Wembley Park tube station
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Wembley Park  |
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| Location | |
| Place | Wembley |
| Local authority | Brent |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 6 |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 4 |
| Annual entry/exit | 7.079 million † |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1893 |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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| † Data from Transport for London [1] | |
Wembley Park is a London Underground (LU) station in Wembley, Greater London. It is the nearest Underground station to the Wembley Stadium complex.
It was first opened on 14 October 1893 by the Metropolitan Railway for football services on Saturdays[1] and fully opened on 12 May 1894. Bakerloo Line services commenced on 20 November 1939 when the Stanmore branch (opened in 1932) of the Metropolitan Line was transferred to the newly-extended Bakerloo Line, and became part of the Jubilee Line on 1 May 1979 when the Bakerloo Line north of Baker Street was transferred to that new line.
The station has transformed in stages from a simple through station to the current junction station. The six LU tracks are arranged by direction (the adjacent Network Rail line does not serve or pass through it) with two Jubilee Line tracks in the centre flanked in turn by the Slow and Fast Metropolitan Line tracks; fast trains call here only during the off-peak. Jubilee Line trains terminating or reversing do so via sidings between the running lines to the north of the station.
Some services on both lines use the station to terminate and/or start their journeys.
Disabled Access details are described in the TfL publication "Tube Access Guide" which is available online or by request from 020 8722 1234 (textphone 020 7918 3015).
 Wembley Park |
 Station platform from a northbound Jubilee Line train |
 Station platform from a northbound Jubilee Line train |
 Station platform from a northbound Jubilee Line train |
 Old station building (used from 1923-2006) |
| Previous station | London Underground | Next station | ||
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toward Stanmore
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Jubilee Line |
toward Stratford
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| Metropolitan Line |
toward Aldgate
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