Greenford Station is a London Underground and National Rail station in Greenford, Greater London, and is owned and managed by LUL. It is the terminus of the National Rail Greenford Branch Line, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.
The original Greenford station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 October 1904 on the joint New North Main Line.
Greenford station is above ground level with an island platform for the Central line, where it is between Perivale and Northolt stations.
Greenford was the first London Underground station to have an escalator up to platforms above street level. It remains the only London Underground station with a wooden-treaded escalator in service; all other such escalators were converted to fully metal treads, or removed altogether from sub-surface Underground stations in the wake of the fatal 1987 King's Cross fire.
October 8, 2018