Harrow & Wealdstone Railway Station
Harrow & Wealdstone is a train station in the London Borough of Harrow . It is served by London Overground local trains on the route between London Euston and Watford Junction and is also the northern terminus of the London Underground's Bakerloo Line . Express trains from Southern and London Midland also stop here . The train station is in the Travelcard tariff zone 5. In 2014, 4.51 million subway passengers were counted, plus 3.088 million rail passengers.
history
development
The station was opened on July 20, 1837 by the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) under the name Harrow . At the time of opening, the station was far from any settlement, the next village ( Harrow-on-the-Hill ) was around 2.5 km to the south. Wealdstone was a small hamlet one mile north of the station. From December 18, 1890 to July 6, 1964, a short branch line towards Stanmore was in operation. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR), the successor to the L&BR, took up electrical suburban traffic on parallel tracks on June 15, 1912 (the so-called Watford DC Line ). The underground trains of the Bakerloo Line followed on April 16, 1917.
Operation of the Bakerloo Line on the section north of Stonebridge Park was temporarily suspended on September 24, 1982. The restart on June 4, 1984 did not affect the section between Harrow & Wealdstone and Watford Junction.
The station has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1989 .
Accidents
On May 5, 1862 came in the train station to the boiler explosion of locomotive No. 878 of the London and North Western Railway , which pulled a freight train . The cause was the internally corroded steam boiler of the locomotive. The stoker was dead on the spot, the engine driver was injured.
On October 8, 1952, Harrow & Wealdstone suffered one of the worst train accidents in the history of British railways. A night express train coming from Scotland collided at 8:19 a.m. with the rear end of a local train that stopped on platform 4. Seconds later, a northbound express train rammed the two wedged trains and tore down the pedestrian bridge. In this accident 112 people were killed and 340 injured.
Web links
- Departure times and travel information from National Rail
- 1952 Harrow & Wealdstone train crash
- Photo of the station building (1925)
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
- ^ Cyril M. Harris: What's in a name? Capital Transport. London 1976, p. 33. ISBN 1-85414-241-0 .
- ^ Station name: Stanmore Village. Disused stations site record, April 20, 2010, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Bakerloo Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Harrow & Wealdstone Station. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on January 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Railways Archive - Accident Archive.
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenton | Bakerloo Line | final destination | ||
|
London Overground Watford DC Line |
Headstone Lane | |||
| Previous station | National Rail | Next train station | ||
| Watford Junction |
Southern Milton Keynes - South Croydon |
Wembley Central | ||
| Bushey |
London Midland West Coast Main Line |
London Euston | ||
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 0 ° 20 ′ 4.9 ″ W.