Northwick Park tube station
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Northwick Park is a London Underground station on the Metropolitan Line. It is in Zone 4, and lies between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Preston Road.
It is served by 'slow' trains (fast trains are non-stop between Wembley Park and Harrow-on-the-Hill).
It is close to Northwick Park Hospital, the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster and the suburb of Kenton with Kenton station being on the Bakerloo Line and Silverlink and mainline services from Euston. It can be used as an interchange between the Metropolitan Line and Bakerloo Line.
Events
- 2nd August 1880: Metropolitan Railway passes through here en route to Harrow
- 19th July 1908: line electrified
- 28th June 1923: station opened as "Northwick Park and Kenton"
- 15th March 1937: renamed "Northwick Park"
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