Harrow-on-the-Hill station Harrow-on-the-Hill station Harrow-on-the-Hill is a London Underground station served by the Metropolitan line and National Rail services, in Travelcard Zone 5. The stations two exits are located between College Road and Lowlands Road in the Greenhill area of Harrow, about half a mile north of the locality from which it takes its name. This is where the branch from Uxbridge joins the main line and where fast and slow lines are divided. The station is the junction of four LU tracks from Baker Street (paired by direction), two Network Rail tracks from Marylebone, four LU tracks (paired by speed) to
Suicide on the London Underground rushes on overhead". A study of 58 cases showed that the presence of a suicide pit halved the number of deaths. Another safety mechanism are platform edge doors (PEDs), which separate the train from the passengers. These are installed exclusively at the below-ground stations of the Jubilee Line Extension. PEDs are expensive to install and can fail to open, adding a potential reliability problem to train services. Alison Wertheimer wrote in 2001 that there were 100–150 suicides annually on the Underground. The annual number of suicides in the 1940s was 25, increasing to 100 by the 1980s, which, according to