Kingsbury tube station

For the former railway station in Warwickshire, see Kingsbury railway station.

Kingsbury is a London Underground station in northwest London, England. It is on the Jubilee line between Queensbury and Wembley Park stations, in Zone 4, in the borough of Brent.

Kingsbury
Entrance on Kingsbury Road
Kingsbury Location of Kingsbury in Greater London
Location	Kingsbury
Local authority	London Borough of Brent
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2018	4.73 million^[1]
2019	4.55 million^[2]
2020	3.24 million^[3]
2021	2.07 million^[4]
2022	3.37 million^[5]
Railway companies
Original company	Metropolitan Railway
Key dates
10 December 1932	Opened
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°35′05″N 0°16′43″W / 51.5847°N 0.2786°W / 51.5847; -0.2786
London transport portal

Although now only served by deep-level tube trains, the section of line serving the station is built to surface gauge, and trains to that larger LU loading gauge occasionally pass through.

History

 

Kingsbury station, London Underground 2000.

It was opened on 10 December 1932 as part of the Stanmore branch of the Metropolitan Railway and served by that company's electric trains. After the formation of London Transport in 1933 this branch became part of the LU Metropolitan line and was later transferred to the Bakerloo line in 1939 and then to the Jubilee line in 1979. The design style is similar to that of other Metropolitan Railway buildings of the same period rather than to the concrete and glass style used at the same time by the LER group. In common with other nearby Metropolitan Railway stations (e.g. Harrow-on-the-Hill, Neasden, Queensbury) there is an element of fiction in the station name; the area is properly within the eastern extent of Kenton (Kingsbury Road at this point was originally part of the eastern end of Kenton Lane) and Kingsbury proper is actually closer to Neasden LU station.

Location

The station entrance is in a parade of shops on the south side of the A4006 Kingsbury Road, opposite Berkeley Road.

Connections

London Buses routes 79, 183, 204 and 324, night route N98, Superloop bus SL10 and non-TFL route 644 serve the station.

References

1. "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
2. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

Gallery

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kingsbury tube station.

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  Close-up of station entrance
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  Platform 1 heading northbound (facing north)
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  Kingsbury roundel
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  Platform 1 heading northbound (facing south)

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Queensbury towards Stanmore		Jubilee line		Wembley Park towards Stratford
Former services
Queensbury towards Stanmore		Metropolitan line Stanmore branch (1932–1939)		Wembley Park towards Baker Street or Aldgate
		Bakerloo line Stanmore branch (1939–1979)		Wembley Park towards Elephant & Castle