Harrow & Wealdstone Station

Harrow & Wealdstone is a interchange station in Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow. It is served by London Overground, London Midland, Southern and London Underground services. The station is located between The Bridge, Wealdstone, (which joins the southern end of High Street) and Sandridge Close, Harrow with entrances leading to both. The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash of 1952, killing 112 people, occurred at the station. It remains Britain's worst peacetime rail disaster. HistoryThe station was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway (L& BR) as Harrow on 20 July 1837 in what was then rural Middlesex. At the time the station was built, the area was fields and the nearest large settlement was at Harrow on the Hill about 1. 5mi to the south. Wealdstone was a collection of houses at the north end of what is now Wealdstone High Street, about 1mi north of the station. The station buildings on the south west (Harrow) side of the station are the older part of the station, located beside what were the fast lines until the platforms were used for the later Euston to Watford DC line and the main line tracks were re-routed through the previous slow line platforms and new platforms (numbers 5 and 6) to the north east; a new, larger, station building was also erected on this Wealdstone side of the station. The station footbridge was originally constructed with a full-height central barrier with passengers using the "London" side and railway and postal staff using the "country" side to move goods and mail via lifts which were removed in the early 1970s, leaving two parcels elevators serving the DC line platforms for the remaining postal traffic.

Harrow & Wealdstone is a interchange station in Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow. It is served by London Overground, London Midland, Southern and London Underground services. The station is located between The Bridge, Wealdstone, (which joins the southern end of High Street) and Sandridge Close, Harrow with entrances leading to both. The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash of 1952, killing 112 people, occurred at the station. It remains Britain's worst peacetime rail disaster. HistoryThe station was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway (L& BR) as Harrow on 20 July 1837 in what was then rural Middlesex. At the time the station was built, the area was fields and the nearest large settlement was at Harrow on the Hill about 1. 5mi to the south. Wealdstone was a collection of houses at the north end of what is now Wealdstone High Street, about 1mi north of the station. The station buildings on the south west (Harrow) side of the station are the older part of the station, located beside what were the fast lines until the platforms were used for the later Euston to Watford DC line and the main line tracks were re-routed through the previous slow line platforms and new platforms (numbers 5 and 6) to the north east; a new, larger, station building was also erected on this Wealdstone side of the station. The station footbridge was originally constructed with a full-height central barrier with passengers using the "London" side and railway and postal staff using the "country" side to move goods and mail via lifts which were removed in the early 1970s, leaving two parcels elevators serving the DC line platforms for the remaining postal traffic.