Finchley Road tube station
Finchley Road 
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 Finchley Road
Location of Finchley Road in Greater London
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| Location | Finchley Road |
| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| OSI |
Finchley Road & Frognal  |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2012 |
 9.37 million |
| 2013 |
9.90 million |
| 2014 |
10.06 million |
| 2015 |
 9.95 million |
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| 1879 | Opened (MR) |
| 1939 | Start (Bakerloo line) |
| 1 August 1941 | Goods yard closed |
| 1979 | End (Bakerloo line) |
| 1979 | Start (Jubilee line) |
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| WGS84 | 51°32′50″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5472°N 0.18027°WCoordinates: 51°32′50″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5472°N 0.18027°W |
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Finchley Road is a London Underground station at the corner of Finchley Road and Canfield Gardens in the London Borough of Camden, north London. It is on the Jubilee line, between West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage and on the Metropolitan line between Baker Street and Wembley Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The station is 100 yards south of the O2 Shopping Centre. It serves the Frognal and South Hampstead areas. It is also a five-minute walk from the Finchley Road & Frognal station on the London Overground's North London Line, and this is marked as an official out-of-system interchange.
The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan line) on its extension from its now closed station at Swiss Cottage (a different station from the current Swiss Cottage Jubilee line station). The station was rebuilt in 1914 with entrances incorporated into a new parade of shops.
By the mid-1930s the Metropolitan line was suffering from congestion on its main routes from north west London, caused by the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To alleviate this congestion new sections of deep tube tunnels were bored between Finchley Road and Baker Street to carry some of the traffic from the Stanmore branch and stations south of Wembley Park. These new tunnels opened on 20 November 1939 and from that date Finchley Road station was also served by Bakerloo line trains running from Baker Street using the new tunnels. The Bakerloo line services were subsequently transferred to the Jubilee line when that line commenced operation on 1 May 1979.
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