Sudbury Hill tube station

This article is about the tube station on the Piccadilly line. For other uses, see Sudbury railway station (disambiguation).

Sudbury Hill
Sudbury Hill Location of Sudbury Hill in Greater London
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
2011	2.01 million
2012	2.03 million
2013	2.01 million
2014	2.21 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	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
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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.

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History

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.

On 4 July 1932 the Piccadilly line was extended to run west of its original terminus at Hammersmith sharing the route with the District line to Ealing Common. From Ealing Common to South Harrow, the District line was replaced by the Piccadilly line.

Since 1994 it has been a Grade II Listed Building.

Services

The typical off-peak service is a train in each direction every ten minutes. Half of northbound trains terminate at Rayners Lane tube station and the other half continue to the terminus of the line at Uxbridge.

Connections

London Buses routes 92 and H17 serve the station.

Gallery

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  Looking eastbound

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  Looking westbound

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  Roundel on westbound platform

See also

• Sudbury Hill Harrow Station
• Sudbury & Harrow Road Station

External links

• • Sudbury Hill station, 1916
  • Temporary station building, 1931
  • Sudbury Hill station, 1932
  • Booking hall of new station, 1934

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
South Harrow towards Rayners Lane or Uxbridge		Piccadilly line		Sudbury Town towards Cockfosters
	Former services
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
South Harrow towards South Harrow or Uxbridge		District line (1903-1932)		Sudbury Town towards Upminster