Ealing Broadway Station

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View of the platforms

The Ealing Broadway station is a major railway station west of the center of London in the urban district London Borough of Ealing . It is located in tariff zone 3 and also serves as the terminus of two lines on the London Underground . In 2016, 18.60 million metro passengers used the station, plus a further 6.373 million rail passengers.

The nine-track system is on the Great Western Main Line , the main line from Paddington to the west of England. On the north side the tracks of the Central Line and the District Line end bluntly. Great Western Railway local trains operate from Paddington via Ealing Broadway to Greenford , Reading and Oxford . The Heathrow Connect to London Heathrow Airport also stops here .

history

Subway part of the station
Express train from Great Western

The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened the first section of its main line between Paddington and Taplow on April 6, 1838 , Ealing station followed on December 1 of the same year. In 1875 it was renamed Ealing Broadway. On July 1, 1879, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, predecessor of the District Line) also reached Ealing Broadway from Turnham Green . The MDR built its own station building and separate platforms north of the GWR systems. From March 1, 1883 to September 30, 1885, the MDR trains continued over Slough to Windsor .

Two years after the main route of the District Line to Uxbridge was electrified in 1903, the short section to Ealing Broadway was also electrified on July 1, 1905. Between 1907 and 1916, the MDR replaced its original station building with a new building. Before the First World War , the GWR planned to build a route between Ealing and Shepherd's Bush to connect to the West London Line . The Central London Railway (CLR, today Central Line) was supposed to take over the passenger traffic . The CLR began operations on the new route between Wood Lane and Ealing on August 3, 1920.

The originally independent companies MDR and CLR belonged from 1920 to the holding company Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL). Nevertheless, the CLR trains stopped at the GWR station at specially built new platforms. The GWR train station was demolished in 1961 and replaced by a new concrete building which, in addition to shops and the counter hall, also includes an office tower. The old MDR train station is still standing today and there are several shops in it. In December 2019, the Crossrail trains will start operating on the Elisabeth Line.

Web links

Commons : Ealing Broadway Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ COUNTS - 2016 - annual entries & exits. (Excel) (No longer available online.) Transport for London , 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 1, 2018 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tfl.gov.uk  
  2. ↑ Estimates of station usage, 2016/17 data. (Excel) Office of Rail and Road , 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 15, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 15, 2013 .
Previous station National Rail Next train station
Acton Main Line Great Western Railway
Great Western Main Line 		West Ealing
Paddington Heathrow Connect
Previous station Crossrail Next train station
West Ealing Elizabeth Line
(from 2019) 		Acton Main Line
Previous station London Underground Next station
final destination   Central Line   West Acton
  District Line   Ealing Common

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 53.5 ″  N , 0 ° 18 ′ 5.2 ″  W.