Brondesbury railway station
Brondesbury is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground. It is situated on a viaduct crossing Kilburn High Road in the Brondesbury area of Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent. It is approximately south-east of station and half a mile north-west of station.
History
Brondesbury station opened on 2 January 1860 as Edgeware Road station on the Hampstead Junction Railway. It was renamed several times: Edgware Road on 1 November 1865, Edgware Road and Brondesbury on 1 January 1872, Brondesbury on 1 January 1873, Brondesbury on 1 May 1883. A signal box was in use at the station until 5 February 1962.A number of plans were put forward between 1890 and 1926 to build an underground railway along the Edgware Road, and would have seen the construction of a Tube station at Brondesbury. None of the schemes succeeded and no such line was ever built.
Services
All services at Brondesbury are operated by London Overground as part of the Mildmay line using EMUs.The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 8 tph to via
- 4 tph to
- 4 tph to