Willesden Green station
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Willesden Green station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 30 Jul 2014
The Metropolitan Railway was extended from Swiss Cottage via Kilburn to Willesden Green on 24th November 1879 when Willesden Green station opened. In the following year the Metropolitan line was extended on to Harrow-on-the-Hill. From 1894 the station was renamed Willesden Green and Cricklewood and reverted to Willesden Green in 1938. 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 view is from the Jubilee line platforms looking away from London. A Stanmore-bound Jubilee line train is about to pull away on the left. Beyond the station is the Central Mosque of Brent - see also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3930535
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