South Kenton station explained

South Kenton
Symbol:underground
Symbol2:overground
Manager:London Underground[1]
Owner:Network Rail
Locale:Kenton
Borough:London Borough of Brent
Platforms:2
Fare Zone:4
Railcode:SOK
Coordinates:51.5708°N -0.3087°W
Years1:3 July 1933
Events1:Opened
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South Kenton is an interchange station in Kenton, north-west London. The station is served by suburban services on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground. The station lies between Kenton and North Wembley stations. It is located between The Link in the Sudbury Court Estate of North Wembley, and Windermere Grove in Kenton, in the Wembley postal area.

History

The station opened on 3 July 1933 with access from both sides of the railway via a footbridge to the single island platform serving only the Watford DC line; this footbridge (which started at the bottom of the embankment) was later replaced by a pedestrian tunnel, cutting out a long climb for passengers entering the station. The station designed by the architect William Henry Hamlyn[2] was built in a more modern "concrete and glass" style construction including a "streamlined" waiting room rather than the brick and woodwork LNWR stations elsewhere on the DC line.

The station today

The station is an island platform and Bakerloo line train doors are not level with it. Therefore, there is a downward step to the train from the platform. The ticket office is at platform level and occupies the north end of the streamlined 1933 building. It is one of the three stations served by London Underground which has no ticket gates[3] and due to the restrictive layout here there are no plans for these to be installed in the immediate future. There is no wheelchair access.

Services

There are four trains per hour on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground heading southbound towards Central London and Elephant & Castle and northbound to Harrow & Wealdstone.

There are also four trains per hour on the Lioness line of the London Overground to London Euston southbound and to Watford Junction northbound.

Connections

London Buses route 223 serve the station.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/3736.aspx -->. Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations . https://web.archive.org/web/20141213023532/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2006/december/safety-boost-as-london-underground-to-take-control-of-11-silverlink-stations. 13 December 2014. Transport for London. 5 December 2006. 19 February 2015.
  2. Book: Lawrence, David . 2018 . British Rail Architecture 1948-97 . Crecy Publishing Ltd . 33 . 9780860936855 .
  3. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-0362-2223 FOI request detail: stations with / without ticket barriers on LU and LO