Finchley Road tube station

For the closed former Midland Railway station, see Finchley Road railway station. For the unbuilt Metropolitan & St John's Wood Railway station, see Finchley Road railway station (Metropolitan & St John's Wood Railway).

Finchley Road is a London Underground station at the corner of Finchley Road and Canfield Gardens in the London Borough of Camden, north-west London. It is served by the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines, and is in Travelcard Zone 2. On the Jubilee line, the station is between West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage stations. On the Metropolitan line, it is between Wembley Park and Baker Street stations.

Finchley Road
Station entrance
Finchley Road Location of Finchley Road in Greater London
Location	Finchley Road
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	2
OSI	Finchley Road & Frognal [1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	9.19 million[2]
2020	4.70 million[3]
2021	3.91 million[4]
2022	6.68 million[5]
2023	7.05 million[6]
Key dates
30 June 1879	Opened (MR)
20 November 1939	Start (Bakerloo line)
1 August 1941	Goods yard closed[7]
1 May 1979	End (Bakerloo line)
1 May 1979	Start (Jubilee line)
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51.5472°N 0.18027°W / 51.5472; -0.18027
London transport portal

The station is located 100 yards (91 m) south of the O2 Centre. It serves the Frognal and South Hampstead areas. It is also a five-minute walk from the Finchley Road & Frognal station on the London Overground's Mildmay line, and this is marked as an official out-of-station interchange. The station is in a cutting covered by a single glass and metal canopy and is the northernmost station below street level on the line.

History

The station platforms looking south

The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan line) on its extension from its now closed station at Swiss Cottage (a different station from the current Swiss Cottage Jubilee line station). The station was rebuilt in 1914 with entrances incorporated into a new parade of shops.

By the mid-1930s, the Metropolitan line was suffering from congestion on its main routes from north-west London, caused by the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To alleviate this congestion new sections of deep tube tunnels were bored between Finchley Road and Baker Street to carry some of the traffic from the Stanmore branch and stations south of Wembley Park. These new tunnels opened on 20 November 1939, and from that date Finchley Road station was also served by Bakerloo line trains running from Baker Street using the new tunnels. The Bakerloo line services were subsequently transferred to the Jubilee line when that line commenced operation on 1 May 1979.

There is a proposal to add a new entrance to the station from the site of the O2 Centre, as a part of the proposal to redevelop the site for housing.^[8]

Services and layout

Station entrance in 1978

Finchley Road station is on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines in London fare zone 2. The Jubilee line uses platforms 2 & 3 and operates a service frequency of about 16 trains per hour between Stanmore and Stratford. The Metropolitan line uses platforms 1 & 4 and offers services to the north-west of London and certain stations in the home counties.

Connections

London Buses day and night services call at the station.^[9]