Kilburn High Road railway station
Kilburn High Road is a London Overground station on the Lioness line, situated near the south end of the Kilburn High Road in the London Borough of Camden.
History
Kilburn High Road railway station was opened in 1852 as Kilburn and Maida Vale station by the London and North Western Railway on its existing line out of Euston station, to serve the newly developed suburbs of Kilburn and Maida Vale to the south. In the Victorian era it became an important commuter station served by North London Railway trains running into Broad Street station.At the beginning of the 20th century the station had platforms on all four lines of the West Coast Main Line out of Euston, but with the construction of the Watford DC line the local service took over the slow main line platforms, the slow main line services were diverted through what had been the fast main line platforms and the fast main lines were moved southward.
In 1915 Kilburn Park tube station was opened a little to the south on the Bakerloo Line extension from Paddington, drawing its passengers from a similar catchment area to Kilburn High Road station and providing a quicker connection with the West End.
The slow main line platforms were almost entirely demolished during the electrification of the West Coast Main Line, with the last platform building disappearing in the 1980s when the LNWR platform canopies were removed. The current footbridge and street-level buildings are not so much the result of modernisation but of three or four major fires which have occurred here since the early 1970s.
Services
The off-peak service on all days of the week in trains per hour is:- 4 tph to
- 4 tph to