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  Greenford Location of Greenford in Greater London | |
| Location | Greenford |
| Local authority | London Borough of Ealing |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owner | |
| Station code | GFD |
| Number of platforms | 3 (2 LU, 1 bay); 1 bay platform face disused |
| Fare zone | 4 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  2.96 million[2] |
| 2021 | 2.05 million[3] |
| 2022 |  3.29 million[4] |
| 2023 | 3.27 million[5] |
| 2024 |  3.27 million[6] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2019–20 | 0.170 million[7] |
| 2020–21 | 58,834[7] |
| 2021–22 | 0.100 million[7] |
| 2022–23 | 0.126 million[7] |
| 2023–24 | 0.123 million[7] |
| Key dates | |
| 1 October 1904 | Opened |
| 30 June 1947 | London Underground station opened |
| 17 June 1963[1] | Original main line platforms closed |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°32′33″N0°20′47″W / 51.5426°N 0.3463°W /51.5426; -0.3463 |
 London transport portal | |
Greenford is aLondon Underground andNational Rail station inGreenford, Greater London, and is owned and managed by London Underground. It is the terminus of the National RailGreenford branch line, 2 miles 40 chains (2.5 mi; 4.0 km) down the line fromWest Ealing and 9 miles 6 chains (9.1 mi; 14.6 km) measured fromLondon Paddington. On theCentral line, it is betweenPerivale andNortholt stations while on National Rail, the next station to the south on the branch isSouth Greenford.
Greenford station is inLondon fare zone 4.
The original Greenford station was opened by theGreat Western Railway on 1 October 1904 on the joint "New North Main Line" (present-dayActon–Northolt line).[8]
The present station, adjacent to the original, was designed byBrian Lewis and built in theCentral line extension of the1935-40 New Works Programme of theLondon Passenger Transport Board. It was completed byFrederick Francis Charles Curtis and opened on 30 June 1947 after delay due toWorld War II.[8] Service at the original ("main-line") station was gradually reduced and it was closed in 1963. Operational responsibility for the station transferred fromBritish Rail toLondon Transport with effect from 13 November 1967.[9]
The site of the old station for the New North Main Line can still be seen from inside Central line trains.
Greenford station is above ground level with an island platform for the Central line. Abay platform facing south-east between the Underground platforms serves the Greenford branch service operated byGreat Western Railway. The branch line then continues south and joins theGreat Western Main Line atWest Ealing.
Platform 1 is for westbound Central line trains, and platform 3 for eastbound trains. The access to the platform via escalators takes passengers to the front of the train for westbound service, and the rear for eastbound service.
Greenford was the first London Underground station to have an escalator up to platforms above street level.[10] Until 2014 it remained the final London Underground station with a wooden-treaded escalator in service; all other such escalators were previously converted to fully metal treads, or removed altogether from sub-surface Underground stations in the wake of the fatal 1987King's Cross fire.
In addition to the shuttle train, the line between Greenford and West Ealing carries freight services including containerised domestic waste from near Brentford, sand and gravel traffic and previously saw the occasional special passenger service and a daily Chiltern Railways "parliamentary ghost train" from West Ruislip to West Ealing that returned non-stop to High Wycombe.
In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Greenford and five other stations, on the grounds that these were relatively quiet stations and some were already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.[11] £3.9 million was spent on Greenford before the project was halted.[12] The step-free access project, consisting of a glassincline lift, was later restarted, opening on 20 October 2015.[13]
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:
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Great Western Railway operates a shuttle service to West Ealing every 30 minutes except on Sundays.[citation needed] Services call atSouth Greenford,Castle Bar Park,Drayton Green andWest Ealing and the journey time is just over 10 minutes. The final service of the day runs through toLondon Paddington, as well as the first terminating service. Until January 2017, all services used to run to and fromLondon Paddington, however, after the construction of a new bay platform at West Ealing and the introduction ofElizabeth line services from London Paddington toReading, it was then reduced to a shuttle running to and from West Ealing.
| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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| Northolt towardsWest Ruislip | Central line West Ruislip branch | Perivale | ||
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
| Terminus | Great Western Railway Monday–Saturday only | |||
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| Northolt | Great Western Railway New North Main Line | Perivale Halt | ||
London Buses routes92,105,395 andE6 serve the station.
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