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  West Hampstead Location of West Hampstead in Greater London | |
| Location | West Hampstead |
| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | WHD |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes[1] |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| OSI | West Hampstead  West Hampstead Thameslink  [2] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2018–19 |  4.521 million[3] |
| – interchange | 0.650 million[3] |
| 2019–20 | 4.044 million[3] |
| – interchange |  0.665 million[3] |
| 2020–21 | 1.554 million[3] |
| – interchange | 0.200 million[3] |
| 2021–22 | 2.898 million[3] |
| – interchange | 0.447 million[3] |
| 2022–23 | 3.297 million[3] |
| – interchange | 0.828 million[3] |
| Key dates | |
| 1 March 1888 | Opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°32′50″N 0°11′30″W / 51.5473°N 0.1918°W |
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West Hampstead railway station is a London Overground station on the North London Line between Brondesbury and Finchley Road & Frognal in the London Borough of Camden and is in Travelcard Zone 2.
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The station and all trains are operated by London Overground. The station entrance is on West End Lane.
Historyedit
The station opened on 1 March 1888 and was called West End Lane until 1975, when it became West Hampstead (making it one of three stations of essentially the same name along West End Lane).[4] The train service was provided by the North London Railway until 1909, when management of the NLR was taken over by the London and North Western Railway. Complete amalgamation with the LNWR followed in 1922, and the LNWR then amalgamated with other railways to form the LMS from January 1923. The LMS became the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and the shortened brand name British Rail was used from 1965. The station and the rest of the North London Line was included in the reorganised BR business Network SouthEast in 1986.
Following the privatisation of British Rail, the station was managed by the Silverlink franchise (National Express) from 1997 until 2007, when operations passed to Transport for London's new London Overground.
After privatisation, Anglia Railways ran a regional service for a while between Norwich and Basingstoke which called here. This service, known as London Crosslink, was discontinued in Autumn 2002 because of a shortage of train paths on the North London Line and the financial return being less than forecast.[citation needed]
The station was initially refurbished towards the end of 2007, to coincide with the takeover of the line by London Overground.
The station was comprehensively upgraded in the late 2010s thanks in part to the adjacent Ballymore West Hampstead Square development.[5][6] The upgrade included a new station building, wider platforms and step free access,[7] and was completed in December 2019.[8]
Accidents and incidentsedit
- On 23 February 1937, an express freight train, hauled by LMS Hughes Crab 4-6-0 No. 2765, was derailed near the station.[9]
