Northwick Park tube station
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Northwick Park is a London Underground station in Kenton in the London Borough of Brent on the Metropolitan line. It lies between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Preston Road stations and is in Travelcard zone 4. The station takes its name from the nearby public park, Northwick Park.
Northwick Park | |
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Location | Kenton |
Local authority | London Borough of Brent |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Fare zone | 4 |
OSI | Kenton [1] |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2018 | 3.98 million[2] |
2019 | 4.36 million[3] |
2020 | 2.43 million[4] |
2021 | 1.84 million[5] |
2022 | 3.17 million[6] |
Key dates | |
2 August 1880 | Metropolitan Railway passes through here en route to Harrow |
19 July 1908 | Line electrified |
28 June 1923 | Opened as "Northwick Park and Kenton" |
15 March 1937 | Renamed "Northwick Park" |
Other information | |
External links | |
Coordinates | 51°34′43″N 0°19′07″W |
London transport portal |
It is close to Northwick Park Hospital and the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster. Kenton station, located on the Bakerloo line and the London Overground, is within walking distance.[7] There is an official out-of-station interchange between these two stations.[1]
On the island platform, there is one of the few surviving K8 telephone kiosks. Now used for the TfL internal system, the kiosk is Grade II listed[8]