Brondesbury railway station

Brondesbury is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground. It is situated on a viaduct crossing Kilburn High Road in the Brondesbury area of Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent. It is approximately Template:Cvt south-east of Template:Stl station and half a mile north-west of Template:Stnlnk station.

History

Brondesbury Station in 1961

Brondesbury station opened on 2 January 1860 as Edgeware Template:Sic Road (Kilburn) station on the Hampstead Junction Railway.<ref name=Butt89>Template:Cite book</ref> It was renamed several times: Edgware Road on 1 November 1865,<ref name=Butt89 /> Edgware Road and Brondesbury on 1 January 1872,<ref name=Butt89 /> Brondesbury (Edgware Road) on 1 January 1873,<ref name=Butt89 /><ref name=Butt46>Template:Harvnb</ref> Brondesbury on 1 May 1883.<ref name=Butt46 /><ref>History.ac.uk</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A signal box was in use at the station until 5 February 1962.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

A number of plans were put forward between 1890 and 1926 to build an underground railway along the Edgware Road, and would have seen the construction of a Tube station at Brondesbury. None of the schemes succeeded and no such line was ever built.<ref name="losttube">Template:Cite book</ref>

Services

All services at Brondesbury are operated by London Overground as part of the Mildmay line using Template:Brc EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:<ref>Template:NRtimes</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• 8 tph to Template:Stn via Template:Stnlnk
• 4 tph to Template:Stn
• 4 tph to Template:Stnlnk

During the late evenings, the services to and from Clapham Junction do not operate.

Connections

London Buses routes 16, 32, 189, 316 and 632 and night route N16 serve the station.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Template:Small</ref>