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Uxbridge is the terminus for the Uxbridge branches of both the Piccadilly Line and the Metropolitan Line
of the London Underground.
The Uxbridge branch opened for the Metropolitan Line on 4 July 1904, and for the Piccadilly Line on 23 October 1933. The original station was replaced by the current one on a new site a few hundred yards away
on 4 December 1938.
Uxbridge's original station was located in Belmont Road (now used as sidings) and was constructed with a view to a possible
extension of the Metropolitan line. The original station had two platforms - one each for the Metropolitan line and District Line, (the latter being replaced by the Piccadilly Line).
The frontage of the station is an attractive brick building, with some interesting railway inspired sculptures above the main
entrance, and the canopy over the platforms is a concrete and glass structure. There are some marked similarities between this
station and Cockfosters, the terminus at the
northern end of the Piccadilly Line.
The forecourt of the new station was originally laid out to provide a turning circle for trolleybuses, which had replaced the
local trams in 1936.
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