Railway lines seen from the North Circular Road at Neasden

Image: © Marathon Taken: 30 Jul 2014

The Metropolitan Railway was extended from Swiss Cottage via Kilburn to Willesden Green in 1879, and in the following year on to Harrow-on-the-Hill. As part of this ongoing extension, Neasden station was opened on 2nd August 1880 with the name Kingsbury and Neasden. The name was changed to Neasden and Kingsbury in 1910, and then changed again to its current name Neasden in 1932, the same year Kingsbury station opened. In 1894 the Metropolitan Railway added a second pair of tracks between Finchley Road and Harrow; these now convey Chiltern Line trains out of Marylebone. Between 1913 and 1915 the Metropolitan Railway added two more tracks between Finchley Road and Wembley Park. On 20th November 1939, two of these tracks were transferred to the Bakerloo line when it took over the stopping service on the opening of the Stanmore branch. Stopping services were transferred to the Jubilee line on 1st May 1979. This is the view from the North Circular Road which is carried over all these lines on a viaduct. Left to right the lines are a spur into Neasden Depot on the other side of the North Circular Road, the up Metropolitan and Jubilee lines, the down Jubilee and Metropolitan lines, the up and down Chiltern lines, and, just out of sight to the right, a spur on to the Dudding Hill freight line and a siding into the Wembley Super Urban Plant.

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