Queens Park Station (QPW)

Address: Salusbury Road, West Kilburn, London NW6 6NL
Opened: 2nd June 1879
Station Code: QPW
Fare Zone: 2

London Overground Line(s) Served:

Watford DC Lines

Service Pattern(s):

4 trains per hour to London Euston
4 trains per hour to Watford Junction

London Underground Line(s) Served:

Bakerloo Line

Service Pattern:

12 trains per hour to Elephant & Castle
4 trains per hour to Harrow & Wealdstone
4 trains per hour to Stonebridge Park.
4 Northbound trains per hour terminate here

Interchange(s)

None

Station History

Queens Park Station was opened by the London & Northwestern Railway on their mainline from London to Birmingham on 2nd June 1879.

With the L&NWR ‘New Line’ being constructed from London to Watford in 1912, two new platforms were provided to accommodate the new services.

Services through the station were bolstered when the London Underground Bakerloo Line extended here, arriving on 11th February 1915 before being extended to Willesden Junction on 18th May.

The mainline platforms at the station closed on 1st January 1917 but were kept intact, seeing occasional use and are still extant today.

Following the passing into law of the Railways Act 1921, the London & North Western was amalgamated with other companies to become part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

This was followed by the passing of the Transport Act 1947 that saw the ‘Big Four’ railway companies of the time Nationalised to become British Railways. The line and its services were taken up by the Midland Region on 1st January 1948.

Management changes saw the station pass to the London & Southeastern business unit upon sectorisation in 1982, relaunched as Network Southeast on 10 June 1986.

Privatisation of the railways saw the station and line become part of National Express under their Silverlink Trains subsidiary in 1993.

The final change of management for the line and its stations came in November 2007 when Transport for London undertook operation of the services under their London Overground brand, while station management was assumed by London Underground.