Finchley Road
Finchley Road Location of Finchley Road in Greater London
Location	Finchley Road
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	2
OSI	Finchley Road & Frognal [1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2018	9.03 million[2]
2019	9.19 million[3]
2020	4.70 million[4]
2021	3.91 million[5]
2022	6.68 million[6]
Key dates
30 June 1879	Opened (MR)
20 November 1939	Start (Bakerloo line)
1 August 1941	Goods yard closed[7]
1 May 1979	End (Bakerloo line)
1 May 1979	Start (Jubilee line)
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
WGS84	51°32′50″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5472°N 0.18027°W / 51.5472; -0.18027
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Finchley Road is a London Underground station at the corner of Finchley Road and Canfield Gardens in the London Borough of Camden, north London. It is on the Jubilee line, between West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage stations and on the Metropolitan line between Wembley Park and Baker Street stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station is 100 yards south of the O2 Centre. It serves the Frognal and South Hampstead areas. It is also a five-minute walk from the Finchley Road & Frognal station on the London Overground's North London line, and this is marked as an official out-of-system interchange. The station is in a cutting covered by a single glass and metal canopy and is the northernmost station below street level on the line.

History

The platforms looking south

The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan line) on its extension from its now closed station at Swiss Cottage (a different station from the current Swiss Cottage Jubilee line station). The station was rebuilt in 1914 with entrances incorporated into a new parade of shops.

By the mid-1930s the Metropolitan line was suffering from congestion on its main routes from north-west London, caused by the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To alleviate this congestion new sections of deep tube tunnels were bored between Finchley Road and Baker Street to carry some of the traffic from the Stanmore branch and stations south of Wembley Park. These new tunnels opened on 20 November 1939 and from that date Finchley Road station was also served by Bakerloo line trains running from Baker Street using the new tunnels. The Bakerloo line services were subsequently transferred to the Jubilee line when that line commenced operation on 1 May 1979.

There is a proposal to add a new entrance to the station from the site of the O2 Centre, as a part of the proposal to redevelop the site for housing.^[8]

Services

Looking north along the Jubilee line platforms.

Finchley Road entrance in 1978

Finchley Road is served by London Underground Jubilee and Metropolitan line services. The Jubilee line, which is a stopping (or local) service, operates a service frequency of 16 tph (trains per hour) between Stanmore and Stratford. The Metropolitan line offers "stopping services" (with some peak hour "fast" and "semi-fast" services) (no Metropolitan line services stop at stations between Finchley Road and Wembley Park) from Aldgate and Baker Street to the north-west of London and certain stations in the home counties.

Connections

London Buses routes 13, 113, 187, 268, C11 and night route N113 serve the station.^[9]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Finchley Road tube station.

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Finchley Road station, 1910
  • Finchley Road station, Finchley Road entrance, 1933
  • Ticket hall, 1934
  • View of platforms, 1964
  • Finchley Road station, 2001
• "Finchley Road station, Canfield Gardens entrance, 1933". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2006.

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
West Hampstead towards Stanmore		Jubilee line		Swiss Cottage towards Stratford
Wembley Park towards Uxbridge, Amersham, Chesham or Watford		Metropolitan line		Baker Street towards Baker Street or Aldgate
Harrow-on-the-Hill Peak periods only towards Uxbridge, Amersham, Chesham or Watford
Former services
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
West Hampstead towards Stanmore		Bakerloo line Stanmore branch (1939–1979)		Swiss Cottage towards Elephant & Castle
West Hampstead towards Uxbridge, Aylesbury, Chesham or Watford		Metropolitan line (1868–1939)		Swiss Cottage towards Baker Street or Aldgate