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Willesden Green
	Main building viewed from the south-east
Location	Willesden Green
Local authority	Brent
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Fare zone	2 and 3
LUL 2005 usage	7.304 million
LUL 2007 usage	8.516 million
1879	Opened
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
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Willesden Green tube station is a London Underground station in Willesden. It is served by the Jubilee Line and is between Dollis Hill and Kilburn. Metropolitan Line trains also pass through the station, but do not usually stop. The station is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.

[edit] History

The station opened on 24 November 1879 on the Metropolitan Railway (later the Metropolitan Line). From 20 November 1939 it also served the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo Line, with Met services being withdrawn the following year. It transferred to the Jubilee Line in 1979. The station still has platforms on the Metropolitan line, but these are not in regular use and are usually locked to passengers. Apart from a few early-morning and late-evening services, they are only used when the Jubilee line is inactive.

The main station buildings, which date from the reconstruction of 1925, are fine examples of the work of C W Clark, the Metropolitan Railway's architect, who used this style of marble white faience for several 'central' area stations. The ticket hall interior, which retains much of the original green tesserae mosaic tiling, is a rare survival and was one of the reasons that led to the station being made a Grade 2 Listed Building in December 2006.

Willesden Green is one of the few stations on the southern section of the former Metropolitan Mainline to still have its original platform buildings intact and its architecture is typical for a station serving a medium sized town. Baker Street and Neasden are the other stations to have its platform buildings intact. The line between Finchley Road and Harrow-on-the-Hill was quadrupled between 1914-1916, and many intermediate stations had to be rebuilt to enable the fast lines to be built.

A goods yard, which was in use until 1966, was located to the north of the station. From 1933, when the London Transport took over service, trains from the north would be run by the LNER to LT Neasden works where they would be then hauled by LT steam locos to Willesden.

There are frequent Jubilee Line trains from central London which terminate at Willesden Green.

[edit] Layout

Side Platform Disused Southbound Platform 4
⇒ Metropolitan services - Not stopping ⇒
⇒ Jubilee towards Stratford ⇒
Southbound Platform 3 Island Platform Northbound Platform 2
⇐ Jubilee towards Stanmore ⇐
⇐ Metropolitan services - Not stopping ⇐
Northbound Platform 1 Side Platform Disused