Sudbury Hill | |
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Location of Sudbury Hill in Greater London
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Location | Sudbury |
Local authority | London Borough of Harrow |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Fare zone | 4 |
OSI | Sudbury Hill Harrow |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2012 | 2.03 million |
2013 | 2.01 million |
2014 | 2.21 million |
2015 | 2.22 million |
Key dates | |
1903 | Opened (DR) |
1932 | Start (Piccadilly line) |
1932 | End (District line) |
Listed status | |
Listing grade | II |
Entry number | 1254171 |
Added to list | 17 May 1994 |
Other information | |
Lists of stations | |
WGS84 | 51°33′25″N 0°20′11″W / 51.5569°N 0.3364°WCoordinates: 51°33′25″N 0°20′11″W / 51.5569°N 0.3364°W |
Sudbury Hill is a London Underground station on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line. The station is between Sudbury Town and South Harrow, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. It is located on Greenford Road (A4127) north of the junction with Whitton Avenue, on the border between the London Boroughs of Harrow and Ealing. The station is close to Sudbury Hill Harrow railway station.
Sudbury Hill station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on its new extension to South Harrow from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey.
This new extension was, together with the existing tracks back to Acton Town, the first section of the Underground's surface lines to be electrified and operate electric instead of steam trains. The deep-level tube lines open at that time (City & South London Railway, Waterloo & City Railway and Central London Railway) had been electrically powered from the start.
The original station building was demolished in 1930 and 1931 and replaced by a new station in preparation for the handover of the branch from the District line to the Piccadilly line. The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Like the stations at Sudbury Town and Alperton to the south as well as others that Holden designed elsewhere for the east and west Piccadilly line extensions such as Acton Town and Oakwood, Sudbury Hill station features a tall block-like ticket hall rising above a low horizontal structure that contains station facilities and shops. The brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof.