Sudbury Town tube station

Sudbury Town
Sudbury Town Location of Sudbury Town in Greater London
Location	Sudbury
Local authority	London Borough of Brent
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	2.06 million
2012	2.01 million
2013	1.98 million
2014	2.10 million
Railway companies
Original company	District Railway
Key dates
28 June 1903	Station opened
4 July 1932	District line service replaced by Piccadilly line
Listed status
Listing grade	II* (since 20 July 2011)
Entry number	1294594
Added to list	19 February 1971
Other information
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Sudbury Town is a London Underground station on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line. The station is between Alperton and Sudbury Hill, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. It is located on the border between the London Boroughs of Brent and Ealing, with its main entrance on Station Approach in Sudbury. The forecourt of the station is known as Station Crescent.

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 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 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 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 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 a variation of the standard London Underground Johnston typeface with small serifs. This 'petit-serif' typeface was developed by Holden with Percy Delf Smith.

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.

The station has recently been refurbished.

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 204, 245, 487 and H17 serve the station.

External links

Petit-serif variant of Johnston type

• • Sudbury Town station, 1926
  • New station building after opening, 1931
  • Booking hall, 1931
  • View of platforms and main building, 1932

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