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Over the years there have been a lot of station name changes. Here is a list of stations with their also known as (A.KA) names - dates for when the name changes took place can be found on each of the stations Wikipedia pages.

* denotes that the name is still shown on the platforms either as a sign, or in the tiles on the walls. The list is presented as: 


Today's name - Also known as  
(Red = Abandoned / Disused)

Acton Central - Acton

Acton Town - Mill Hill Park

Aldwych - Strand

(Not to be confused with  today's Charing Cross (Strand) - Piccadilly line)

Alperton - Perivale Alperton

Amersham - Amersham & Chesham Bois

Anerley - Anerley Bridge

Archway - Archway (Highgate)

                - Highgate (Archway

(Not to be confused with today's Highgate - Northern line)

Arsenal - Gillespie Road*

Bank - City (Waterloo & City line)

​​Barbican - Aldersgate Street 

    - Aldersgate

                         - Aldersgate & Barbican

Bayswater - Bayswater (Queen's Road) & Westbourne Grove

- Bayswater (Queen's Road)

-   Bayswater (Queensway)

Becontree - Gale Street

Bickley (Thameslink) - Southborough Road

Blackfriars - St. Paul's

(Not to be confused with today's St Paul's - Central line)

Boston Manor - Boston Road

Brent Cross - Brent

Bromley-by-Bow - Bromley

Bromley South (Thameslink) - Bromley

Brondesbury (Overground) - Edgware Road (Kilburn)

(Not to be confused with either of today's Edgware Road stations on the Bakerloo line, or the Circle /  District / Hammersmith & City)

Burnham - Burnham Beeches and Burnham (Bucks)

Burnt Oak - Sheves Hill/Orange Hill/Deansbrook

Proposed before opening:  Burnt Oak (Watling)

Bushey - Ampersand

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury - Caledonian Road

(Not to be confused with today's Caledonian Road on the Piccadilly line)

- Barnsbury

Canning Town - Barking Road

Canonbury (Overground) - Newington Road and Balls Pond Road

Canons Park - Canons Park (Edgware)

Chalfont & Latimer - Chalfont Road

Chancery Lane - Chancery Lane (Grays Inn)

Charing Cross - Trafalgar Square (Bakerloo line)

 - Charing Cross (Strand) (Northern Line)

 - Strand  (Not to be confused with the abandoned Aldwych (Strand))

Chiswick Park - Acton Green

- Chiswick Park & Acton Green

Chorleywood - Chorley Wood & Chenies

      - Chorley Wood

City Thameslink - St. Paul's Thameslink

(Not to be confused with today's St. Paul's on the Central line)

Clapham High Street (Overground) - Clapham

 -Clapham & North Stockwell

Clapham North - Clapham Road

Cricklewood (Thameslink) - Childs Hill and Cricklewood

Crossharbour - Crossharbour and London Arena

Croxley - Croxley Green

Dagenham East - Dagenham

Dagenham Heathway - Heathway

Debden - Chigwell Road

              - Chigwell Lane

(Not to be confused with today's Chigwell on the Central line)

Dollis Hill - Dollis Hill and Gladstone Park

Ealing Common - Ealing Common and West Acton

East Croydon - Croydon

- Croydon East

 - East Croydon Main

East India (DLR) - Brunswick Wharf

Edmonton Green (Overground) - Edmonton (High level)

Elstree & Borehamwood (Thameslink) - Elstree

Embankment - Charing Cross 

- Charing Cross Embankment

(Not to be confused with today's Charing Cross on the Bakerloo /  Northern lines )

Emerson Park - Emerson Park Halt

Enfield Town (Overground) - Enfield

Euston Square - Gower Street

Farringdon - Farringdon Street

- Farringdon & High Holborn

Finchley Central - Finchley & Hendon

 - Finchley (Church End)

Forest Hill (Overground) - Dartmouth Arms

Fulham Broadway - Walham Green

Gidea Park - Squirrels Heath & Gidea Park

Gloucester Road - Brompton (Gloucester Road)

(Not to be confused with the abandoned Brompton Road)

Goodge Street - Tottenham Court Road

(Not to be confused with  today's Tottenham Court Road)

Gospel Oak (Overground) - Kentish Town

(Not to be confused with today's Kentish Town)

Great Portland Street - Portland Road

- Great Portland Street & Regent's Park

Green Park - Dover Street

Gunnersbury - Brentford Road

Hackney Central (Overground) - Hackney

Hackney Downs (Overground) - Hackney Downs Junction

Hamstead - Heath Street*

Hanwell - Hanwell & Ethorne

Harrow & Wealdstone - Harrow

(Not to be confused with today's Harrow-on-the-Hill on the Metropolitan line)

Harrow-on-the-Hill - Harrow

(Not to be confused with today's Harrow & Wealdstone on the Bakerloo line )

Hatch End (Overground) - Pinner

- Pinner & Hatch End

(Not to be confused with  today's Pinner on the Metropolitan line )

Haydons Road (Thameslink) - Haydens Lane

Hayes & Harlington - Hayes
 

Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 - Heathrow Central*

- Heathrow Central Terminals 1,2, 3

Highams Park (Overground) - Hale End

Highbury & Islington - Highbury

Hillingdon - Hillingdon (Swakeleys)

Holborn - Holborn (Kingsway)

Hounslow Central - Heston Hounslow

Hounslow East - Hounslow Town

Hounslow West - Hounslow Barracks

Ickenham - Ickenham Halt

Kensal Rise (Overground) - Kensal Green 

(Not to be confused with today's Kensal Green on the Bakerloo line )

Kensington (Olympia) - Kensington

- Addison Road*

Kentish Town West (Overground) - Kentish Town

(Not to be confused with Kentish Town)

Kilburn - Kilburn & Brondesbury

Kilburn High Road (Overground) - Kilburn & Maida Vale

King's Cross St Pancras - King's Cross

- Kings Cross for St. Pancras

Ladbroke Grove - Notting Hill

(Not to be confused with today's Notting Hill Gate on the Central / Circle / District lines )

- Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove

- Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)

Lambeth North - Kennington Road

- Westminster Bridge Road

(Not to be confused with either today's Kennington or Westminster stations)

Lewisham (DLR) - Lewisham Junction

Leyton - Low Leyton

Leyton Midland Road (Overground) - Leyton

(Not to be confused with today's Leyton on the Central line)

Leytonstone High Road (Overground) - Leytonstone

(Not to be confused with today's Leytonstone)

 

Limehouse (DLR) - Stepney East

Liverpool Street - Bishopsgate

Loughborough Junction (Thameslink) - Loughborough Road

 

Lords - St Johns Wood Road

(Not to be confused with  today's St. John's Wood on the Jubilee line) 

 

Mark Lane - Tower Hill

(Not to be confused with Today's Tower Hill) 

Maryland - Maryland Point
 

Marylebone - Great Central*

Mill Hill Broadway (Thameslink) - Mill Hill

Mill Hill East - Mill Hill

- Bittacy Hill

Monument - Eastcheap

Moor Park - Sandy Lodge

- Moor Park & Sandy Lodge

Moorgate - Moorgate Street

Neasden - Kingsbury & Neasden

- Neasden & Kingsbury

New Barnet (Thameslink) - Barnet

New Southgate (Thameslink) - Southgate & Colney Hatch

- New Southgate & Colney Hatch

- New Southgate & Friern Barnet

Northfields - Northfield Halt

- Northfields & Little Ealing

Northwick Park - Northwick Park & Kenton

Norwood Junction (Overground) - Jolly Sailor

Oakwood - Enfield West

- Enfield West (Oakwood)

Oval - Kennington Oval

- The Oval

Paddington  - Paddington (Praed Street)

Paddington - Paddington (Bishop's Road)

Park Royal - Park Royal (Hanger Hill)

Perivale - Perivale Halt

Preston Road - Preston Road Halt for Uxendon and Kenton

Purley (Thameslink) - Godstone Road

- Caterham Junction

Putney Bridge - Putney Bridge & Fulham

- Putney Bridge & Hurlingham

Queen's Park - Queen's Park (West Kilburn)

Queensway - Queen's Road

Ravenscourt Park - Shaftesbury Road

Rayners Lane - Harrow Garden Village

Roding Valley - Roding Valley Halt

Ruislip Manor - Ruislip Manor Halt

St. Mary's - Whitechapel Road

(Not to be confused with today's Whitechapel on the District / Hammersmith & City / Overground / Elizabeth lines )

Shadwell (Overground) - Shadwell & St. George-in-the-East

Shenfield - Shenfield & Hutton Junction

Shepherd's Bush Market - Shepherd's Bush

(Not to be confused with today's Shepherd's Bush on the Central line)

Slade Green (Thameslink) - Slades Green

Snaresbrook - Snaresbrook & Wanstead

South Hampstead (Overground) - Louden Road

South Ruislip - Northolt Junction

- South Ruislip & Northolt Junction

South Wimbledon - South Wimbledon (Merton)

South Woodford - George Lane

- South Woodford (George Lane)

Southall - Punjabi: ਸਾਊਥਾਲ

Southbury (Overground) - Churchbury

St. Paul's - Post Office

Stratford High Street (DLR) - Stratford Bridge

- Stratford Market

Surrey Quays (Overground) - Deptford Road

- Surrey Docks

Swanley (Thameslink) - Sevenoaks Junction

Taplow - Maidenhead Riverside

- Maidenhead and Taplow

Temple - The Temple

Theydon Bois - Theydon

Tooting Bec - Trinity Road (Tooting Bec)

Tottenham Court Road - Oxford Street

Totteridge & Whetstone - Totteridge

Tower Hill - Tower of London

Turkey Street (Overground) - Forty Hill

Vauxhall - Vauxhall Bridge Station

(Mainline station, not Victoria line)

Walthamstow Central - Hoe Street

(Mainline only)

Walthamstow Queen's Road (Overground) - Walthamstow

Wapping (Overground) - Wapping and Shadwell

Warren Street - Euston Road*

Wembley Central - Sudbury

 -Sudbury & Wembley

- Wembley for Sudbury

West Croydon (Overground) - Croydon

West Drayton (Elizabeth line) - West Drayton and Yiewsley

West Ealing (Elizabeth line) - Castle Hill and Ealing Dene

West Ham - West Ham (Manor Road)

West Hampstead (Overground) - West End Lane

West Hampstead Thameslink - West End for Kilburn and Hampstead

- West End

- West End and Brondesbury

- West Hampstead Midland

West Kensington - North End

West Ruislip - Ruislip & Ickenham

- West Ruislip (for Ickenham)

Westminster -  Westminster Bridge

White City - Wood Lane

(Not to be confused with either the current White City or Wood Lane)

Whitechapel - Whitechapel (Mile End)

Willesden Green - Willesden Green and Cricklewood

Wimbledon - Wimbledon and Merton

Wood Street (Overground) - Walthamstow Wood Street

Woodside (Trams) - Woodside and South Norwood (Railway station)

Woodside Park- Torrington Park, Woodside

 - Woodside Park for North Finchley

- Woodside Park and North Finchley for Woodside Garden Suburb

© Paul R. Barton 2026

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