Hillingdon tube station
Hillingdon 
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Interior of the station entrance
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 Hillingdon
Location of Hillingdon in Greater London
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| Location | Hillingdon |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hillingdon |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 6 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2012 |
 1.48 million |
| 2013 |
1.63 million |
| 2014 |
1.80 million |
| 2015 |
1.86 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1904 | Line opened (Metropolitan) |
| 1923 | Opened (Metropolitan & District) |
| 1933 | End (District) |
| 1933 | Start (Piccadilly) |
| 10 August 1964 | Goods yard closed |
| 1992 | Station rebuilt at new location |
| Other information | |
| Lists of stations | |
| WGS84 | 51°33′14″N 0°27′00″W / 51.5538°N 0.45°WCoordinates: 51°33′14″N 0°27′00″W / 51.5538°N 0.45°W |
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Hillingdon is a London Underground station in North Hillingdon in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west London formerly Middlesex. Located between Uxbridge and Ickenham and is in Travelcard Zone 6. It is the penultimate station on the Uxbridge branch of both the Metropolitan line and the Piccadilly line. It is also the most recent station to be built on the Metropolitan line in 1992.
The Metropolitan Railway (Harrow and Uxbridge Railway) constructed the line between Harrow on the Hill and Uxbridge, opened on 4 July 1904 with an intermediate station at Ruislip. At first services were operated by steam trains, but electrification was completed on 1 January 1905.
Development in north Middlesex over the next two decades led to the opening of additional stations to encourage the growth of new residential areas. Hillingdon was the last of these to open, on 10 December 1923, with Metropolitan and District line services.
On 23 October 1933 the District line service was replaced by the Piccadilly line. Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s the station was named Hillingdon (Swakeleys), a name which is still displayed on the platform roundels.
The original station was demolished to enable the rerouting of the A40 (Western Avenue) through the site. A new station opened to the south on 6 December 1992 and received the 1994 Underground Station of the Year award. The station was identified in July 2011 as one of the London Borough of Hillingdon's locally listed buildings.
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