  
Metropolitan Railway

Managed by
  
London Underground

Fare zone
  
4

2013
  
4.12 million

Phone
  
+44 343 222 1234

Local authority
  
London Borough of Brent

Kingsbury tube station

Address
  
Kingsbury Rd, London NW9 9EG, UK

Similar
  
Queensbury tube station, Dollis Hill tube station, London Underground, Neasden tube station, Wembley Park tube station

Journey between kingsbury tube station and wembley park station on jubilee line on 19 04 12


Kingsbury is a London Underground station in northwest London, England. It is on the Jubilee line, in Zone 4, in the borough of Brent.

Contents

Although now only served by deep-level tube trains, the section of line serving the station is built to surface gauge, and trains to that larger LU loading gauge occasionally pass through.

History

It was opened on 10 December 1932 as part of the Stanmore branch of the Metropolitan Railway and served by that company's electric trains. After the formation of London Transport in 1933 this branch became part of the LU Metropolitan line and was later transferred to the Bakerloo line in 1939 then to the Jubilee line in 1979. The design style is similar to that of other Metropolitan Railway buildings of the same period rather than to the concrete and glass style used at the same time by the LER group. In common with other nearby Metropolitan Railway stations (e.g. Harrow-on-the-Hill, Neasden, Queensbury) there is an element of fiction in the station name; the area is properly within the eastern extent of Kenton (Kingsbury Road at this point was originally part of the eastern end of Kenton Lane) and Kingsbury proper is actually closer to Neasden LU station.

Location

The station entrance is in a parade of shops on the south side of the A4006 Kingsbury Road, opposite Berkeley Road.

Connections

London Buses routes 79, 183, 204, 305 and 324, night route N98 and non-TFL route 644 serve the station.

References

Kingsbury tube station Wikipedia