Finchley Road is a

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station at the corner of

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and Canfield Gardens in the

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. It is on the

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, between

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and

Swiss Cottage Swiss Cottage is an area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, England. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and includes Swiss Cottage tube station. Swiss Cottage lies north-northwest of Charing Cross. The ...

stations and on the

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between

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and

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stations. It is in

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. The station is 100 yards south of the

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. It serves the

Frognal Frognal is a small area of Hampstead, North West London in the London Borough of Camden. Frognal is reinforced as the name of a minor road, which goes uphill from Finchley Road and at its upper end is in the west of Hampstead village. History ...

and

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areas. It is also a five-minute walk from the Finchley Road & Frognal station on the

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, and this is marked as an official out-of-system interchange. The station is in a cutting covered by a single glass and metal canopy and is the northernmost station below street level on the line.

History

Finchley Road stn northbound Jubilee look south

The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by the

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(MR, now the

) on its extension from its now closed station at

(a different station from the current

Jubilee line station). The station was rebuilt in 1914 with entrances incorporated into a new parade of shops. By the mid-1930s the Metropolitan line was suffering from congestion on its main routes from north-west London, caused by the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To alleviate this congestion new sections of deep tube tunnels were bored between Finchley Road and Baker Street to carry some of the traffic from the

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branch and stations south of Wembley Park. These new tunnels opened on 20 November 1939 and from that date Finchley Road station was also served by

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trains running from Baker Street using the new tunnels. The Bakerloo line services were subsequently transferred to the

when that line commenced operation on 1 May 1979. There is a proposal to add a new entrance to the station from the site of the

, as a part of the proposal to redevelop the site for housing.

Services

Finchley Road stn southbound Jubilee look north

Finchley Road Underground Station geograph-2987904-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Finchley Road is served by London Underground Jubilee and Metropolitan line services. The Jubilee line, which is a stopping (or local) service, operates a service frequency of 16 tph (trains per hour) between

and Stratford. The Metropolitan line offers "stopping services" (with some peak hour "fast" and "semi-fast" services) (no Metropolitan line services stop at stations between Finchley Road and Wembley Park) from

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and

to the north-west of London and certain stations in the

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Connections

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routes 13,

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, 187, 268,

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and night route N113 serve the station.

References

External links

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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