Richmond Railway Station

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Station building

Richmond is a station in South West London served by the District Line of the London Underground as well as London Overground and South West Trains trains. The station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames forms the southwest terminus of the District Line and the western terminus of the North London Line . It is operated by South West Trains. In 2014, 8.45 million metro passengers used the station, plus 9.768 million rail passengers.

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View of the platform

The station in tariff zone 4 was used by 7.95 million underground passengers in 2013, plus 9.093 million rail passengers. It has four tracks with head platforms for the lines ending here and two continuous tracks for the trains of South West Trains. Between the two parts of the station there is still a head track, which is part of the southern part of the South West Trains. Although the North London Line and the District Line to Gunnersbury share the tracks, both lines use different terminus platforms.

history

The station was opened on July 27, 1846 by the Richmond and West End Railway (R & WER), as the terminus of the line from Clapham Junction . The Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway (WS & SWR) extended the route to the west. Both companies merged to form the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR).

The L & SWR opened a branch line on January 1, 1869, which 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 ) began operating a short stretch between its then terminus Hammersmith and the L & SWR tracks east of Ravenscourt Park . This allowed the company to run trains over 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3, 1916, only MDR trains ran on the line after the NLR, GWR, Metropolitan Railway and, most recently, the L & SWR had withdrawn.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

Commons : Richmond Railway Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  4. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  5. ↑ a b c District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 18, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 47.5 ″  N , 0 ° 18 ′ 2.2 ″  W.