Alperton is a London Underground station in Alperton, north-west London. It is on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line, between Sudbury Town and Park Royal stations. It is in London fare zone 4.
The station is located on Ealing Road (A4089), a short distance from the junction with Bridgewater Road (A4005), and is close to the Paddington branch of the Grand Union Canal.
History
Alperton was opened on 28 June 1903 by the District Railway (now the District line), with its name being "Perivale Alperton", on its new extension to South Harrow on electrified tracks from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey, which it was opened five days earlier.
The station was refurbished in 2006.
In June 2025 it was announced that the station will get two lifts added and should be in use by Summer 2027.
Incidents and accidents
On 2 March 1944 during the Second World War, bomb damage prevented through services to and from Uxbridge for five days.
Design
The original station building was a modest timber-framed structure built in 1910. In 1930 and 1931, this was demolished 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.
thumb|Alperton Station
Like other stations such as Sudbury Town and Sudbury Hill to the north and others that Holden designed elsewhere, and also for the east and west Piccadilly line extensions such as Acton Town and Oakwood, Alperton station features a tall block-like ticket hall rising above a low horizontal structure that contains station offices 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.
Alperton formerly shared with Greenford (on the Central line) the distinction of being one of the only two stations to have an escalator going up to the platforms. In 1955, an up escalator was installed to the eastbound platform. It had originally been used at the South Bank exhibition of the Festival of Britain. The escalator fell out of use in 1988, and its machine remains in place behind a wall.
Services
Alperton station is on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line in London fare zone 4. It is between Sudbury Town to the west and Park Royal to the east.
The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:
- 6 tph to Cockfosters (Eastbound)
- 3 tph to Rayners Lane (Westbound)
- 3 tph to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane (Westbound)
The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is:
Notes and references
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External links
- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Showing structure of reinforced concrete roof
- With appearance marred by rooftop safety barriers