Willesden Junction railway station
Willesden Junction  
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 Willesden Junction
Location of Willesden Junction in Greater London
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| Location | Harlesden |
| Local authority | London Borough of Brent |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | WIJ |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Number of platforms | 5 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 2 and 3 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2009 |
 3.500 million |
| 2012 |
 3.99 million |
| 2013 |
4.17 million |
| 2014 |
4.50 million |
| 2015 |
4.60 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
3.113 million |
| 2012–13 |
3.652 million |
| – interchange | 2.319 million |
| 2013–14 |
3.964 million |
| – interchange |
2.624 million |
| 2014–15 |
4.802 million |
| – interchange |
2.712 million |
| 2015–16 |
6.243 million |
| – interchange |
2.600 million |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | London & North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London Midland & Scottish Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1837 | Tracks laid |
| 1866 | Opened |
| 1915 | Started (Watford DC line & BS&WR |
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| WGS84 | 51°31′58″N 0°14′44″W / 51.53266°N 0.24547°WCoordinates: 51°31′58″N 0°14′44″W / 51.53266°N 0.24547°W |
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Willesden Junction is a Network Rail station in Harlesden, north-west London, UK. It is served by both London Overground and the Bakerloo line of the London Underground.
The station developed on three contiguous sites:
In 1896 staff totalled 271, including 79 porters, 58 signalmen (in 14 signal boxes) and 58 shunters and yard foremen. They issued 1,006,886 tickets to passengers in 1896, up from 530,300 in 1886. Many of them were housed in what is now the Old Oak Lane conservation area, built by the LNWR in 1889 and which included an Institute, reading room and church.
The main-line platforms were numbered from the south side (including one or two on the Kensington route) followed by the high level platforms and then the DC line platforms which thus had the highest numbers. Later the surviving platforms were re-numbered.
There are no platforms on the West Coast Main Line, which is separated from the low-level station by the approach road to Willesden Depot which lies immediately south-east of the station.
The high-level (HL) station consists of an island platform rebuilt in 1956, with faces as platforms 4 and 5, which are roughly at the level of Old Oak Lane to the west of the station, serving the NLL and the West London Line; some trains on the latter reverse in a central turnback siding on the NLL to the east of the station, this opened in 2011. Both platforms have been extended across the DC line to accommodate 4-coach class 378 trains. The HL station previously had a third platform on the eastern side which was used by services to/from Earls Court. There is another turnback siding further east which was previously used; it was laid in the late 1990s to allow Royal Mail trains to reach the Royal Mail depot at Stonebridge Park.
The low-level station, at the level of the area to the south, is an Edwardian island platform, with outer faces as platforms 1 and 3 and northern bay platform bay as platform 2, the southern bay now has no track. In October 2014 the DC line was closed temporarily between Wembley Central and Queens Park reportedly by Network Rail (London Overground) to allow platform 2 to be extended further west as a through platform. Most of the original and later platform buildings were demolished when platform 2 was extended in preparation for longer Class 378 trains and provision of a new footbridge and lift in 1999.
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