page_title: Harrow, London
section_title: Rail and London Underground
hierarchical_section_title: Harrow, London / Transport / Rail and London Underground
caption_attribution_description: English: Harrow-on-the-Hill Underground Station Busy morning rush hour times at the eastern end of Harrow-on-the-Hill Underground Station with three Metropolitan Line trains about to depart from the platforms, viewed from Station Approach.
context_page_description: Harrow is a large town in Greater London, England and serves as the principal settlement of the London Borough of Harrow. Lying about 10.5 miles northwest of Charing Cross and 5.4 miles south of Watford, the entire town including its localities Harrow on the Hill, Harrow Weald, Headstone, North Harrow, Kenton, Rayners Lane, South Harrow, Wealdstone and West Harrow, had a population of 149,246 as of the 2011 census, whereas the wider borough had a population of 250,149.
  Historically in Middlesex, Harrow was a municipal borough before it became a part of Greater London in 1965. The modern town of Harrow is what was historically called Greenhill, a former hamlet at the foot of the 408 feet Harrow Hill settlement. With the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in the 19th century, the centre of Harrow moved to Greenhill and it grew as the unofficial "capital" of the Metro-land suburbia. The historic centre of Harrow, often distinguished as Harrow on the Hill, is a conservation area with listed buildings of Georgian architecture and home to the famous Harrow School. The modern-day town of Harrow is an established commercial centre of outer North West London.
context_section_description: Harrow is served by a number of London Underground and National Rail services:
  Harrow-on-the-Hill (Metropolitan line & Aylesbury Line/Chiltern Railways)
  Harrow & Wealdstone (Bakerloo line, London Overground, London Northwestern Railway and Southern)
  West Harrow (Metropolitan line)
  South Harrow (Piccadilly line)
  Rayners Lane (Metropolitan/Piccadilly lines)
  North Harrow (Metropolitan line)
  Kenton (Bakerloo line & London Overground)
  Headstone Lane (London Overground)
  Sudbury Hill Harrow (Chiltern Main Line/Chiltern Railways)
  Northwick Park (Metropolitan line)
  Sudbury Hill (Piccadilly line)
  Harrow-on-the-Hill is the town's central station, located on College Road/Lowlands Road. The station provides direct Underground and rail links to the West End, the City, Uxbridge, and through the Chiltern Hills to Aylesbury. Harrow lies roughly halfway between central London and the foot of the Chilterns. The other major station is Harrow & Wealdstone, a short distance north from town, which has direct trains to the West End, Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Watford, Hemel Hempstead and beyond towards Brighton and Birmingham respectively. Both stations are in Travelcard zone 5. Trains towards High Wycombe are served by the smaller Sudbury Hill Harrow station which also provides an alternative route towards the West Midlands.
  Harrow-on-the-Hill is a much busier tube station compared with the town's other principle station, Harrow & Wealdstone, recording over 10.3 million London Underground passengers in 2018/2019. However, the latter is served more extensively by National Rail services, as well as the London Overground and because of this it's a busier National Rail station.
  A short railway line called the Stanmore branch line used to run from Harrow & Wealdstone via Belmont to Stanmore Village, but this line was closed in 1964.
  On 23 December 1991 the IRA exploded a bomb on a train at Harrow-on-the-Hill station; there were no injuries.
caption: Underground trains at the platforms of Harrow-on-the-Hill station.
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