Sudbury Town () is a London Underground station on the Uxbridge tube station, Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line. The station is between Alperton tube station, Alperton and Sudbury Hill tube station, Sudbury Hill, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. It is located on the border between the London Boroughs of London Borough of Brent, Brent and London Borough of Ealing, Ealing, with its main entrance on Station Approach in Sudbury, London, Sudbury. The forecourt of the station is known as Station Crescent. The station serves Sudbury, which forms the western part of Wembley. Sudbury & Harrow Road railway station, Sudbury & Harrow Road National Rail station is located around 350 metres to the north, while Wembley Central station, on the Bakerloo line and the London Overground Watford DC Line, line to Watford Junction, is around 1 km to the east.

History

Sudbury Town station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on its new extension to South Harrow tube station, South Harrow from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey tube station, Park Royal & Twyford Abbey. This new extension was, together with the existing tracks back to Acton Town tube station, Acton Town, the first section of the Underground's surface lines to be electrification, electrified and operate electric locomotive, electric instead of steam locomotive, 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 Hill to the north 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 tube station, Acton Town and Oakwood tube station, Oakwood, Sudbury Town 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. Sudbury Town station is a Grade II* listed building. Some of the original station signage uses the Johnston (typeface)#Johnston Delf Smith, Johnston Delf Smith typeface, a Serif#Latin or wedge-serif, wedge-serif variation of the standard London Underground Johnston (typeface), Johnston typeface. On 4 July 1932, the Piccadilly line was extended to run west of its original terminus at Hammersmith tube station (Piccadilly and District lines), 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.

Services

The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: *6tph to Cockfosters (Eastbound) *3tph to Rayners Lane (Westbound) *3tph to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane (Westbound) The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is: *12tph to Cockfosters (Eastbound) *6tph to Rayners Lane (Westbound) *6tph to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane (Westbound)

Connections

London Buses routes London Buses route 204, 204, London Buses route 487, 487 and London Buses route H17, H17 serve the station. Route 245 no longer stops at the station.

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