Hillingdon tube station

Hillingdon
Interior of the station entrance
Hillingdon Location of Hillingdon in Greater London
Location	Hillingdon
Local authority	London Borough of Hillingdon
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes [1]
Fare zone	6
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	1.40 million[2]
2012	1.48 million[2]
2013	1.63 million[2]
2014	1.80 million[2]
Key dates
1904	Line opened (Metropolitan)
1923	Opened (Metropolitan & District)
1933	End (District)
1933	Start (Piccadilly)
10 August 1964	Goods yard closed[3]
1992	Station rebuilt at new location
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°33′14″N 0°27′00″W / 51.5538°N 0.45°W

Hillingdon is a London Underground station in North Hillingdon in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west London.

It is on the Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines, between Ickenham and Uxbridge in Travelcard Zone 6.

History

The Metropolitan Railway (Harrow and Uxbridge Railway) constructed the line between Harrow on the Hill and Uxbridge, opened on 4 July 1904 with an intermediate station at Ruislip. At first services were operated by steam trains, but electrification was completed on 1 January 1905.

The original station building, 1933

Development in north Middlesex over the next two decades led to the opening of additional stations to encourage the growth of new residential areas. Hillingdon was the last of these to open, on 10 December 1923, with Metropolitan and District line services.

On 23 October 1933 the District line service was replaced by the Piccadilly line. Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s the station was named Hillingdon (Swakeleys)a name which is still displayed on the platform roundels.

The original station was demolished to enable the rerouting of the A40 (Western Avenue) through the site. A new station opened to the south on 6 December 1992 and received the 1994 Underground Station of the Year award.^[4] The station was identified in July 2011 as one of the London Borough of Hillingdon's locally listed buildings.^[5]

The station has a car park and is accessible for those with disabilities without using stairs or escalators. It is staffed but had its ticket office closed in July 2015.

Connections

• London Buses route U2.
• Oxford Tube X90.

References

1. "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 June 2015.
2. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
3. Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (London Underground Railway Society) (591): 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.
4. Coombs, Dan (13 June 2011). "Tube station among Hillingdon buildings to get protection". Uxbridge Gazette. Archived from the original on 2012-01-17.
5. "Hillingdon Underground Station" (PDF). London Borough of Hillingdon. July 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13.

External links

• "Departure board for Hillingdon". Transport for London.
• "Hillingon". Photographic Archive. London Transport Museum.
  • Hillingdon station, 1933
  • Hillingdon station, 1958
  • New Hillingdon station - canopy and footbridge
  • New Hillingdon station - the canopy, stairs and lift
  • "Underground Map Circa 1933 showing Hillingdon and District line connection". Clive Billson.