St John's Wood tube station
Jubilee line · Zone 2 · City of Westminster
About St John's Wood station
Late-1938 tube maps showed this stop as Acacia Road, after the street on whose corner with Finchley Road it stands. By the time it opened, on 20 November 1939, it had become St John’s Wood, a station on a newly bored deep-level tunnel between Baker Street and Finchley Road that took the Metropolitan’s Stanmore services onto the Bakerloo line. It replaced two Metropolitan stations that had closed the day before: Marlborough Road, and Lord’s, which had itself been called St. John’s Wood Road and then St. John’s Wood. The Stanmore branch, and the station with it, moved to the Jubilee line on 1 May 1979.
Much of 1939 survives. The building, by Stanley Heaps, is Grade II listed, the platforms keep their original design with ceramic relief tiles by Harold Stabler (cleaned and replaced in 2006), and the up-lighters lining the escalator, lighting the way from street to platform, date from the opening. In March 2007 the station hosted an unusual experiment: harmless sulphur hexafluoride was released and tracked to learn how toxic gas might spread through the Underground in an attack, while trains kept running normally.
First and last trains from St John's Wood
| Line and direction | Mon–Thu first – last | Friday first – last | Saturday first – last | Sunday first – last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jubilee towards Stanmore, Wembley Park or West Hampstead | 05:45 – 00:43 | 05:45 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 00:07 |
| Jubilee towards Stratford, North Greenwich or West Ham | 05:19 – 00:38 | 05:19 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 23:52 |
Times are TfL’s published timetable departures from this station; on Saturday the list follows TfL’s “Saturdays and public holidays” timetable.
At the busiest hour on a weekday there are up to 28 Jubilee trains an hour per direction from St John’s Wood, counting both directions separately.
Next stations from St John's Wood
Running times between St John’s Wood and the adjoining stations, from TfL’s timetable.
| Line | Next station | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Jubilee | Baker Street | 2.8 min |
| Jubilee | Swiss Cottage | 1.4 min |
Connections
St John’s Wood is served by the Jubilee line only; there is no interchange with other rail lines here.
Station facilities
What is near St John's Wood station
This is the nearest station to Lord’s Cricket Ground and to Abbey Road Studios, and during some events at Lord’s it becomes exit only. The famous Abbey Road Crossing is about 360 m away, while St. John’s Wood Library is around 140 m from the station and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth roughly 160 m. Bus routes 13, 46, 113 and 187, plus night route N113, call here.
| Place | Walk from the station |
|---|---|
| Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth | 160 m |
| St. John's Wood Library | 140 m |
| Abbey Road Crossing | 360 m |