Kilburn High Road railway station

Kilburn High Road railway station is a London Overground station on the London Euston to Watford DC Line near the south end of the Kilburn High Road, London NW6 in the London Borough of Camden.

Kilburn High Road
Kilburn High Road
Location of Kilburn High Road in Greater London
LocationKilburn
Local authorityLondon Borough of Camden
Managed byLondon Overground
OwnerNetwork Rail
Station codeKBN
DfT categoryE
Number of platforms2
Fare zone2
National Rail annual entry and exit
2015–16 0.924 million[1]
2016–17 0.929 million[1]
2017–18 0.852 million[1]
2018–19 0.815 million[1]
2019–20 0.752 million[1]
Key dates
1852Opened
Other information
External links
WGS8451.5374°N 0.1919°W / 51.5374; -0.1919
 London transport portal

History

Kilburn High Road railway station opened in 1852 as Kilburn & Maida Vale station by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). At the beginning of the 20th century the station had platforms on all four lines out of Euston but with the construction of the Euston to Watford DC Line the local service took over the slow main line platforms, the slow (semi-fast) main line services were diverted through what had been the fast main line platforms and the fast main lines were moved southward. The slow (previously fast) main line platforms were almost entirely demolished during the electrification of the West Coast Main Line, with the last platform building disappearing in the 1980s when the LNWR platform canopies were removed. The current footbridge and street-level buildings are not so much the result of modernisation but of three or four major fires which have occurred here since the early 1970s.

  • Kilburn and the High Roads, a band featuring Ian Dury, produced an album, Handsome, in 1975.
  • The station is mentioned in a song by Flogging Molly, "The Kilburn High Road", which appears on their 2002 album Drunken Lullabies.

Services

The off-peak service on all days of the week in trains per hour is:

Preceding station   London Overground   Following station
Queen's Park
Watford DC Line
towards Euston

Use by London Underground

The station is occasionally used as a reversing point on the London Underground network by out-of-service Bakerloo line trains when they cannot enter the LU platforms at Queens Park station due to planned engineering work or failures, and/or are prevented from reversing in the Up DC line platform there. The fourth rail (bonded to the traction current return rail) continues towards Kilburn High Road to permit these movements, but the carrying of passengers to Kilburn High Road by LU tube trains is not permitted as the platform height is matched to Network Rail trains (platforms on this line north of Queens Park station are positioned at a "transition" height which is higher than that for normal LU platforms and lower than NR platforms). There are also one or two "rusty rail" journeys made by LU trains each day to keep the fourth rail clean for the relatively infrequent unscheduled diverted LU trains. Kilburn High Road appears on internal London Underground (LU) maps for this purpose.

Connections

London Buses routes 16, 31, 32, 98, 206, 316, 328, 332 and 632 and night routes N16, N28, N31, and N98 serve the station.

References
  1. "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
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