Willesden Junction station

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**Willesden Junction**

Management
Managed by	Silverlink
Location
Place	Harlesden
Local authority	London Borough of Brent
Statistics
Annual entry/exit	2.808 million
Zone	3
Platforms in use
History
Key dates	Opened

Willesden Junction station is both a London Underground station and a railway station. It is near Willesden and is on the Bakerloo Line, between Kensal Green and Harlesden, in zone 3. Many Bakerloo Line trains terminate at Willesden Junction rather than continuing to Harrow & Wealdstone. The tube station opened on May 5, 1915.

The station's platforms are on two levels. At the higher level are platforms 4 and 5. The North London Line serves Willesden Junction High Level station: the stops on either side being Acton Central to the west and Kensal Rise to the east. Trains via the West London Line past Kensington Olympia and West Brompton to Clapham Junction also depart from the High Level station.

At the lower level (and 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 south-facing bay platforms. One of these bay platforms is numbered platform 2; the other is disused, has no track, no platform number, has a railing along the platform edge, and has a signal for platform 2 occupying the trackbed. Platforms 1 & 3 are served by London Underground Bakerloo Line trains and Silverlink Watford DC line trains; platform 2 is only occasionally used by passenger trains, and then only by Silverlink services (some North London Line services at the start and end of the day are scheduled to use this platform), although it is more commonly used for empty stock transfers between the depot and the NLL and the Gospel Oak to Barking line, all of which use a section of track leading from the Low Level station towards Kensal Rise. The northern part of the island narrows considerably, with the outer platform faces curving inwards.

Although the station is served by London Underground trains, it is operated by Silverlink (a National Rail Train Operating Company) and thus has a different feel to most LU stations. All of the station signage bears Silverlink branding; and the monitors on each platform (and dot matrix displays on platforms 1 & 3) only announce forthcoming departures of National Rail trains, as if the Bakerloo service did not exist.

There is also a major rail depot at Willesden Junction.

External links

Train times and station information for Willesden Junction station from National Rail
Street map and aerial photo of Willesden Junction station from Multimap.com

Preceding station	Underground Lines		Following station
Harlesden		Bakerloo Line	Kensal Green
	Image:British Rail.gif National Rail
Harlesden		Silverlink DC Lines	Kensal Green
Acton Central		Silverlink North London Line	Kensal Rise
Terminus		Silverlink West London Line	Shepherds Bush