Gunnersbury Railway Station
Gunnersbury is a train station in south-west London that is served by both the London Underground and London Overground , the operator of the North London Line . Transport for London is the operator of the train station, which is located in Travelcard Zone 3 and has two tracks on a central platform. In 2014, 5.41 million subway passengers used the station, plus 2.575 million rail passengers.
The station is located in Gunnersbury , which is part of the London Borough of Hounslow . The route splits north of the station. The North London Line branches off to the left for South Acton Station . The Underground District Line branches off to the right to Turnham Green Station .
history
The station was opened under the name Brentford Road on January 1, 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR). It was on the newly built branch line that began at Addison Road (now Kensington Olympia ). The route continued through Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith via a connecting curve that has now been closed. There was also a short link to Brentford on the North London Railway (NLR). From June 1, 1870 to October 31, 1870 trains of the Great Western Railway (GWR) also ran here from Paddington on the tracks of the Hammersmith & City Railway and Hammersmith to Richmond. The station was given its current name in 1871.
On June 1, 1877, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR; predecessor of today's District Line ) started operating a short extension between its then terminus Hammersmith and the L & SWR tracks east of Ravenscourt Park . This allowed the company to run trains on the L & SWR route to Richmond. The Gunnersbury - Richmond line was electrified on August 1, 1905.
From June 3, 1916, only MDR trains ran on the line after the NLR, GWR, Metropolitan Railway and, most recently, L & SWR had withdrawn. In 1932 the connecting track to Chiswick was closed, the tracks were later dismantled. On December 8, 1954, the station building was damaged by a tornado that covered the roof. Six people suffered injuries. In the 1960s, the track system was rebuilt.
Web links
- Departure times and travel information from National Rail
- Photo of the reception building (1928)
- Photo of the reception building (1955)
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 18, 2013 .
- ↑ History of UK Weather - 1954 ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station |
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| Kew Gardens |
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Turnham Green |
| Kew Gardens |
 North London Line |
South Acton |
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 28.8 " N , 0 ° 16 ′ 31.9" W.