West Hampstead
Station entrance
West Hampstead Location of West Hampstead in Greater London
Location	West Hampstead
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
OSI	West Hampstead West Hampstead Thameslink[1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2020	4.96 million[2]
2021	4.47 million[3]
2022	7.10 million[4]
2023	7.39 million[5]
2024	8.43 million[6]
Key dates
30 June 1879	Opened (MR)
20 November 1939	Start (Bakerloo line)
1 May 1979	End (Bakerloo line)
1 May 1979	Start (Jubilee line)
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°32′49″N0°11′26″W / 51.54694°N 0.19056°W /51.54694; -0.19056
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Legend
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

West Hampstead is aLondon Underground station inWest Hampstead,London. It is located onWest End Lane betweenBroadhurst Gardens and Blackburn Road and is situated inLondon fare zone 2. The station is on theJubilee line, betweenKilburn andFinchley Road stations. It is 100 m (110 yd) fromWest Hampstead station on theLondon Overground'sMildmay line and 200 m (220 yd) fromWest Hampstead Thameslink station. Metropolitan line trains also pass through the station, but do not stop.

The station was opened on 30 June 1879 by theMetropolitan Railway (now theMetropolitan line) when it extended its tracks fromSwiss Cottage. The station acted as the temporary terminus of the branch until it was further extended toWillesden Green on 24 November that year. The original station had two tracks with facing platforms; the booking office was to the south of the current surface building location with separate stairs to each platform. Consequential to the extension of the Great Central Railway displacing the Metropolitan Railway toward the north, this construction was replaced by an island platform overlapping the position of the previous Up platform.^[7]

On 20 November 1939, most stopping services were transferred to theBakerloo line when it took over operations on theStanmore branch; at this time the platform was rebuilt in the Underground's standard style, but the station building was retained. Stopping services were transferred to the Jubilee line on 1 May 1979.^[8] Metropolitan line services run past the station on their own tracks either side of the Jubilee Line having not served the station (a few trains in the early morning and late at night) since the connection between the Metropolitan and Jubilee Lines at Finchley Road was removed as part of the preparation for automatic operation of the Jubilee Line.

In 2003, Chiltern Railways unveiled a proposal forWest Hampstead interchange, a development that would allow passenger interchange among five different Tube and railway lines.^[9] In 2008 it was proposed that theNorth and West London Light Railway could serve the station.^[10] The West Hampstead interchange proposal is now no longer possible, due to development in the area.

Both the nearbyThameslink station and theOverground station were rebuilt and upgraded in 2011 and 2019 respectively, with step free access added to both stations.^[11]

Local community groups and politicians have pushed for step-free access to be provided at the Underground station.^[12][13] As part of the approval of redevelopment of theO2 Centre by developersLandsec in 2023, £10 million was secured for future step-free access at the Underground station.^[14] In July 2023, TfL announced that West Hampstead was one of several stations that could become step-free, depending on available funding.^[15] In 2025, a property developer proposed replacing light industrial units adjacent to the station with student accommodation and new homes. This proposal would allow for TfL to expand the station to provide step-free access, as well as widen the narrow pavement outside the entrance.^[16]

Due to stairs leading from the ticket hall to the platform, the station is not accessible. Facilities include an automatic ticket machine, two quick ticket machines, a ticket booth, countdown timers, a waiting room and both male and female toilets.

Most maps show the three stations as connections. Through ticketing is allowed.

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  West Hampstead tube station northbound platform, December 2005.
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  West Hampstead tube station seen from the footbridge between Blackburn Road andBroadhurst Gardens, April 2007.
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  West Hampstead tube station westbound platform looking east, September 2008.
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  West Hampstead tube station, looking towards Kilburn, April 2008.
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  West Hampstead tube station main entrance April 2009.
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  Waiting room.

London Buses routes139,328 andC11 serve the station.

• Stations in West Hampstead

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Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Kilburn towardsStanmore		Jubilee line		Finchley Road towardsStratford
Former services
Kilburn towardsStanmore		Bakerloo line Stanmore branch (1939–1979)		Finchley Road towardsElephant & Castle
		Metropolitan line Stanmore branch (1932–1939)		Finchley Road towardsBaker Street orAldgate

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