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The station is located to the west of Station Road and is formed around a bridge over the tracks.
The station has two entrances. The main entrance is onto a small forecourt in the southwest corner of the junction between Wealdstone High Street (north), Station Road (south), Ellen Webb Drive (west) and Masons Avenue (south of east). The second (south) entrance is accessed from the station car park off Churchill Place.
The paved area outside the main entrance is bounded by a taxi lay-by (to the north), a cycle track (to the west) and the station building (to the south). The booking hall juts out from the rest of the building.
If you follow the building round to your left, as you leave the station, you turn left (south), pass two blank doors, before you reach the wall. There are five coin and card phone boxes to your right at this point.
There's a zebra crossing over Station Road to your right, as you leave the main entrance. Go to the end of the building and follow the obvious tactile paving.
To reach Wealdstone, go to the kerb, turn left and follow the pavement round to your right. You pass a post (marking the end of the taxi lay-by), a lamp post and bin, before you reach the tactile paving for the crossing towards Masons Avenue. There's a badly positioned post, to your left, indicating the bicycle track, as you reach the tactile paving. Continue, following the pavement round to your left, to locate the crossing of Ellen Webb Drive.
The crossing towards Masons Avenue has a push button and rotating cone to
each side. You cross to a triangular island in the junction between Station
Road, (right) and Masons Avenue (front). Bear left to locate the crossing of
the north side of Masons Avenue (towards the High Street), this crossing also
has a push button and rotating cone to each side.
Note, whilst there's tactile paving indicating a way across the south side of
Masons Avenue (to your right, as you reach the island),
there's no traffic light controlled crossing at this point.
The crossing of Ellen Webb Drive (towards the High Street) is a two-stage crossing. There's a push button to each side, for the first stage, and to your right only, on the central island, which is indicated by tactile paving - no barriers.
There's a single-stage crossing of the High Street, just north of the junction, with the push button to your right (as you cross in either direction).
The bus stop for the northbound 140, 182, 186, 258 and 340 buses is in a lay-by on Station Road, about 30 metres south of the main entrance, whilst that for the southbound buses is opposite this.
© 2003 Terry Robinson