Trains to Willesden Junction - Station Details and further Information on Willesden Junction Train Services
Willesden Junction station is a Network Rail station in Harlesden, north-west London; it is served by both London Overground and London Underground Bakerloo line trains. It is about one mile south of the original village of Willesden and on the southern edge of the erstwhile Municipal Borough of Willesden.
There are now no platforms on the WCML, which is separated from the low level station by the approach road to Willesden Depot which is to the immediate south-east of the station.
The high-level station consists of an island platform rebuilt in 1956, with faces as platforms 4 and 5, which are at street level of the area to the north of the station, serving the NLL and the West London Line; trains on the latter reverse in a turnback siding to the east of the station on the NLL, orginally built 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 one face of the east-facing two-platform bay as platform 2, the other face of the bay now has no track. Platforms 1 and 3 are used by the Bakerloo line services, which began on 10 May 1915 and London Overground services between Euston and Watford Junction. Until May 2008 north-bound Bakerloo line trains which were to reverse at Stonebridge Park depot (2 stations further north) ran empty from Willesden Junction while the southbound service began at Stonebridge Park. This imbalance was because there were no London Underground staff beyond Willesden Junction to oversee passenger detrainment, but this changed after London Underground took over the staffing of stations on the line, including Stonebridge Park, from Silverlink in November 2007, and trains bound for Stonebridge Park depot now terminate at Stonebridge Park station. Normally only the first and last NLL trains of the day, which start or terminate here, use the bay platform, though it is used for empty stock transfers between the depot and the North London Line and the Gospel Oak to Barking line. |