Wembley Park Underground Station
Wembley Park is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Brent . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Bridge Road. Served by the Jubilee Line and Metropolitan Line , the station was used by 14.11 million passengers in 2014. Wembley Stadium is about half a kilometer further south . Access is via an underpass with an adjoining pedestrian bridge.
history
The line had existed since 1880, but the station was built later and opened on October 14, 1893 by the Metropolitan Railway (predecessor of the Metropolitan Line). The station's task was to develop the leisure facilities built by the Metropolitan Railway. These were located in Wembley Park, a former country estate that the railway company had acquired in 1881.
Initially, the trains only stopped on Saturdays when football games were taking place in Wembley Stadium, and from May 12, 1894 on all other days as well. In 1899 the Great Central Railway opened parallel tracks, but trains never stopped at the station. In 1905 the subway tracks were electrified. Between 1913 and 1915, the Metropolitan Railway moved a second double track to increase the capacity of the line. On December 10, 1932, she opened a branch line to Stanmore .
Originally the Metropolitan Railway served all stations south of Wembley Park to Baker Street , but the line reached its capacity limits as it had only two instead of four tracks at its southern end. After the company was integrated into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, the new public service company built additional tunnels for the Bakerloo Line to connect them south of Finchley Road to the metropolitan line. On November 20, 1939, the Bakerloo Line trains took over local traffic, while the Metropolitan Line became an express line. The Bakerloo Line in turn was replaced on May 1, 1979 by the newly opened Jubilee Line. As part of the new construction of the Wembley Stadium, the underground station was also replaced by a new building in order to be able to cope better with the rush.
business
The station currently has six London Underground tracks. Those of the Jubilee Line are arranged in the middle, flanked by the local and express tracks of the Metropolitan Line. Express trains only stop outside of rush hour . A few trains of the Jubilee Line have their terminus here and for this purpose use a turning track between the main tracks at the northern end of the station.
Web links
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.
- ↑ a b c Metropolitan Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 10, 2013 .
- ^ Suburban Development. In: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, pp. 198-203. British History Online, 1971, accessed January 10, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 0 ° 16 ′ 45.5 ″ W.