Queen's Park station (England)

For Paignton Queen's Park station, see Dartmouth Steam Railway.

For TTC Queen's Park station, see Queen's Park station (Toronto).

Queen's Park is an interchange station in London. It is on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground. On the Bakerloo line, the station is between Kensal Green and Kilburn Park stations. On the Lioness line, it is between Kensal Green and Kilburn High Road stations.

Queen's Park
A Bakerloo line train at the station
Queen's Park Location of Queen's Park in Greater London
Location	Queen's Park
Local authority	London Borough of Brent
Grid reference	TQ245832
Managed by	London Underground[1]
Owner	Network Rail
Station code(s)	QPW
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	6 (4 operational)[a]
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	5.41 million[2]
2020	2.78 million[3]
2021	2.38 million[4]
2022	4.15 million[5]
2023	4.37 million[6]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	4.228 million[7]
2020–21	1.674 million[7]
2021–22	3.378 million[7]
2022–23	3.854 million[7]
2023–24	4.183 million[7]
Railway companies
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 June 1879 (1879-06-02)	Opened as Queen's Park (West Kilburn)
11 February 1915	Bakerloo line service introduced
December 1954	Renamed Queen's Park
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51.5339°N 0.2063°W / 51.5339; -0.2063
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The station lies at the southern end of Salusbury Road, near the south-east corner of the public park from which the area now known as Queen's Park has taken its modern name. It is located in Travelcard Zone 2.

History

Location of Queen's Park station

The station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879, on the main line from London to Birmingham.^[8]

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915.^[9] On 10 May 1915, Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC line tracks shared with the LNWR.^[9]

London Midland previously made three operational calls daily, which were not found in public timetables. As of the December 2013 timetable these stops no longer exist, with no main line services calling at the station.^[10][11]

Station layout

Cross-platform interchange of the Bakerloo and Lioness lines at Queen's Park station.

All platforms at Queen's Park station are on the surface, the station being covered by a glazed roof. The slow main line platforms (platforms 5 and 6) are reserved for use during engineering work or partial line closures. The Bakerloo line tunnel portals are about 300 metres (980 ft) to the east of the station. The two inner station tracks, platforms 3 (westbound) and 2 (eastbound), split into four tracks in a carriage shed to the west of the station. Bakerloo line services starting or ending at Queen's Park normally do so in the two centre tracks of the four-track carriage shed. Bakerloo line trains joining or leaving the Watford DC line tracks (also used by the Lioness line) do so by passing through the carriage shed on one of the two outer tracks, which merge into the Watford DC line, the latter of which becomes the station's outer tracks. Around a third of Bakerloo line trains terminate at Queen's Park with others continuing onward to Harrow & Wealdstone.

All platforms are accessed by stairs and although there is local pressure for step-free access there are no firm plans for lifts or escalators to be installed. The stairs are all behind the ticket barriers.

Services

v t e London Overground
Cheshunt Theobalds Grove Enfield Town Turkey Street Romford Bush Hill Park Southbury Emerson Park Upminster Edmonton Green Silver Street Chingford White Hart Lane Highams Park Watford Junction Bruce Grove Wood Street Watford Seven Sisters Walthamstow Central High Street Harringay Blackhorse Road Walthamstow Queen's Road Bushey Green Lanes Carpenders Park Crouch Hill South Tottenham St. James Leyton Midland Road Hatch End Upper () Stamford Hill Street Leytonstone Headstone Lane Holloway Stoke Newington Clapton High Road Harrow & Kentish Town West Rectory Road Wanstead Park () Wealdstone Gospel Oak Camden Road () Hackney Woodgrange Park () Kenton () Caledonian Road Canonbury Downs Barking South Kenton & Barnsbury Barking Riverside () North Highbury & Islington Dalston Kingsland Hackney Central Wembley Hampstead Heath Dalston Wembley Finchley Road & Frognal () Junction London Fields Central West Hampstead ( ) Haggerston Cambridge Homerton Stonebridge Brondesbury Hoxton Heath Hackney Wick Park Brondesbury Park Shoreditch High Street Bethnal Green Stratford Harlesden Kensal Rise Kensal Green Liverpool Whitechapel Willesden Queen's Park Street Shadwell () Junction Kilburn High Road Wapping South Hampstead Rotherhithe Shepherd's Bush () Euston () Canada Water Kensington (Olympia) Surrey Quays West Brompton Battersea Park Imperial Wharf () (limited service) New Cross Clapham Queens Road Peckham New Cross Gate Junction Peckham Rye Brockley Acton Central Wandsworth Road Denmark Hill Honor Oak Park South Acton () Clapham Forest Hill Gunnersbury High Street Sydenham Kew Gardens Richmond Crystal Palace Penge West Anerley Norwood Junction West Croydon ()
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Station National Rail Liberty line Accessible station Thameslink Lioness line Interchange station Elizabeth line Mildmay line Accessible interchange Docklands Light Railway Suffragette line Internal interchange London Underground Weaver line Out-of-station interchange London Trams Windrush line (   ) Nearby interchange London River Services

Queen's Park is served by the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground. The current off-peak service is:

London Underground (Bakerloo line)

• 16 tph to Elephant & Castle
• 4 tph to Stonebridge Park
• 4 tph to Harrow & Wealdstone

8 tph from Elephant & Castle terminate at Queen's Park.

London Overground (Lioness line)

• 4 tph to Euston
• 4 tph to Watford Junction

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Kensal Green towards Harrow & Wealdstone		Bakerloo line		Kilburn Park towards Elephant & Castle
Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Kensal Green towards Watford Junction		Lioness line Watford DC line		Kilburn High Road towards Euston
Historical railways
Willesden Junction		London and North Western Railway West Coast Main Line		Kilburn High Road

Connections

London Buses routes 6, 36, 187, 206, and 316 serve the station.

Future improvements

Great North Western Railway was given permission to run six trains per day from London to Blackpool North stopping at Queen's Park from 2018, but these plans have yet to come to fruition.^[12]

Queen's Park may be the service's terminus, as stopping patterns including permission to run the service beyond Queen's Park to London Euston are dependent upon future infrastructural work to the West Coast Main Line.^[12]

Notes

1. Platforms 5 and 6 at Queen's Park have no regular service.