South Kenton station

LocationKentonLocal authorityLondon Borough of BrentManaged byLondon Underground^[1]OwnerNetwork RailStation codeSOKDfT categoryENumber of platforms2Fare zone4London Underground annual entry and exit2018 0.88 million^[2]2019 1.42 million^[3]2020 0.97 million^[4]2021 0.63 million^[5]2022 1.01 million^[6]National Rail annual entry and exit2018–19 0.545 million^[7]2019–20 0.555 million^[7]2020–21 0.214 million^[7]2021–22 0.419 million^[7]2022–23 0.502 million^[7]Key dates3 July 1933OpenedOther informationExternal links

• TfL station info page
• Departures
• Layout
• Facilities
• Buses

WGS8451°34′15″N 0°18′31″W / 51.5708°N 0.3087°W / 51.5708; -0.3087 London transport portal

South Kenton is a station in Kenton, north-west London. The station is served by suburban services operated by London Underground on the Bakerloo line and London Overground on the Watford DC line. In the Bakerloo line, the station lies between Kenton and North Wembley stations. It is located between The Link in the Sudbury Court Estate of North Wembley, and Windermere Grove in Kenton, in the Wembley postal area.

History

The station opened on 3 July 1933 with access from both sides of the railway via a footbridge to the single island platform serving only the Euston-Watford DC line; this footbridge (which started at the bottom of the embankment) was later replaced by a pedestrian tunnel, cutting out a long climb for passengers entering the station. The station designed by the architect William Henry Hamlyn^[8] was built in a more modern "concrete and glass" style construction including a "streamlined" waiting room rather than the brick and woodwork LNWR stations elsewhere on the DC line.

The station today

The station is an island platform and Bakerloo line train doors are not level with it. Therefore, there is a downward step to the train from the platform. The ticket office is at platform level and occupies the north end of the streamlined 1933 building. It is one of the very few stations served by London Underground which has no ticket gates and due to the restrictive layout here there are no plans for these to be installed in the immediate future. There is no wheelchair access.

Services

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Cheshunt Theobalds Grove Enfield Town Turkey Street Romford Bush Hill Park Southbury Emerson Park Upminster Edmonton Green Silver Street Chingford White Hart Lane Highams Park Watford Junction Bruce Grove Wood Street Watford Seven Sisters Walthamstow Central High Street Harringay Blackhorse Road Walthamstow Queen's Road Bushey Green Lanes Carpenders Park Crouch Hill South Tottenham St. James Leyton Midland Road Hatch End Upper () Stamford Hill Street Leytonstone Headstone Lane Holloway Stoke Newington Clapton High Road Harrow & Kentish Town West Rectory Road Wanstead Park () Wealdstone Gospel Oak Camden Road () Hackney Woodgrange Park Kenton () Caledonian Road Canonbury Downs Barking South Kenton & Barnsbury Barking Riverside () North Highbury & Islington Dalston Kingsland Hackney Central Wembley Hampstead Heath Dalston Wembley Finchley Road & Frognal () Junction London Fields Central West Hampstead ( ) Haggerston Cambridge Homerton Stonebridge Brondesbury Hoxton Heath Hackney Wick Park Brondesbury Park Shoreditch High Street Bethnal Green Stratford Harlesden Kensal Rise Kensal Green Liverpool Whitechapel Willesden Queen's Park Street Shadwell () Junction Kilburn High Road Wapping South Hampstead Rotherhithe Shepherd's Bush () Euston () Canada Water Kensington (Olympia) Surrey Quays West Brompton Battersea Park Imperial Wharf () (limited service) New Cross Clapham Queens Road Peckham New Cross Gate Junction Peckham Rye Brockley Acton Central Wandsworth Road Denmark Hill Honor Oak Park South Acton () Clapham Forest Hill Gunnersbury High Street Sydenham Kew Gardens Richmond Crystal Palace Penge West Anerley Norwood Junction West Croydon ()
Legend
Station National Rail Liberty line Accessible station Thameslink Lioness line Interchange station Elizabeth line Mildmay line Accessible interchange Docklands Light Railway Suffragette line London Underground Weaver line Internal interchange London Trams Windrush line Out-of-station interchange London River Services The new London Overground line names and colours are to be introduced across the London rail network in autumn 2024

There are 4tph on the Bakerloo line heading southbound towards Central London and Elephant & Castle and northbound to Harrow & Wealdstone.

There are 4tph on the London Overground service to London Euston southbound and to Watford Junction northbound.

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Kenton towards Watford Junction		Watford DC line		North Wembley towards Euston
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Kenton towards Harrow & Wealdstone		Bakerloo line		North Wembley towards Elephant & Castle

Connections

London Buses route 223 serve the station.

References

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