It is the nearest station to Wembley Stadium, and is located a quarter of a mile (400 m) south west of the sports venue.

It then curved round in a clockwise direction to regain the Chiltern Main Line at a point slightly closer to Neasden Junction.

[3] The station was last used on 18 May 1968 for the 1968 FA Cup final between Everton v West Bromwich Albion,[4] and was officially closed on 1 September 1969.

Temporary sidings led into the "Palace of Engineering" exhibition hall where both the Great Western Railway's locomotive Caerphilly Castle and the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman were displayed, with each claimed by its owners to be the most powerful passenger locomotive in Britain.

[11] There were originally four tracks with the two platforms on passing loops outside the inner non-stop running lines; the current two-track layout dates from the 1960s.