Stanmore tube station

Stanmore
Stanmore Location of Stanmore in Greater London
Location	Stanmore
Local authority	Harrow
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	3
Accessible	Yes [1]
Fare zone	5
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	3.02 million[2]
2012	3.36 million[2]
2013	3.54 million[2]
2014	3.89 million[2]
Railway companies
Original company	Metropolitan Railway
Key dates
1932	Opened (Metropolitan Railway)
1936	Goods yard closed[3]
1939	Transferred to Bakerloo line
1979	Transferred to Jubilee line
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°37′10″N 0°18′10″W / 51.6194°N 0.3028°W

Stanmore is a London Underground station at Stanmore. It is the northern terminus of the Jubilee line; the previous station is Canons Park. The station is on the south side of London Road, part of the A410 and is in Travelcard Zone 5.

History

Stanmore station was opened on 10 December 1932 by the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line).^[4] The station building and those on the branch were designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect, Charles W. Clarke, in the suburban style used on the company's other post First World War stations such as those on the Watford branch.

In 1934, a proposal to extend the Metropolitan line northwards was discussed by the London Passenger Transport Board's Engineering Committee as an alternative or complementary scheme to the extension of the Northern line from Edgware. It would have required 1.2 miles of double track tunnel to reach the proposed station at Elstree South with Metropolitan line trains continuing to Bushey or Aldenham. A revision of the proposal in 1936, considered extending the Stanmore line to Elstree.^[5] The proposals were not included in the plans eventually submitted for parliamentary approval in the LPTB's New Works Programme.

Following construction of deep-level tube tunnels between Finchley Road and Baker Street, the branch and most stopping services between Finchley Road and Wembley Park were transferred to the Bakerloo line on 29 November 1939.^[4] The Bakerloo line service was transferred to the Jubilee line on 1 May 1979.^[4]

In 2005, Transport for London began the construction of a third platform at the station. While this was structurally complete as of summer 2009 it could not be opened until new signalling equipment on that part of the line was brought into use. This delayed the opening of the platform until July 2011.

Gallery

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  Platforms looking south, sidings on left, new platform on far right under construction (July 2008)

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  Platforms looking north "to buffers". New platform under construction visible to the left (photo October 2009)

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  Northward view of the new platform under construction (photo July 2008)

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  Roundel on platform

Connections

London Buses routes 142, 324 and H12 and night route N98 and non TFL route Uno Buses 615 serve the station.^[6]

See also

• Stanmore Village railway station, a main line station to the south-west closed to passengers in 1952 and completely in 1964

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. Rose, Douglas (1999) [1980]. The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History (7th ed.). Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
5. Beard, Tony (2002). By Tube Beyond Edgware. Capital Transport. pp. 21–22. ISBN 1-85414-246-1.
6. "North West London bus map" (PDF). Transport for London. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.