Harrow & Wealdstone station
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 Harrow & Wealdstone
Location of Harrow & Wealdstone in Greater London
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| Location | Wealdstone |
| Local authority | London Borough of Harrow |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | HRW |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Number of platforms | 6 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2009 |
 3.893 million |
| 2012 |
4.45 million |
| 2013 |
 4.66 million |
| 2014 |
4.51 million |
| 2015 |
5.00 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
2.689 million |
| 2012–13 |
2.673 million |
| 2013–14 |
2.853 million |
| 2014–15 |
3.088 million |
| 2015–16 |
3.930 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1837 | Opened (L&BR) |
| 1890 | Opened Stanmore Branch Line (L&NwR) |
| 1917 | Started (Bakerloo line) |
| 1952 | Train crash |
| 1964 | Closed Stanmore Branch Line (BR) |
| 1982 | Ended (Bakerloo line) |
| 1984 | Restarted as terminus (Bakerloo line) |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | East side/bridge West side/platforms |
| Listing grade | II |
| Entry number | 1253982 1253986 |
| Added to list | 6 September 1989 13 July 1990 |
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| WGS84 | 51°35′33″N 0°20′08″W / 51.5925°N 0.3355°WCoordinates: 51°35′33″N 0°20′08″W / 51.5925°N 0.3355°W |
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Harrow & Wealdstone is a interchange station in Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow, Greater London. It is served by London Overground, London Midland, Southern and London Underground services. The station is located between The Bridge, Wealdstone, (which joins the southern end of High Street) and Sandridge Close, Harrow with entrances leading to both.
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash of 1952, killing 112 people, occurred at the station. It remains Britain's worst peacetime rail disaster.
The station was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) as Harrow on 20 July 1837 in what was then rural Middlesex. At the time the station was built, the area was fields and the nearest large settlement was at Harrow on the Hill about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south. Wealdstone was a collection of houses at the north end of what is now Wealdstone High Street, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the station. The station buildings on the south west (Harrow) side of the station are the older part of the station, located beside what were the fast lines until the platforms were used for the later Euston to Watford DC Line and the main line tracks were re-routed through the previous slow line platforms and new platforms (numbers 5 and 6) to the north east; a new, larger, station building was also erected on this Wealdstone side of the station. The station footbridge was originally constructed with a full-height central barrier with passengers using the "London" side and railway and postal staff using the "country" side to move goods and mail via lifts which were removed in the early 1970s, leaving two parcels elevators serving the DC line platforms for the remaining postal traffic.
On 18 December 1890, a short branch line was opened by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR, successor to the L&BR) to Stanmore to the north-east of the main line. In 1932 an intermediate halt was constructed as Belmont to serve the developing residential areas locally. The train was known affectionately as the "Belmont Rattler".
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