Kingsbury is a
London Underground
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The ...
station in northwest
London
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, England. It is on the
Jubilee line
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between
Queensbury and
Wembley Park
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The name Wembley Park refers to the area that, at its broades ...
stations, in
Zone 4, in the borough of
Brent.
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
It was opened on 10 December 1932 as part of the Stanmore branch of the
Metropolitan Railway
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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
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and was later transferred to the
Bakerloo line
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in 1939 then to the
Jubilee line
The Jubilee line is a London Underground line that runs between in east London and in the suburban north-west, via the Docklands, South Bank and West End. Opened in 1979, it is the newest line on the Underground network, although some secti ...
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
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routes
79,
183
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,
204 and
324
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, night route
N98 and non-TFL route 644 serve the station.
References
Gallery
File:Kingsbury entrance.JPG, Close-up of station entrance
File:Kingsbury platform N.JPG, The northbound platform facing north
File:Kingsbury platform.JPG, The northbound platform
File:Kingsbury platform S.JPG, The northbound platform facing south
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Jubilee line stations
London Underground Night Tube stations
London Underground stations located above ground
Tube stations in the London Borough of Brent
Former Metropolitan Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1932