Northwood tube station

Northwood is a station on the Watford branch of the Metropolitan line, in Travelcard Zone 6. The station is located just off the main road through the town, Green Lane. The line serves as the sole continuous link between the town of Northwood and London, key for a region known as Metro-Land.

Northwood
Northwood Location of Northwood in Greater London
Location	Northwood
Local authority	London Borough of Hillingdon
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	6
London Underground annual entry and exit
2014	2.46 million[1]
2015	2.48 million[1]
2016	2.49 million[1]
2017	3.04 million[1]
2018	2.58 million[2]
Key dates
1 September 1887	Opened
14 November 1966	Goods yard closed[3]
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
WGS84	51.6109°N 0.4244°W / 51.6109; -0.4244
London transport portal

The station is located on a four-track section of the Metropolitan line. The two platforms are on the slow lines. There are no platforms on the fast lines, as fast services do not stop at this station.

History

The station was opened on 1 September 1887 on the Metropolitan Railway's extension from the previous terminus at Pinner, en route to Rickmansworth. Northwood was rebuilt in the 1960s so that platforms would be on the Watford slow lines rather than the Amersham fast lines.[4] In the original Crossrail plans, Crossrail would have connected to Aylesbury via the fast lines from Harrow to Rickmansworth and Northwood would have been an interchange with two extra platforms (meaning that the fast platforms at Moor Park would have been demolished) built on the fast lines. However, plans for this were dropped during the late 1990s.

Northwood used to be a terminus for many Metropolitan trains, similar to the status of Harrow-on-the-Hill and Neasden, due to the placement of two sidings. Nowadays when there are engineering works or delays near Northwood, trains would turn around there. The goods depot has been demolished and the station car park has replaced it. The sidings were also a role to load A60/A62 Stock and C69/C77 Stock trains onto lorries, where they went to scrap.[5][6]

Services

In the northbound direction the station is served by trains to Watford (4tph), Amersham (2tph) and Chesham (2tph) trains (at peak times, 'fast' trains do not stop at stations between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Moor Park). In the southbound direction off-peak services generally run 4tph to Baker Street and 4tph to Aldgate.

Connections

London Buses routes 282, 331 and H11 and Non TFL route LSP route 8 serve the station.

References

1. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007-2017)" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
2. "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
3. Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News. London Underground Railway Society (591): 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.
4. http://www.ltmcollection.org/photos/photo/photo.html?_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=y5yTrF7Pnvs&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=Northwood&_IXFIRST_=49&IXenlarge=i00006wy
5. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CyP_Kwi486I
6. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwEbT4-sXdU&t=130s

Gallery

• 
  Northbound platform looking north
• 
  Northbound platform looking south
• 
  Station platform roundel

External links

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Moor Park towards Amersham, Chesham or Watford		Metropolitan line		Northwood Hills towards Baker Street or Aldgate