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Willesden Junction
Location
Place	Harlesden
Local authority	London Borough of Brent
Operations
Managed by	London Overground
Platforms in use	5
National Rail
Station code	WIJ
Annual entry/exit	1.976 million ***
Transport for London
Zone	3 (2/3 from 2008)
Annual entry/exit	2.927 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1866
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
*** based on sales of tickets in 2005/06 financial year which end or originate at this station from Office of Rail Regulation station usage statistics
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Willesden Junction station is a Network Rail station in Harlesden, north-west London; it is served by both London Overground and London Underground Bakerloo Line trains. It is about one mile south of the original area from which it took its name but on the southern edge of the now-defunct Municipal Borough of Willesden.

Contents 1 History 2 The station today 3 Services 4 External links 5 Notes and references

The station has had three main stages of development:

• The London and Birmingham Railway (now the West Coast Main Line) has run through the site since 1837. A main line station was opened by the London & North Western Railway on 1 September 1866, but demolished after passenger services were withdrawn in 1962 in preparation for the electrification of the West Coast Main Line (WCML). Various intentions have since been announced (but so far not carried out) to restore platforms to permit outer-suburban services to call at Willesden Junction and suitable gaps for platforms between lines still remain.
• The North London Line (NLL) station, built across the WCML at a right angle. This underwent radical alteration and repositioning during the WCML electrification.
• The station serving the "New Line". This "Willesden New Station" was built to the north of the main line and originally had two (outer) through platforms and two (inner) bay platforms at the London end. Bakerloo line services on the New Line began on 10 May 1915.

The original platform numbering started on the main line platforms with the higher numbers continuing onto the NLL and DC line, remaining unchanged on those lines for some years after the main line platforms were removed.

The basic two-level arrangement (now without the main line platforms) remains.

At high level (street level relative to most of the surrounding area) are platforms 4 and 5, serving the North London Line and the West London Line; trains on the latter service reverse in a siding to the east of the station on the NLL.

At low level, roughly perpendicular to the high level platforms, are platforms 1-3. These consist of an island platform, the outer faces of which are platforms 1 & 3, containing two east-opening bay platforms. One of these bay platforms is platform 2; the other is disused, and has no track, no platform number, a railing along the platform edge, and a signal for platform 2 occupying the trackbed. Platforms 1 & 3 are served by the main Bakerloo Line and London Overground services; platform 2 is too short for Bakerloo Line trains and is used only occasionally by London Overground services at the start and end of the day. Bakerloo line trains that terminate at Willesden Junction continue to Stonebridge Park depot (2 stations further north of the station), where they reverse. The southbound service resumes from Stonebridge Park. this arrangement is due to London Underground staff being stationed at Willesden Junction to oversee the detrainment prior to the train departing empty. The bay is more commonly used for empty stock transfers between the depot and the North London Line and the Gospel Oak to Barking line, which use the link from the low level station to Kensal Rise. The northern part of the island narrows considerably, with the platform faces curving inwards.

There are currently no platforms on the WCML, which is now separated from the low level station by the approach road to Willesden Depot which is to the immediate south-east of the station.

The typical off-peak train service pattern per hour comprises:

• 3 to London Euston
• 9 to Elephant & Castle^[1]
• 9 to Harrow & Wealdstone^[1]
• 3 to Watford Junction (via Harrow & Wealdstone)
• 4 to Richmond
• 4 to Stratford
• 2 to Clapham Junction

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Harlesden towards Harrow & Wealdstone		Bakerloo line		Kensal Green towards Elephant & Castle
London Overground
Harlesden towards Watford Junction		Watford DC Line		Kensal Green towards London Euston
Acton Central towards Richmond		North London Line		Kensal Rise towards Stratford
Terminus		West London Line		Kensington (Olympia) towards Clapham Junction

When Shepherd's Bush opens

Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
Terminus		West London Line		Shepherd's Bush towards Clapham Junction

• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06
• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Bakerloo Line train at Willesden Junction station, 1917
  • Willesden Junction station entrance, 1928
• Train times and station information for Willesden Junction railway station from National Rail (Station code: WIJ)

• Willesden Junction station is at coordinates 51°31′58″N 0°14′44″W / 51.532668, -0.245475Coordinates: 51°31′58″N 0°14′44″W / 51.532668, -0.245475

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