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Wembley Stadium railway station is a Network Rail station in Wembley, Greater London, on the Chiltern Main Line. It is the nearest station to Wembley Stadium , and is located a quarter of a mile (400 m) south west of the sports venue.
Wembley Central is an interchange station in Wembley, north-west London.It is situated on the east-west High Road and is near to both Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena.The station provides an interchange between Bakerloo line services of the London Underground; Lioness line services of the London Overground; and National Rail services operated by Southern on the West Coast main line.
Exhibition Station (Wembley) was a railway station in Wembley Park in what is now the London Borough of Brent. It was built on a spur to connect the 1924-5 British Empire Exhibition to London Marylebone. Exhibition Station opened on 28 April 1923, the day of Wembley Stadium's first FA cup final.
The London Borough of Hackney, to the north, has two stations on its border. Some stations at the north-eastern end of the Central line are in the Epping Forest district of Essex and some stations at the north-western end of the Metropolitan line are in the Three Rivers and Watford districts of Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire.
The station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway on 15 June 1912 as part of the New Line between Euston and Watford Junction; LER Bakerloo line services began on 16 April 1917. Originally to be called East Lane, after the road passing over the railway at this location, it was named North Wembley from opening.
The suburb forms the western part of Wembley and is centred around 0.6 miles (1 km) west of Wembley Central railway station. Sudbury is a historical area, having once extended from the 'South Manor - Sudbury' (thought to have been on Harrow Hill) to the area that is now known as Wembley Central. Much of the land that once formed Sudbury Common ...
Around 12,000 members of the drivers’ union Aslef and the Rail, Maritime and Train (RMT) union are on strike in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, affecting 15 train companies.
In 1880, the Metropolitan Railway opened its line from Baker Street through the eastern side of Wembley, but only built a station, Wembley Park, in 1894. There are now three physically separate services, the London to Aylesbury Line, the Metropolitan line and the Jubilee line. Only the latter two services have platforms at Wembley Park station.