Location Queen's Park Managed by London Underground DfT category C2 Address London, United Kingdom Owner Network Rail | Grid reference TQ245832 Station code QPW Fare zone 2 Opened 1879 Number of platforms 6 (4 operational) | |
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Similar London Underground, Kilburn Park tube station, Harrow & Wealdstone station, South Kenton station, Kenton station | ||
Queen's Park is a station served by London Underground and London Overground. It is in West Kilburn at the southern end of Salusbury Road, near the public park from which it takes its name. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.
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History
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.
Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915. 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.
London Midland previously made 3 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. Main line services, operated by Grand Central, are scheduled to resume in 2018.
Station layout
All platforms at Queen's Park station are on the surface; 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 4-track carriage shed. Bakerloo line trains joining or leaving the London Overground tracks, also known as the Watford DC Line tracks, 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 rather than continuing to Willesden Junction or Stonebridge Park or Harrow & Wealdstone stations. All platforms are accessed through ticket barriers.
Connections
London Buses routes 6, 36, 187, 206, and 316 serve the station.
Future improvements and services
Great North Western Railway was given permission to run 6 trains per day from London to Blackpool North stopping at Queen's Park from 2018. 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.
Queen's Park is planned to become a step-free station and the project will be completed in 2019.