Brondesbury railway station

Brondesbury
Brondesbury
	Brondesbury Location of Brondesbury in Greater London
Location	Kilburn
Local authority	London Borough of Brent
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code(s)	BSY
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
OSI	Kilburn
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	2.569 million
2020–21	1.152 million
2021–22	1.977 million
2022–23	2.179 million
2023–24	2.405 million
Railway companies
Original company	Hampstead Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 January 1860	Opened as Edgeware Road (Kilburn)
1 November 1865	Renamed Edgware Road
1 January 1872	Renamed Edgware Road and Brondesbury
1 January 1873	Renamed Brondesbury (Edgware Road)
1 May 1883	Renamed Brondesbury
Other information
External links	Departures; Facilities;
Coordinates	51°32′42″N 0°12′07″W / 51.5451°N 0.202°W
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Brondesbury is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground. It is situated on a viaduct crossing Kilburn High Road in the Brondesbury area of Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent. It is approximately 200 m (660 ft) south-east of Kilburn station and half a mile north-west of Kilburn High Road station.

History

London Overground

			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
			Internal interchange London Underground Weaver line
			Out-of-station interchange London Trams Windrush line
			( ) Nearby interchange London River Services
The new London Overground line names and colours were introduced across the London rail network in November 2024

Brondesbury station opened on 2 January 1860 as Edgeware [sic] Road (Kilburn) station on the Hampstead Junction Railway.^[3] It was renamed several times: Edgware Road on 1 November 1865,^[3] Edgware Road and Brondesbury on 1 January 1872,^[3] Brondesbury (Edgware Road) on 1 January 1873,^[3]^[4] Brondesbury on 1 May 1883.^[4]^[5]^[6] A signal box was in use at the station until 5 February 1962.^[7]

A number of plans were put forward between 1890 and 1926 to build an underground railway along the Edgware Road, and would have seen the construction of a Tube station at Brondesbury. None of the schemes succeeded and no such line was ever built.^[8]

Services

All services at Brondesbury are operated by London Overground as part of the Mildmay line using Class 378 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[9]^[10]

8 tph to Stratford via Camden Road
4 tph to Richmond
4 tph to Clapham Junction

During the late evenings, the services to and from Clapham Junction do not operate.

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Brondesbury Park towards Clapham Junction or Richmond		Mildmay line North London line		West Hampstead towards Stratford

Connections

London Buses routes 16, 32, 189, 316 and 632 and night route N16 serve the station.^[11]

References

^ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 89. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
^ ^a ^b Butt 1995, p. 46
^ History.ac.uk
^ Joe Brown (November 2006). London Railway Atlas. Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. p. 21, section A2. ISBN 0-7110-3137-1. 0611/3.
^ Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith (1997). North London Line (Broad Street to Willesden Jn. via Hampstead Heath. MP Middleton Press.
^ Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005). London's Lost Tube Schemes. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-293-3.
^ Table 59 National Rail timetable, December 2023
^ "London Overground Timetable: Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
^ "Bus routes from Brondesbury" (PDF). (435 KB)