Rayners Lane is a stop on the London Underground Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines in north west London between Eastcote and West Harrow or South Harrow.
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| A Piccadilly Line service arrives at Rayners Lane |
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| Type: | Transport for London (London Underground Metropolitan & Piccadilly Lines) |
| Station code: | ZRL |
| Opened: | 1906 |
| Platforms: | 2 |
The station was opened by the Harrow & Uxbridge Railway in 1906, part of the growing Metropolitan Railway. The station was opened as Rayners Lane Halt (Rayner was the name of a local farmer not a place!) At the time the station was in a rural location. House building did not begin in earnest in the locality until the 1930s. Passenger usage at Rayners Lane went from 22,000 in 1930 to 4 million in 1937!
The District Railway reached the station in 1910 on an extension from South Harrow, this line is now part of the Piccadilly, some services terminate at the station. The station was rebuilt in 1938, the design by Charles Holden and Reginald Uren [1].
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| View down the platform |
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| Approaching train |
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| A Metropolitan Line train departs |
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 151
