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station in
Stanmore Stanmore is part of the London Borough of Harrow in London. It is centred northwest of Charing Cross, lies on the outskirts of the London urban area and includes Stanmore Hill, one of the highest points of London, at high. The district, whi ...
. It is the northern terminus of the
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and the next station towards south is Canons Park. The station is on the south side of London Road, part of the A410 and is in
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.


History

Stanmore station was opened on 10 December 1932 by the
Metropolitan Railway The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex su ...
(now the
Metropolitan line The Metropolitan line, colloquially known as the Met, is a London Underground line between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in Hillingdon. Printed in magenta on the tube map, the lin ...
). The station building and those on the branch were designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect, Charles W. Clark, in the suburban style used on the company's other post
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stations such as those on the Watford branch. The introduction of fast, direct trains into London attracted commuters to the Metropolitan Railway and presented competition for the
London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally ...
, who operated a rival train service from
Stanmore Village railway station Stanmore Village railway station was a station in Stanmore, Middlesex in the south of England (now in Greater London). Originally called simply ''Stanmore'', it was opened on 18 December 1890 by the Harrow and Stanmore Railway, a company owne ...
approximately away. The slower LMS trains ran on the Stanmore branch line as far as , where they connected with London-bound services, but after 20 years of competing with the Metropolitan line, the Village station was closed by
British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four (British ra ...
ways in 1952. In 1934, a proposal to extend the Metropolitan line northwards was discussed by the
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's Engineering Committee as an alternative or complementary scheme to the
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of the
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from
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. 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
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or
Aldenham Aldenham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, north-east of Watford and southwest of Radlett. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book and is one of Hertsmere's 14 conservation areas. The village has eight pre-19th-century listed buil ...
. A revision of the proposal in 1936, considered extending the Stanmore line to
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. 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
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, the branch and most stopping services between Finchley Road and
Wembley Park Wembley Park is a district of the London Borough of Brent, England. It is roughly centred on Bridge Road, a mile northeast of Wembley town centre and northwest from Charing Cross. The name Wembley Park refers to the area that, at its broades ...
were transferred to the
Bakerloo line The Bakerloo line () is a London Underground line that goes from in suburban north-west London to in south London, via the West End. Printed in brown on the Tube map, it serves 25 stations, 15 of which are underground, over . It runs partl ...
on 29 November 1939. The Bakerloo line service was transferred to the Jubilee line on 1 May 1979. In 2005, Transport for London began the construction of a third platform at the station. This was structurally complete by the summer of 2009 but could not be brought into use until new signalling equipment on that part of the line had been commissioned, the platform opening to use in July 2011.


Services

The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: * 12tph to Stratford The peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: * 18tph to Stratford * 3tph to North Greenwich
Night Tube The Night Tube and London Overground Night Service, often referred to simply as Night Tube, is a service pattern on the London Underground ("Tube") and London Overground systems which provides through-the-night services on Friday and Saturday ...
services: * 6 tph Stanmore – Stratford


Connections

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routes 142,
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and H12 and night route N98 serve the station.


See also

*
Stanmore Village railway station Stanmore Village railway station was a station in Stanmore, Middlesex in the south of England (now in Greater London). Originally called simply ''Stanmore'', it was opened on 18 December 1890 by the Harrow and Stanmore Railway, a company owne ...
, a main line station to the south-west closed to passengers in 1952 and completely in 1964


References

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