Wembley Stadium train station closed for Taylor Swift’s Eras concerts
Wembley Stadium train station will be closed over the weekend for the Taylor Swift Eras tour concerts to avoid overcrowding.
The stadium in north-west London has capacity for 90,000 people, so it’s safe to say the area will be busy on Saturday and on Sunday.
Wembley railway station is closest to the stadium, but fans will have to find other ways to travel there such as the Underground, after Chiltern Railways said its services will not stop at the stadium over the weekend.
This is because Chiltern is already taking on board thousands of additional customers because of the temporary closure of the route between London Euston and Birmingham New Street for engineering works.
Chiltern said it does not have capacity for concertgoers as well.
A spokesperson for the rail company said: ‘We are putting on additional and longer trains as Chiltern will be the only rail route operating between London and Birmingham.
‘It isn’t possible to also run extra services for the concerts because we don’t have the number of trains that would be needed.’
With other public transport options available to the stadium, the company has had to ‘take the difficult decision to not serve these concerts.’
However, it will run an ‘enhanced’ service for the five Eras concerts at Wembley in August.
Travelling from central London to Wembley Stadium for Taylor Swift concerts
Luckily, the train is not the only way to get there.
The nearest London Underground station is Wembley Park, which is about 12 minute walk (without any crowds).
It is served by the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines.
If you don’t mind the walk before the hours-long concert, or after, wild-card options further away are Stonebridge Park Station and North Wembley.
Both are around 30 minutes away on foot, with service by the Overground and Underground’s Bakerloo line.
Travel influencer Candace Salters shared a hack for the London Eras tour on her Instagram.
She suggested fans take the Jubilee line northbound from Wembley Park station away from central London for one stop to Kingsbury, then get on the southbound train.
Candace said the northbound platform is likely to be less busy than the southbound one.
This way you will already get a spot on the carriage by the time it rolls into the packed Wembley Park.
Transport for London said the capital’s transport network, including Wembley Park station, is used to handling crowds during concerts, matches and events.
It will work closely with Wembley Stadium, with crowd control measures in place on public transport to ensure ‘all Swifties get to and from the concerts safely,’ TfL said.
On Friday, TfL delighted fans by revealing ‘Taylor’s Version’ of the Tube map, with line and stations named after her albums and songs.