West Hampstead is a

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station in

West Hampstead West Hampstead is an area in the London Borough of Camden in north-west London. Mainly defined by the railway stations of the same name, it is situated between Childs Hill to the north, Frognal and Hampstead to the north-east, Swiss Cottage to ...

. It is located on West End Lane between Broadhurst Gardens and Blackburn Road and is situated in

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. It is on the

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between Kilburn and

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stations. It is from West Hampstead station on the

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and from West Hampstead Thameslink station. Metropolitan line trains also pass through the station, but do not usually stop.

History

The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by the

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(now the

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) when it extended its tracks from

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. The station acted as the temporary terminus of the branch until it was further extended to

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on 24 November that year. The original station had two tracks with facing platforms; the booking office was to the south of the current surface building location with separate stairs to each platform. Consequential to the extension of the Great Central Railway displacing the Metropolitan Railway toward the north, this construction was replaced by an island platform overlapping the position of the previous Up platform. On 20 November 1939, most stopping services were transferred to the

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when it took over operations on the Stanmore branch; at this time the platform was rebuilt in the Underground's standard style, but the station building was retained. Stopping services were transferred to the Jubilee line on 1 May 1979. Metropolitan line services run past the station on their own tracks either side of the Jubilee Line having not served the station (a few trains in the early morning and late at night) since the connection between the Metropolitan and Jubilee Lines at Finchley Road was removed as part of the preparation for automatic operation of the Jubilee Line.

Access and interchanges

Due to stairs leading from the ticket hall to the platform, the station is not accessible. Facilities include an automatic ticket machine, two quick ticket machines, a ticket booth, countdown timers, a waiting room and both male and female toilets. Most maps show the three stations as connections. Through ticketing is allowed.

Development

There have been proposals since before 1990 for a new

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linking all three stations in the area and additionally serving two further lines that currently pass through the site. In 2008 it was proposed that the

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could serve the station.

Image gallery

Image:West Hampstead tube station northbound platform 2005-12-10.jpg, West Hampstead tube station northbound platform ''December 2005'' Image:West Hampstead Station - geograph.org.uk - 415221.jpg, West Hampstead tube station seen through the anti vandal grill on the footbridge between Blackburn Road and Broadhurst Gardens, 27 April 2007. Image:West Hampstead tube stn westbound look east.JPG, West Hampstead tube station westbound platform looking east, 1 September 2008. Image:West Hampstead 180408 d.adkins.jpg, West Hampstead tube station, looking towards Kilburn, 18 April 2008. Image:West Hampstead 006.jpg, West Hampstead tube station main entrance, 18 April 2009. Image:West Hampstead. Waiting Room.jpg, Waiting Room.

Connections

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routes

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, 328 and

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serve the station.

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