West Hampstead
West Hampstead Location of West Hampstead in Greater London
Location	West Hampstead
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	WHD
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	2
OSI	West Hampstead West Hampstead Thameslink[2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2020–21	1.554 million[3]
– interchange	0.200 million[3]
2021–22	2.898 million[3]
– interchange	0.447 million[3]
2022–23	3.297 million[3]
– interchange	0.828 million[3]
2023–24	3.702 million[3]
– interchange	0.622 million[3]
2024–25	3.945 million[3]
– interchange	0.574 million[3]
Key dates
1 March 1888	Opened asWest End Lane
1975	RenamedWest Hampstead
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°32′50″N0°11′30″W / 51.5473°N 0.1918°W /51.5473; -0.1918
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West Hampstead is a station on theMildmay line of theLondon Overground, located onWest End Lane in theLondon Borough of Camden. Located inLondon fare zone 2, it is situated betweenBrondesbury andFinchley Road & Frognal stations.

Twoout-of-station interchanges exist with West Hampstead Overground station. One of these is withWest Hampstead tube station on theJubilee line of theLondon Underground, and the other is withWest Hampstead Thameslink station forNational Rail services operated byThameslink.

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Station National Rail Liberty line Accessible station Thameslink Lioness line Interchange station Elizabeth line Mildmay line Accessible interchange Docklands Light Railway Suffragette line Internal interchange London Underground Weaver line Out-of-station interchange London Trams Windrush line (   ) Nearby interchange London River Services

v t e Stations in West Hampstead
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Chiltern Main Line toBirmingham LUJubilee andMetropolitan lines Thameslink andMidland Main Line North London line toRichmond London Overground station Thameslink station West Hampstead (onWest End Lane) LU Jubilee line station Finchley Road OSI: Finchley Road (MR) (1868–1927) Finchley Road & Frognal OSI: North London line toStratford Thameslink andMidland Main Line LUJubilee andMetropolitan lines Chiltern Main Line toMarylebone
OSI =Out of station interchange

The station opened on 1 March 1888 and was calledWest End Lane until 1975, when it became West Hampstead (making it one of three stations of essentially the same name alongWest End Lane).^[4] The train service was provided by theNorth London Railway until 1909, when management of the NLR was taken over by theLondon and North Western Railway. Complete amalgamation with the LNWR followed in 1922, and the LNWR then amalgamated with other railways to form the LMS from January 1923. The LMS became the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and the shortened brand nameBritish Rail was used from 1965. The station and the rest of the North London Line was included in the reorganised BR businessNetwork SouthEast in 1986.

Following theprivatisation of British Rail, the station was managed by theSilverlink franchise (National Express) from 1997 until 2007, when operations passed toLondon Overground.

After privatisation,Anglia Railways ran a regional service for a while betweenNorwich andBasingstoke which called here. This service, known asLondon Crosslink, was discontinued in Autumn 2002 because of a shortage of train paths on the North London line and the financial return being less than forecast.^{[citation needed]}

The station was initially refurbished towards the end of 2007, to coincide with the takeover of the line by London Overground. The station was comprehensively upgraded in the late 2010s thanks in part to the adjacentBallymore West Hampstead Square development.^[5][6] The upgrade included a new station building, wider platforms and step free access,^[7] and was completed in December 2019.^[8] The works were designed byMott MacDonald engineers and BPR Architects.^[9]

• On 23 February 1937, an express freight train, hauled byLMS Hughes Crab2-6-0 No. 2765, was derailed near the station.^[10]

AWest Hampstead interchange proposal was put forward in 2004 byChiltern Railways which would link the three West Hampstead stations with subterranean walkways. New platforms would be built for theChiltern Main Line, and possibly also for theMetropolitan line, and the Thameslink and London Overground (formerly Silverlink) stations would be relocated on the east side of West End Lane.^[11]The redevelopment would involve demolishing existing buildings and the redevelopment of West End Lane as "a tree-lined boulevard".^[12][13] The plans were put on hold in 2007 due to uncertainty over theNorth London line rail franchise.^[14] This has now been shelved withNetwork Rail instead redeveloping the Thameslink station by installing a second footbridge with lift access leading to a new station building on Iverson Road.^[15]

In early 2008, the London Group of theCampaign for Better Transport published a plan^[16] for an off-road, mainly orbitalNorth and West London Light Railway, sharing the orbitalDudding Hill Line freight corridor, and taking over at least one of the twoMidland Railway freight lines which run through the neighbouring West Hampstead Thameslink station.

London Buses routes139,328 andC11 serve the station.

All services at West Hampstead are operated byLondon Overground as part of theMildmay line usingClass 378EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[17][18]

• 8 tph toStratford viaCamden Road
• 4 tph toRichmond
• 4 tph toClapham Junction

During the late evenings, the services to and from Clapham Junction do not operate.

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Brondesbury towardsClapham Junction orRichmond		Mildmay line North London line		Finchley Road & Frognal towardsStratford
Historical Railways
Willesden Junction		Anglia Railways London Crosslink		Camden Road

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