Willesden Junction (WIJ)

Willesden Junction is a stop on the London Underground Bakerloo Line between Harlesden and Kensal Green. It is also a stop on the London Overground's Watford DC and West London Lines as well as a former station on the West Coast Main Line.

A Bakerloo Line train arrives

Information
Type:	Transport for London (London Underground Bakerloo Line & London Overground)
Station code:	WIJ
Opened:	1866
Platforms:	5

The station was opened in 1866 by the London & Birmingham Railway on what later became the West Coast Main Line. The West London Line reached Willesden Junction in 1869, a new high-level station being built for these services. The LNWR's new electrified line to Watford reached Willesden Junction in 1912, the Bakerloo Line using the new line from 1915, these services used platforms on the original station, the low level part of the station. The adjacent WCML platforms were closed in 1962 [1][2].

The station nowadays consist of a high-level (West London Line) and low-level (Watford DC and Bakerloo). Both are island platforms though the low-level part of the station also has a bay platform.

High-level platforms, a London Overground train is waiting

Walkway between the two levels

Bakerloo Line train arrives

View down the platform

[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 169

[2] Keith Scholey, Euston to Harrow & Wealdstone (Middleton Press, 2002) Fig. 72