Wembley Central is an interchange station on the West Coast Main Line with the London Overground and the Bakerloo Line of the London Underground.
The through line opened on 20 July 1837 as part of the London and Birmingham Railway. Wembley Central opened as ’Sudbury’ in 1842 before becoming ’Sudbury & Wembley’ in 1882 and ’Wembley for Sudbury’ in 1910.
On 16 April 1917, the Bakerloo line service commenced and on 5 July 1948 the station was renamed ’Wembley Central’.
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