South Kenton is a station in Kenton, north-west

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. The station is served by suburban services operated by

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on the

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and

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on the

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. In the Bakerloo line, the station lies between Kenton and

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stations. It is located between The Link in the Sudbury Court Estate of

, and Windermere Grove in Kenton, in the

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postal area.

History

The station opened on 3 July 1933 with access from both sides of the railway via a footbridge to the single

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serving only the

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; this footbridge (which started at the bottom of the embankment) was later replaced by a pedestrian tunnel, cutting out a long climb for passengers entering the station. The station designed by the architect

William Henry Hamlyn William Henry Hamlyn FRIBA (16 February 1889 – 1968) was an architect based in England noted for his buildings for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. He was born in Wigan in Lancashire. He studied architecture with Reginald Wynn Owen in ...

was built in a more modern "concrete and glass" style construction including a "streamlined" waiting room rather than the brick and woodwork LNWR stations elsewhere on the DC line.

The station today

The station is an

and Bakerloo line train doors are not level with it. Therefore, there is a downward step to the train from the platform. The ticket office is at platform level and occupies the north end of the streamlined 1933 building. It is one of the very few stations served by London Underground which has no ticket gates and due to the restrictive layout here there are no plans for these to be installed in the immediate future. There is no wheelchair access.

Services

There are 6tph on the Bakerloo line heading southbound towards Central London and

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and northbound to Harrow & Wealdstone. There are 4tph on the

service to

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southbound and to

Watford Junction Watford Junction is a railway station that serves Watford, Hertfordshire. The station is on the West Coast Main Line (WCML), 17 miles 34 chains from London Euston and the Abbey Line, a branch line to St Albans. Journeys to London take between 16 ...

northbound.

Connections

London Buses route 223 serve the station.

References

External links

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