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Wembley Park is a London Underground station in Wembley Park, north-west London.It is served by the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.On the Jubilee line the station is between Kingsbury and Neasden stations, and on the Metropolitan line it is between Preston Road and Finchley Road stations.
Merton Park§ Merton: Merton Park: 1868 1997 TM&WR: Mildmay Park: Dalston None 1869 1934 NLR: Mile End: Mile End: Bethnal Green Jn Bethnal Green: 1843 1872 ECR: Course (1962) Mill Hill, The Hale: Mill Hill None 1906 1939 GNR: Millwall Docks: Isle of Dogs: Crossharbour DLR +/- 1871 1926 L&BR: Millwall Junction: Poplar None 1871
A few large houses had been built on parts of Wembley Park, south-west of Wembley Park tube station, as early as the 1890s. In 1906, when Watkin's Tower closed, the Tower Company had become the Wembley Park Estate Company (later Wembley Ltd.), with the aim of developing Wembley as a residential suburb .
The club closed in the late 1920s. [60] Wembley Park Golf Club was founded in 1912 in Sir Edward Watkin's Wembley Park pleasure gardens, improving on the 9-hole course that had opened, along with Watkin's Wembley Park, in 1896. The course itself became the site of the British Empire Exhibition.
Exhibition Station (Wembley) was a railway station in Wembley Park in what is now the London Borough of Brent. It was built on a spur to connect the 1924-5 British Empire Exhibition to London Marylebone. Exhibition Station opened on 28 April 1923, the day of Wembley Stadium's first FA cup final.
Montage of the Metropolitan Railway's stations from The Illustrated London News December 1862, the month before the railway opened. The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) [a] was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.
Between Wembley Park and Finchley Road, the Jubilee line shares its route with the Metropolitan line and the Chiltern Main Line. Between Canning Town and Stratford it runs parallel to the Stratford International branch of the Docklands Light Railway .
The paying public was to gain access to Wembley Park and its tower by train, arriving at the new Wembley Park station which the Metropolitan Railway constructed specially for the attraction, incorporating additional platforms to handle the large crowds which Watkin confidently anticipated would flock to the park. The station opened in 1893–4. [8]