Kilburn High Road railway station

Kilburn High Road
Kilburn High Road Location of Kilburn High Road in Greater London
Location	Kilburn
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	KBN
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
National Rail annual entry and exit
2009–10	0.730 million[1]
2010–11	1.274 million[1]
2011–12	1.658 million[1]
2012–13	1.643 million[1]
2013–14	1.956 million[1]
Key dates
1852	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
London Transport portal UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°32′15″N 0°11′31″W / 51.5374°N 0.1919°W

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.

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.

In popular culture

• 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 typical off-peak service (including weekends) is three trains per hour to London Euston, and three trains per hour to Watford Junction, calling at all stations.^[2]

Use by London Underground

The station is occasionally used as a reversing point on the London Underground network by passengerless Bakerloo line trains when they are unable to enter the LU platforms at Queens Park tube station due to scheduled 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 to Kilburn High Road to permit these manoeuvres but the carrying of passengers to Kilburn High Road by LU tube trains is not permitted as the platform height is matched to NR 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 and 632 and night routes N16, N28 and N31 serve the station.

References

1. "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 60 (Network Rail)

External links

• Train times and station information for Kilburn High Road railway station from National Rail