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Stanmore is a London Underground station in Stanmore, north-west London. It is the northern terminus of the Jubilee line and the next station towards south is Canons Park . The station is on the south side of London Road (part of the A410 ) and is in Travelcard Zone 5 .
Stanmore Village railway station was a station in Stanmore, Middlesex in the south of England (now in Greater London).Originally called simply Stanmore, it was opened on 18 December 1890 by the Harrow and Stanmore Railway, a company owned by the hotel millionaire Frederick Gordon, as the terminus of the Stanmore branch line, a short branch line running north from Harrow & Wealdstone.
Great Stanmore Parish Council stipulated that Gordon's new station building should be of the highest quality, and so Stanmore station (later renamed Stanmore Village) was designed to resemble a small English church, complete with a spire and gargoyles. Trains were run by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
Stanmore station could refer to either: Stanmore tube station, London; Stanmore Village railway station, England (now closed) Stanmore railway station, Sydney
The new stations were designed to be "future-proof", with wide passageways, large quantities of escalators and lifts, and emergency exits. The stations were the first on the Underground to have platform edge doors, and were built to have step free access throughout. [15] The project was the single largest addition to the Underground in 25 years ...
To avoid confusion with the Bakerloo line station of the same name (now part of the Jubilee line), the Stanmore BR station was renamed Stanmore Village in 1950. [1] In 1952 passenger services to Stanmore were withdrawn and passenger trains terminated at Belmont, although the line was kept open for goods trains.
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