Wembley Park modernisation

Wembley Park station is being enlarged in connection with the new Wembley Stadium which is due to open in 2005.

The current Wembley Park station, which serves the bulk of Wembley Stadium traffic (as opposed to Chiltern's Wembley Stadium station or the Bakerloo/Silverlink Wembley Central station) can currently handle around 22,000 passengers per hour (assuming most travel southbound).

The upgrade involves building a larger ticket hall, wider entrance staircase, and adding new staircases to the platforms, and will allow a maximum capacity of 37,500 passengers per hour.

Once the new stadium opens, 50,000 passengers are expected to arrive for events via Wembley Park, 12,000 via Wembley Central (Silverlink Metro and Bakerloo) and 6,000 via Wembley Stadium station (Chiltern Railways). Car parking for stadium events will be provided in Docklands adjacent tot he Jubilee line.

Improvements start at Wembley Park station this week, although some weekend closures of the station will be necessary in the future to enable this modernisation work to take place. A section of the car park will also be closed in connection with the works.

London Underground have stated that the work to modernise Wembley Park station will start on 1 March 2004.