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Willesden railway station was a station about 50 yards (46 m) north of Acton Lane level crossing inHarlesden,Middlesex, opened in 1841 by theLondon and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) on what became theWest Coast Main Line (WCML). It had wooden platforms about 50 yards (46 m) (5 coach lengths) long beside each of the two tracks, a small wooden ticket office with an awning and a coal siding.[1] It was about3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) south of the original village ofWillesden, in what is now theLondon Borough of Brent. It closed later the same year, reopened in 1844 and closed finally when the L&BR's successor, theLondon and North Western Railway (LNWR), openedWillesden Junction station about1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) to the southeast on 1 September 1866.[2][3] On 15 June 1912 the LNWR opened a new station, known asHarlesden, near the site.
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