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	'''Pinner''' is a [[London Underground]] station in [[Pinner]], north-west [[London]]. The station was opened in 1885 as part of the Victorian expansion of dormitory suburbs, and was one of the stations included in the [[Metro-land]] project in the early 20th century. The site is served by several bus routes including links to the [[Hatch End railway station]] which was known as Pinner & Hatch End prior to 1920. Step free facilities were opened in 2008. The station is on the [[Metropolitan line]] between [[Northwood Hills tube station\|Northwood Hills]] and [[North Harrow tube station\|North Harrow]] stations, and is in [[List of stations in London fare zone 5\|Travelcard Zone 5]].

	Pinner is served by all stations and semi-fast services~~, one~~ should change at [[Moor Park tube station\|Moor Park]] for fast service northbound Metropolitan line services. This change is only needed on Mondays-Fridays during peak hours.		'''Pinner''' is a [[London Underground]] station in [[Pinner]], north-west [[London]]. The station was opened in 1885 as part of the Victorian expansion of dormitory suburbs, and was one of the stations included in the [[Metro-land]] project in the early 20th century. The site is served by several bus routes including links to the [[Hatch End railway station]] which was known as Pinner & Hatch End prior to 1920. Step free facilities were opened in 2008. The station is on the [[Metropolitan line]], between [[Northwood Hills tube station\|Northwood Hills]] and [[North Harrow tube station\|North Harrow]] stations. It is in [[London fare zone 5]].

			Pinner is served by all stations and semi-fast services: passengers should change at [[Moor Park tube station\|Moor Park]] for fast service northbound Metropolitan line services. This change is only needed on Mondays to Fridays during peak hours.

	==History==		==History==
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	The station was opened on 25 May 1885,<ref name="moving">{{cite book \| last=Institution of Civil Engineers \| title=Moving People in Tomorrow's World: Proceedings \| publisher=Telford \| date=December 1987 \| pages=39 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6SxsVRk3AUC&q=pinner+%22london+underground%22&pg=PA39 \| isbn=9780727703910 }}</ref> following a prior expansion to nearby [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station]] in 1880.<ref name="metrofacts" /> It remained the terminus of the [[Metropolitan Railway]] until 1 September 1887 when the line was further extended to [[Rickmansworth station\|Rickmansworth]].<ref name="moving" /> The long, single-story station building on the up (southbound) platform is the original building, and resembles the stations at Rickmansworth, Chorleywood and Chalfont & Latimer. The down platform buildings were built during the four-tracking project of the 1950s and 60s in a matching yellow brick.		The station was opened on 25 May 1885,<ref name="moving">{{cite book \| last=Institution of Civil Engineers \| title=Moving People in Tomorrow's World: Proceedings \| publisher=Telford \| date=December 1987 \| pages=39 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6SxsVRk3AUC&q=pinner+%22london+underground%22&pg=PA39 \| isbn=9780727703910 }}</ref> following a prior expansion to nearby [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station]] in 1880.<ref name="metrofacts" /> It remained the terminus of the [[Metropolitan Railway]] until 1 September 1887 when the line was further extended to [[Rickmansworth station\|Rickmansworth]].<ref name="moving" /> The long, single-story station building on the up (southbound) platform is the original building, and resembles the stations at Rickmansworth, Chorleywood and Chalfont & Latimer. The down platform buildings were built during the four-tracking project of the 1950s and 60s in a matching yellow brick.

	In 1915, the [[Metro-land]] project was conceived in order to move people out of central London into rural [[Middlesex]]. Houses near the stations were built in haste and sold for as little as £400 each. However, in Pinner houses built during this expansion were required to be worth at least £1,000 – compared to [[Harrow-on-the-Hill]] where prices were subject to a £750 minimum.<ref name="telegraph_3353156">{{cite news \| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3353156/Betjemans-metro-land-revisited.html \| title=Betjeman's metro-land revisited \| last=Clark \| first=Ross \| date=26 September 2006 \| work=The Daily Telegraph\| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108061830/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3353156/Betjemans-metro-land-revisited.html \| archive-date=2009-11-08 \| url-status=dead }}</ref>		In 1915, the [[Metro-land]] project was conceived in order to move people out of central London into rural [[Middlesex]]. Houses near the stations were built in haste and sold for as little as £400 each. However, in Pinner, houses built during this expansion were required to be worth at least £1,000 – compared to [[Harrow-on-the-Hill]] where prices were subject to a £750 minimum.<ref name="telegraph_3353156">{{cite news \| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3353156/Betjemans-metro-land-revisited.html \| title=Betjeman's metro-land revisited \| last=Clark \| first=Ross \| date=26 September 2006 \| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]\| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108061830/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3353156/Betjemans-metro-land-revisited.html \| archive-date=2009-11-08 \| url-status=dead }}</ref>

	The station building on Station Approach is locally listed by the Harrow Council.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www2/documents/s74005/Locally \|page=10 \|title=Locally Listed Buildings \|publisher=Harrow Council \|date=July 2010 \|access-date=18 December 2018 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218121640/http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www2/documents/s74005/Locally \|archive-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>		The station building on Station Approach is locally listed by the Harrow Council.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www2/documents/s74005/Locally \|page=10 \|title=Locally Listed Buildings \|publisher=Harrow Council \|date=July 2010 \|access-date=18 December 2018 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218121640/http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www2/documents/s74005/Locally \|archive-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>
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	London bus routes [[London Buses route 183\|183]], [[London Buses route H11\|H11]], [[London Buses route H12\|H12]] and [[London Buses route H13\|H13]] serve the station's location and provide services that terminate at [[Golders Green]], [[Harrow, London\|Harrow]], [[Mount Vernon Hospital]], [[Northwood Hills (St Vincent's hospice)]], [[Ruislip Lido]], [[South Harrow]] and [[Stanmore]].<ref name="tfl_2433">{{cite web \| url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/pinner-2433.pdf \| title=Buses from Pinner \| date=March 2010 \| publisher=Transport for London \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419171623/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/pinner-2433.pdf \| archive-date=2009-04-19 \| url-status=live }}</ref> The H12 route also connects Pinner tube station to [[Hatch End railway station]], which was named Pinner & Hatch End between 1911 and 1920 before being renamed Hatch End (for Pinner) and then, in 1956, Hatch End.<ref name="tfl_13162">{{cite web \| url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13162.aspx \| title=Bakerloo line facts \| publisher=Transport for London \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209155411/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13162.aspx \| archive-date=2010-02-09 \| url-status=live }}</ref> [[Northwood Hills tube station\|Northwood Hills station]] is {{convert\|2.08\|km}} to the north west and [[North Harrow tube station\|North Harrow]] is {{convert\|1.48\|km}} to the south east on the [[Metropolitan line]].<ref name="Inter Station Database">{{cite web \| url=http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1779/response/5516/attach/3/Inter%20station%20database.xls \| format=XLS \| title=Inter Station Database \| publisher=[[Transport for London]] \| last=Baker \| first=Charles \| year=2006 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312033531/http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1779/response/5516/attach/3/Inter%20station%20database.xls \| archive-date=2012-03-12 \| url-status=live }}</ref>		London bus routes [[London Buses route 183\|183]], [[London Buses route H11\|H11]], [[London Buses route H12\|H12]] and [[London Buses route H13\|H13]] serve the station's location and provide services that terminate at [[Golders Green]], [[Harrow, London\|Harrow]], [[Mount Vernon Hospital]], [[Northwood Hills (St Vincent's hospice)]], [[Ruislip Lido]], [[South Harrow]] and [[Stanmore]].<ref name="tfl_2433">{{cite web \| url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/pinner-2433.pdf \| title=Buses from Pinner \| date=March 2010 \| publisher=Transport for London \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419171623/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/pinner-2433.pdf \| archive-date=2009-04-19 \| url-status=live }}</ref> The H12 route also connects Pinner tube station to [[Hatch End railway station]], which was named Pinner & Hatch End between 1911 and 1920 before being renamed Hatch End (for Pinner) and then, in 1956, Hatch End.<ref name="tfl_13162">{{cite web \| url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13162.aspx \| title=Bakerloo line facts \| publisher=Transport for London \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209155411/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13162.aspx \| archive-date=2010-02-09 \| url-status=live }}</ref> [[Northwood Hills tube station\|Northwood Hills station]] is {{convert\|2.08\|km}} to the north west and [[North Harrow tube station\|North Harrow]] is {{convert\|1.48\|km}} to the south east on the [[Metropolitan line]].<ref name="Inter Station Database">{{cite web \| url=http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1779/response/5516/attach/3/Inter%20station%20database.xls \| format=XLS \| title=Inter Station Database \| publisher=[[Transport for London]] \| last=Baker \| first=Charles \| year=2006 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312033531/http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1779/response/5516/attach/3/Inter%20station%20database.xls \| archive-date=2012-03-12 \| url-status=live }}</ref>

	Access to the southbound platform is step-free from the ticket hall. In order to reach the northbound platform, during off-peak times, it is necessary to use a [[footbridge]], which was constructed in 2002. Before this, a subway between the two platforms existed, but this was closed for safety reasons. Accessibility lifts opened on 18 July 2008 making the station totally step-free. Originally scheduled for installation in 2005, the delay had been caused by a lack of funding and was originally rescheduled for 2009/10 but following complaints by the Harrow Public Transport Users Association the construction was brought forward to 2007 only to be delayed by the collapse of London Underground contractors [[Metronet (British infrastructure company)\|Metronet]].<ref name="harrow_21443554">{{cite web \| url=http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/07/31/mood-lifted-for-commuters-as-work-finally-ends-116451-21443554/ \| title=Mood 'lifted' for commuters as work finally ends \| last=Baker \| first=David \| date=31 July 2008 \| publisher=Harrow Observer \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727142901/http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/07/31/mood-lifted-for-commuters-as-work-finally-ends-116451-21443554/ \| archive-date=2011-07-27 \| url-status=dead}}</ref>		Access to the southbound platform is step-free from the ticket hall. In order to reach the northbound platform, during off-peak times, it is necessary to use a [[footbridge]], which was constructed in 2002. Before this, a subway between the two platforms existed, but this was closed for safety reasons. Accessibility lifts opened on 18 July 2008 making the station totally step-free. Originally scheduled for installation in 2005, the delay had been caused by a lack of funding and was originally rescheduled for 2009/10 but following complaints by the Harrow Public Transport Users Association the construction was brought forward to 2007 only to be delayed by the collapse of London Underground contractors [[Metronet (British infrastructure company)\|Metronet]].<ref name="harrow_21443554">{{cite web \| url=http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/07/31/mood-lifted-for-commuters-as-work-finally-ends-116451-21443554/ \| title=Mood 'lifted' for commuters as work finally ends \| last=Baker \| first=David \| date=31 July 2008 \| publisher=[[Harrow Observer]] \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727142901/http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/07/31/mood-lifted-for-commuters-as-work-finally-ends-116451-21443554/ \| archive-date=2011-07-27 \| url-status=dead}}</ref>
	During the evening peak there is an extra exit gate on the south end of the Northbound platform which leads out to a small carpark and Pinner Library/Synagogue		During the evening peak, there is an extra exit gate on the south end of the Northbound platform, which leads out to a small carpark and Pinner Library/Synagogue.

	==Services==		==Services==

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{{short description|London Underground station}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox London station|symbol=underground| name = Pinner
| image_name =Pinner tube station.jpg
| caption = Station building
| coordinates = {{coord|51.5928|-0.3806|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| railcode =
| manager = [[London Underground]]
| fare_zone = 5
| locale = [[Pinner]]
| borough = [[London Borough of Harrow]]
| events1 = Opened<ref name="metrofacts">{{cite web | url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/linefacts/?line=metropolitan | title=Metropolitan line facts | publisher=Transport for London | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502153301/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/linefacts/?line=metropolitan | archive-date=2007-05-02 | url-status=live }}</ref>
| years1 = 25 May 1885
| events2 = Goods yard closed<ref name="UN591">{{cite journal | title=How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago | journal=Underground News | date=March 2011 | issue=591 | pages=175–183 | editor1-first=Brian | editor1-last=Hardy | publisher=London Underground Railway Society | issn=0306-8617 }}</ref>
| years2 = 3 April 1967
| platforms = 2

| access = yes
| access_note = <ref>{{citation step free tube map}}</ref>
}}
'''Pinner''' is a [[London Underground]] station in [[Pinner]], north-west [[London]]. The station was opened in 1885 as part of the Victorian expansion of dormitory suburbs, and was one of the stations included in the [[Metro-land]] project in the early 20th century. The site is served by several bus routes including links to the [[Hatch End railway station]] which was known as Pinner & Hatch End prior to 1920. Step free facilities were opened in 2008. The station is on the [[Metropolitan line]] between [[Northwood Hills tube station|Northwood Hills]] and [[North Harrow tube station|North Harrow]] stations, and is in [[List of stations in London fare zone 5|Travelcard Zone 5]].

Pinner is served by all stations and semi-fast services, one should change at [[Moor Park tube station|Moor Park]] for fast service northbound Metropolitan line services. This change is only needed on Mondays-Fridays during peak hours.

==History==
[[File:Pinner London Underground Station Garden Winner 1966.jpg|thumb|left|The gardens at Pinner station, London Underground Station Garden winner in 1966.]]
The station was opened on 25 May 1885,<ref name="moving">{{cite book | last=Institution of Civil Engineers | title=Moving People in Tomorrow's World: Proceedings | publisher=Telford | date=December 1987 | pages=39 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6SxsVRk3AUC&q=pinner+%22london+underground%22&pg=PA39 | isbn=9780727703910 }}</ref> following a prior expansion to nearby [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station]] in 1880.<ref name="metrofacts" /> It remained the terminus of the [[Metropolitan Railway]] until 1 September 1887 when the line was further extended to [[Rickmansworth station|Rickmansworth]].<ref name="moving" /> The long, single-story station building on the up (southbound) platform is the original building, and resembles the stations at Rickmansworth, Chorleywood and Chalfont & Latimer. The down platform buildings were built during the four-tracking project of the 1950s and 60s in a matching yellow brick.

In 1915, the [[Metro-land]] project was conceived in order to move people out of central London into rural [[Middlesex]]. Houses near the stations were built in haste and sold for as little as £400 each. However, in Pinner houses built during this expansion were required to be worth at least £1,000 – compared to [[Harrow-on-the-Hill]] where prices were subject to a £750 minimum.<ref name="telegraph_3353156">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3353156/Betjemans-metro-land-revisited.html | title=Betjeman's metro-land revisited | last=Clark | first=Ross | date=26 September 2006 | work=The Daily Telegraph| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108061830/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3353156/Betjemans-metro-land-revisited.html | archive-date=2009-11-08 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

The station building on Station Approach is locally listed by the Harrow Council.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www2/documents/s74005/Locally |page=10 |title=Locally Listed Buildings |publisher=Harrow Council |date=July 2010 |access-date=18 December 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218121640/http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www2/documents/s74005/Locally |archive-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>

==Location==
London bus routes [[London Buses route 183|183]], [[London Buses route H11|H11]], [[London Buses route H12|H12]] and [[London Buses route H13|H13]] serve the station's location and provide services that terminate at [[Golders Green]], [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], [[Mount Vernon Hospital]], [[Northwood Hills (St Vincent's hospice)]], [[Ruislip Lido]], [[South Harrow]] and [[Stanmore]].<ref name="tfl_2433">{{cite web | url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/pinner-2433.pdf | title=Buses from Pinner | date=March 2010 | publisher=Transport for London | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419171623/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/pinner-2433.pdf | archive-date=2009-04-19 | url-status=live }}</ref> The H12 route also connects Pinner tube station to [[Hatch End railway station]], which was named Pinner & Hatch End between 1911 and 1920 before being renamed Hatch End (for Pinner) and then, in 1956, Hatch End.<ref name="tfl_13162">{{cite web | url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13162.aspx | title=Bakerloo line facts | publisher=Transport for London | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209155411/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13162.aspx | archive-date=2010-02-09 | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Northwood Hills tube station|Northwood Hills station]] is {{convert|2.08|km}} to the north west and [[North Harrow tube station|North Harrow]] is {{convert|1.48|km}} to the south east on the [[Metropolitan line]].<ref name="Inter Station Database">{{cite web | url=http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1779/response/5516/attach/3/Inter%20station%20database.xls | format=XLS | title=Inter Station Database | publisher=[[Transport for London]] | last=Baker | first=Charles | year=2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312033531/http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1779/response/5516/attach/3/Inter%20station%20database.xls | archive-date=2012-03-12 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Access to the southbound platform is step-free from the ticket hall. In order to reach the northbound platform, during off-peak times, it is necessary to use a [[footbridge]], which was constructed in 2002. Before this, a subway between the two platforms existed, but this was closed for safety reasons. Accessibility lifts opened on 18 July 2008 making the station totally step-free. Originally scheduled for installation in 2005, the delay had been caused by a lack of funding and was originally rescheduled for 2009/10 but following complaints by the Harrow Public Transport Users Association the construction was brought forward to 2007 only to be delayed by the collapse of London Underground contractors [[Metronet (British infrastructure company)|Metronet]].<ref name="harrow_21443554">{{cite web | url=http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/07/31/mood-lifted-for-commuters-as-work-finally-ends-116451-21443554/ | title=Mood 'lifted' for commuters as work finally ends | last=Baker | first=David | date=31 July 2008 | publisher=Harrow Observer | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727142901/http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/07/31/mood-lifted-for-commuters-as-work-finally-ends-116451-21443554/ | archive-date=2011-07-27 | url-status=dead}}</ref>
During the evening peak there is an extra exit gate on the south end of the Northbound platform which leads out to a small carpark and Pinner Library/Synagogue

==Services==
Pinner station is on the Metropolitan line between [[Northwood Hills tube station|Northwood Hills]] to the north and [[North Harrow tube station|North Harrow]] to the south. In the northbound direction, off-peak, the station is served by trains to [[Watford tube station|Watford]] (4tph), [[Amersham tube station|Amersham]] (2tph) and [[Chesham tube station|Chesham]] (2tph) trains (at peak times, 'fast' trains do not stop at stations between [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station|Harrow-on-the-Hill]] and [[Moor Park tube station|Moor Park]]). In the southbound direction, off-peak services generally run 4tph to [[Baker Street tube station|Baker Street]] and 4tph to [[Aldgate tube station|Aldgate]].

{{Adjacent stations|system=London Underground|line=Metropolitan|left=Northwood Hills|right=North Harrow|type=Three}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Pinner station look east2.JPG|Northbound platform looking east
File:Pinner station look west.JPG|Southbound platform looking west
Image:Pinner tube roundel.jpg|Station platform roundel
Image:Pinner tube flowerbeds 2.jpg|The flowerbeds today
</gallery>

==External links==
{{commons category|Pinner tube station}}
* [https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs London Transport Museum Photographic Archive]

** {{LTM archive|1998-68258|Pinner station ticket hall, 1934}}
** {{LTM archive|1998-54614|Northbound platform, July 1955}}
** {{LTM archive|1998-34421|Construction of the passenger subway to Cecil Park, January 1960}}

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