page_title: South Kenton station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: South Kenton station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Up express on the West Coast Main Line south of Kenton. View northward on the West Coast Main Line, just north of South Kenton Station (on the electric lines only). The ex-Metropolitan &amp; Great Central line (Baker Street/Marylebone - Harrow-on-the-Hill - Aylesbury etc.) is crossing in the background (Northwick Park Station is off to the left). With the WCML Slow lines on its right, the express on the Up Fast is the 12.05 Manchester (London Road) to Euston, headed by LMS 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45624 'St Helena'.
context_page_description: South Kenton is a National Rail suburban rail station in Kenton, north-west London. The station is served by suburban services operated by Arriva Rail London and London Underground Limited services. It is on both the London Overground Watford DC line and Bakerloo line between Kenton to the north, and North Wembley to the south. It is located between The Link in the Sudbury Court Estate of North Wembley, and Windermere Grove in Kenton, in the Wembley postal area.
context_section_description: The station opened on 3 July 1933 with access from both sides of the railway via a footbridge to the single island platform serving only the Euston-Watford DC line; this footbridge (which started at the bottom of the embankment) was later replaced by a pedestrian tunnel, cutting out a long climb for passengers entering the station. The station designed by the architect William Henry Hamlyn was built in a more modern "concrete and glass" style construction including a "streamlined" waiting room rather than the brick and woodwork LNWR stations elsewhere on the DC line.
caption: West Coast Main Line south of Kenton in 1955
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