Kilburn Park tube station

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Kilburn Park is a London Underground station at Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent. It is on the Bakerloo line between Queen's Park and Maida Vale stations, and is located in London fare zone 2.

The station is situated on Cambridge Avenue approximately Template:Convert west of Kilburn High Road, shortly before it becomes Maida Vale, (A5). It is Grade II listed.<ref name="eh_1078871"/>

History

Template:Maplink Kilburn Park was opened on 31 January 1915 as the temporary terminus of the Bakerloo line's extension from Paddington station towards Queen's Park.<ref name=rose>Template:Cite book</ref> Services were extended to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915.<ref name=rose/> At the extension's opening, Maida Vale station was not complete and the previous station was Warwick Avenue until 6 June 1915.<ref name=rose/> The station building was designed by Stanley Heaps in a modified version of the earlier Leslie Green designed Bakerloo line stations with glazed terra cotta façades but without the large semi-circular windows at first floor level. It was one of the first London Underground stations built specifically to use escalators rather than lifts.Template:Efn

It opened a short distance south of Kilburn High Road station which had previously handled much of the commuter traffic of the area, providing a quicker connection to the West End.