Preston Road (London Underground)
Preston Road is an overground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Brent . It is in the Travelcard - Tarifzone 4, near the intersection of Preston Road and Grasmere Avenue. The station served by the Metropolitan Line was used by 3.15 million passengers in 2013.
The route of the Metropolitan Railway (predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line) existed since 1880, the Preston Road station was built afterwards and opened on May 21, 1908. The area was very sparsely populated at the time, but in a shooting club in the immediate vicinity found during the Summer Olympics in 1908 the competitions in clay pigeon shooting instead. On July 19, 1908, the line was electrified.
In the following years the station remained relatively insignificant; the passenger frequencies were so low that the trains only stopped on request. At the beginning of the 1920s, the area took on a more and more suburban character and the simple wooden stations increasingly proved to be inadequate. In the course of the expansion of the line between Wembley Park and Harrow-on-the-Hill from two to four tracks, the station was moved on November 22, 1931 to the west side of Preston Road. The new systems definitely went into operation on January 3, 1932. In 2007 the station building was renovated.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ^ Metropolitan Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 10, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 19 ″ N , 0 ° 17 ′ 41.5 ″ W.