Queen's Park station (England)

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The station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879, on the main line from London to Birmingham.{{cite web |url=http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/bakerloo.html#dates |title=Bakerloo Line, Dates |work=Clive's Underground Line Guides |access-date=21 July 2008}}

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915.{{cite book |last=Rose |first=Douglas |title=The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History |year=1999 |publisher=Douglas Rose/Capital Transport |isbn=1-85414-219-4}} On 10 May 1915, Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as {{rws|Willesden Junction}} over the recently built Watford DC line tracks shared with the LNWR.

London Midland previously made three operational calls daily, which were not found in public timetables. As of the December 2013 timetable these stops no longer exist, with no main line services calling at the station.{{cite book |title=GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14 |at=Table 66 |publisher=Network Rail}}{{cite book |title=Working TimeTable |at=CB01 |date=8 December 2013 – 17 May 2014 |publisher=Network Rail}}

File:Railways of Great Britain 283.jpg of Bakerloo Line and London Overground at Queen's Park station.]]

All platforms at Queen's Park station are on the surface, the station being covered by a glazed roof. The slow main line platforms (platforms 5 and 6) are reserved for use during engineering work or partial line closures. The Bakerloo line tunnel portals are about {{convert|300|m|ft}} to the east of the station. The two inner station tracks, platforms 3 (westbound) and 2 (eastbound), split into four tracks in a carriage shed to the west of the station. Bakerloo line services starting or ending at Queen's Park normally do so in the two centre tracks of the four-track carriage shed. Bakerloo line trains joining or leaving the Watford DC line tracks (also used by the Lioness line) do so by passing through the carriage shed on one of the two outer tracks, which merge into the Watford DC line, the latter of which becomes the station's outer tracks. Around a third of Bakerloo line trains terminate at Queen's Park with others continuing onward to {{rws|Harrow & Wealdstone}}.

All platforms are accessed by stairs and although there is local pressure for step-free access there are no firm plans for lifts or escalators to be installed. The stairs are all behind the ticket barriers.

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Queen's Park is served by the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground. The current off-peak service is:

• 16 tph to {{lus|Elephant & Castle}}
• 4 tph to {{rws|Stonebridge Park}}
• 4 tph to {{rws|Harrow & Wealdstone}}

8 tph from Elephant & Castle terminate at Queen's Park.

• 4 tph to {{rws|Euston}}
• 4 tph to {{rws|Watford Junction}}

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London Buses routes 6, 36, 187, 206, and 316 serve the station.

Great North Western Railway was given permission to run six trains per day from London to {{rws|Blackpool North}} stopping at Queen's Park from 2018, but these plans have yet to come to fruition.{{cite news |last1=Topham |first1=Gwyn |title=Virgin has a rival: GNWR to run London to Blackpool west coast rail service |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/07/virgin-has-a-rival-gnwr-london-blackpool-west-coast-rail-service |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=7 August 2015 |date=7 August 2015}}

Queen's Park may be the service's terminus, as stopping patterns including permission to run the service beyond Queen's Park to {{rws|London Euston}} are dependent upon future infrastructural work to the West Coast Main Line.

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• [https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs London Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
• {{LTM archive|1998-86703|Queen's Park station, 1925}}
• {{LTM archive|2003-5372|Main line and Underground stock trains at Queen's Park, 1933}}

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Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1879

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