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Opened in 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway on the line from London Baker Street to Amersham, this station was called "Willesden Green & Cricklewood" from 1894 to 1938. View east towards Kilburn and central London. The platform buildings date back to 1879 although the main station entrance building dates from a 1925 rebuild. Like 55% of the London Underground network, this part is actually overground.

Viewed along Walm Lane. The station opened in 1879. The buildings seen here date from the reconstruction of 1925. The station is on the Jubilee Line and is between Dollis Hill and Kilburn. Metropolitan Line trains pass through the station, but do not normally stop. The station was Grade II listed in November 2006. The listing text summarises the station's importance thus: "A rebuilt underground station of 1925 by C.W. Clark the architect for the Metropolitan Railway Company. It is of special architectural interest for its distinctive cream terracotta facade, which Clark had used at Great Portland Street (Grade II, 1912) and Farringdon (Grade II, 1925), original lettering, integral and original shopfronts, and its well surviving ticket hall with the equally distinctive and increasingly rare sea green brick tiles. It also has historic interest as it was designed to project a strong corporate image of the interwar development of the Metropolitan line as well as being an underground station of this date built in a traditional style just before the dramatic move to modernism that Charles Holden brought to the Piccadilly Line. The interest is concentrated at street level and the steps down to the platforms. The areas beneath this are not of interest, the Victorian platforms having been faced with late C20 tiles."

Located between two pharmacies, at 12 Station Parade, facing Willesden Green station. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2973118

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. The main station buildings, which date from the reconstruction of 1925, are fine examples of the work of Charles Walter Clark, the Metropolitan Railway's architect. The station was given Grade II Listed Building status in December 2006. This is the view from the down Jubilee line platform. On the far side is the down Metropolitan line platform. This is only used when the Jubilee line is not serving the station due to planned engineering works or when there is severe service disruption. Most of the stations between Finchley Road and Wembley Park do not have platforms on the Metropolitan line any more.

With Brent Central Mosque in the background.