Sudbury Town () is a

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station. It is located on the border between the London Boroughs of Brent and

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, with its main entrance on Station Approach in Sudbury. The station is on the

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branch of the

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, between Sudbury Hill and

Alperton Alperton () is an area of north-west London, England, within the London Borough of Brent. It forms the southern part of the town of Wembley and is west north-west of Charing Cross, on the border with the London Borough of Ealing. It includes a ...

stations. The forecourt of the station is known as Station Crescent. The station serves Sudbury, which forms the western part of

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. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. Sudbury & Harrow Road

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station is located around 350 metres to the north, while

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is around 1 km to the east.

History

Sudbury Town station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the

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(DR, now the

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) 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

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instead of

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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

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in a modern

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an style using brick,

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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 and 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

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windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof. Sudbury Town station is a Grade II*

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. Some of the original station signage uses the Johnston Delf Smith typeface, a wedge-serif variation of the standard London Underground Johnston typeface. On 4 July 1932, the Piccadilly line was extended to run west of its original terminus at

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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. The station was updated in 1986, in consultation with the Wembley History Society, the Thirties Society and GLC.

Services

Sudbury Town station is on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line between Sudbury Hill to the west and

to the east. 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

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

References

External links

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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