Northfields tube station

Northfields
Northfields Location of Northfields in Greater London
Location	Northfields
Local authority	London Borough of Ealing
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	3.98 million
2013	4.10 million
2014	4.21 million
2015	4.08 million
Railway companies
Original company	District Railway
Key dates
16 April 1908	Opened as Northfield (Ealing)
11 December 1911	Renamed Northfields & Little Ealing
19 May 1932	Station relocated and renamed Northfields
9 January 1933	Piccadilly line service introduced
9 October 1964	District line service ceased
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1263487
Added to list	17 May 1994
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°29′58″N 0°18′51″W / 51.4994°N 0.3142°W / 51.4994; -0.3142Coordinates: 51°29′58″N 0°18′51″W / 51.4994°N 0.3142°W / 51.4994; -0.3142

Northfields is a London Underground station in Northfields, west London. The station is on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line, between Boston Manor and South Ealing stations. It is located on Northfield Avenue (B452) near Lammas Park, and in Travelcard Zone 3.

The route through Northfields station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line), on 1 May 1883 on a line to Hounslow Town (located on Hounslow High Street but now closed). The station opened as Northfield (Ealing) on 16 April 1908. The station was renamed as Northfields and Little Ealing on 11 December 1911.

The station was rebuilt twice. As a halt, the 1908 station was quite basic and provided only rudimentary shelters for passengers. The first rebuilding took place in the 1910s (possibly in conjunction with the 1911 renaming) and the station was given a proper booking hall on the bridge over the tracks and better platform canopies.

In the early 1930s a new Northfields station was built in conjunction with the preparations for the introduction of Piccadilly line services on the Hounslow branch and the new Northfields depot that would house its trains. Located on the east side of Northfields Avenue, the new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Like the stations at Sudbury Town, Sudbury Hill, Acton Town and Oakwood that Holden also designed, Northfields station features a tall block-like ticket hall rising above a low horizontal structure that contains station offices and shops. The brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof.