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Harrow and Wealdstone
* 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
It runs partly on the surface and partly at deep level, from Elephant and Castle in inner south-east London to Harrow & Wealdstone in the north-western outer suburbs.
Services to Harrow & Wealdstone were gradually restored from 1984 and in 1989 the present all-day service was instituted.
Bakerloo trains share the tracks with London Overground Watford DC Line services from Euston between Queen's Park and Harrow & Wealdstone.
Wealdstone is a largely working-class and recent immigrant district in the London Borough of Harrow, north west London.
The Harrow Leisure Centre is located in Wealdstone and facilities include swimming, badminton, snooker, martial arts and a gym run by Harper's Fitness.
After many years of homelessness Wealdstone FC is now based nearby in Ruislip, having finally abandoned plans to relocate within Harrow at Prince Edward Fields, Canons Park.
* Harrow & Wealdstone Station
The town was formed in 1934 as an urban district of Middlesex by the Middlesex Review Order 1934, as a merger of the former area of Harrow on the Hill Urban District, Hendon Rural District and Wealdstone Urban District.
Harrow Council is focusing regeneration efforts on areas such as Wealdstone and South Harrow and many new ' key service workers '- type flats are springing up.
Harrow is considered a borough of " contrasts ", with high levels of affluence in such areas Harrow-on-the-Hill, Pinner, and Stanmore and high levels of deprivation in Wealdstone.
A London Midland train ( pictured at Harrow & Wealdstone )
: As she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through Wealdstone and Harrow,
Through Wealdstone and Harrow ( pronounced Arra in this instance )
From 1890 until 1952 Stanmore was also served by a branch line ( built by the LNWR ) from Harrow and Wealdstone, with one intermediate station at Belmont, opened in 1932 ( possibly as a counter to the opening of the Metropolitan branch line ).
Around a third of Bakerloo line trains terminate at Queen's Park rather than continuing to Willesden Junction or Stonebridge Park or Harrow & Wealdstone stations.
Sometimes to reach London Euston it is quicker to change at Harrow & Wealdstone ( any train from platform 2 ) and then take a London Midland service from Platform 6, taking approximately 22 minutes.
Platform 2 for northbound services towards Harrow & Wealdstone and Watford Junction.
* Every 5 to 10 mins to Harrow & Wealdstone, all stations, operated by London Underground.
There are regular London Underground trains on the Bakerloo Line heading southbound towards Central London and Elephant & Castle and northbound to Harrow & Wealdstone.
It has only ever had platforms on the New Line ; parallel main line services call at Harrow and Wealdstone station, one stop to the north, with some also calling at Wembley Central station, three stops to the south.
Harrow & Wealdstone station is in Wealdstone, Greater London.
The station is located between The Bridge, Wealdstone, ( which joins the southern end of High Street ) and Sandridge Close, Harrow with entrances leading to both.

Harrow and station
* Belmont, Harrow, London, formerly served by Belmont railway station
* Belmont railway station ( Harrow ), England
When Ickenham obtained a railway station on the Metropolitan Railway's line between Harrow and Uxbridge, it brought with it a rail link to London.
Roughly speaking, the area west of Chamberlayne Road, north of Harrow Road and south of Kensal Rise railway station is considered Kensal Green while that to the east of Chamberlayne Road and north of the station is considered Kensal Rise.
In the eastbound direction, a lane is lost as a slip-road descends to cross the National Rail tracks to Paddington station via the large plate-girder Westbourne Bridge, a road that previously carried traffic from Harrow Road to Bishops Bridge Road but was blocked at the north end and appropriated for the Westway scheme.
The station is situated on the Kingsbury Road, part of the A4006 which leads west to Kenton and Harrow and east to the The Hyde on the Edgware Road.
Services to Harrow started on 2 August 1880 although Wembley Park station was not constructed until later.
The station opened on 2 August 1880 as part of the ongoing extensions to the Metropolitan Railway ( this time to Harrow ), with the name Kingsbury and Neasden.
Most of the locale now known as Queensbury is actually to the north-west of the tube station, in the London Borough of Harrow, just across the borough border from the tube station, which is in the London Borough of Brent.
The station is served by bus routes 18 and N18 running west-east on the Harrow Road.
The station was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway ( L & BR ) as Harrow on 20 July 1837 in what was then rural Middlesex.
At the time the station was built, the area was fields and the nearest large settlement was at Harrow on the Hill about 1. 5 miles to the south.
The station buildings on the south-west ( Harrow ) side of the station are the older part of the station, located beside what were the fast lines until the platforms were used for the later Euston to Watford DC Line and the main line tracks were re-routed through the previous slow line platforms and newer platforms to the North-West ; a newer station building was also erected on the Wealdstone side of the station.
The track south of Harrow and Wealdstone station was removed but the disused platform 7 on the eastern side of the station was left in place as a siding for a further few years until it too was removed.

Harrow and with
But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.
He was educated at Harrow, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1804.
In the 1960s, inspired by Screamin ' Jay Hawkins, he changed his stage name to " Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow ", despite having no connection with the peerage.
* February – Harrow School is founded, with a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I of England.
At Harrow he was friends especially with Francis Maitland Balfour.
His housemaster at Harrow, F. Rendall, had eased the way to his acceptance with the recommendation that he was " a boy of powerful original mind.
Harrow town centre is located to the southeast of Hatch End and is a regional centre for higher order goods, with two shopping malls and a 9-screen cinema, along with numerous restaurants, places of entertainment and bookshops.
Northolt has good connections with South Harrow and Yeading.
Harrow is a diverse borough, having 63. 8 % of its population from the BME ( Black and Minority Ethnic ) communities, with the largest group being of Indian ethnicity.
Harrow is the most religiously diverse local authority area in the UK, with a 62 % chance that two random people are from different religions, according to Office of National Statistics, Oct 2006.
Similarly, for a long time the secondary schools of Harrow did not feature integrated sixth-form education, with all school leavers having to join the large tertiary colleges such as Harrow College, Stanmore College or St Dominic's Sixth Form College.
Much of the residential areas were expanded with the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Harrow on the Hill to Uxbridge in the early 1900s and the gradual establishment of stops along the line, becoming known as " Metro-land ".
Thomas Wildman, who had been at Harrow School with Byron and was heir to Jamaican plantations, paid £ 94, 500, easing Byron's financial troubles considerably.
The cemetery is located in the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, and its main entrance is located on Harrow Road ( near the junction with Ladbroke Grove and Chamberlayne Road ).
* Science and Technology in Islam ( 1976 ) ( with Leonard Harrow )
The GCR also struggled to compete with the Metropolitan Railway for 2nd-and 3rd-class traffic from nearby towns such as Harrow, Chesham and Aylesbury.
It maintains close links with Harrow.
Everyday dress, worn to most lessons, consists of a white shirt, black silk tie, light grey trousers ( introduced by Barnaby Lenon, and replacing the previously dark grey trousers, as the lighter grey was more traditional having been part of the uniform previously ), black shoes, an optional blue jumper ( sweater ), a dark blue woollen uniform jacket known as a ' bluer ', the option of the school blue and white scarf and dark blue woolen overcoat similar to the bluer on cold days and, notably, the Harrow Hat, often erroneously called a boater, made of varnished straw with a dark blue band.
In 1868 the school was one of the nine schools of England ( along with Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors ', Rugby, St Paul's, Westminster and Winchester ) regulated by the Public Schools Act.

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