Kew Gardens train station
Kew Gardens is a railway station in southwest London , who both trains of the District Line of the London Underground as well as London Overground trains on on the North London Line is operated. In 2014, 3.56 million subway passengers used the station, plus 1.176 million rail passengers.
investment
The station on the border of tariff zones 3 and 4 is double-track and has two outer platforms. The station building is a well-preserved example of Mid-Victorian railroad architecture and one of the few 19th-century buildings on the North London Line that have survived. The building made of yellow-brown bricks has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 2002 , as is the pedestrian bridge at the southern end of the facility.
The train station is close to the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Public Record Office , part of the UK National Archives.
history
The station was opened 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.
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 electrification of the Gunnersbury - Richmond line took place on August 1, 1905. From June 3, 1916, only MDR trains ran on the line after the NLR, GWR, Metropolitan Railway and, most recently, the L & SWR had withdrawn.
Web links
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).
- ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
- ^ Kew Gardens station. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, archived from the original on January 13, 2015 ; accessed on January 18, 2013 . 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.
- ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 18, 2013 .
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station |
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| Richmond |
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Gunnersbury |
| Richmond |
 North London Line |
Gunnersbury |
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 37.7 ″ N , 0 ° 17 ′ 5.9 ″ W.