Ravenscourt Park Underground Station
Ravenscourt Park is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, between Dalling Road and Ravenscourt Road. District Line trains run here . In 2014, 2.91 million passengers used the station.
history
The London and South Western Railway (L & SWR) started operating a railway line on January 1, 1869, which branched off from the West London Line at Addison Road (now Kensington (Olympia) ) and led to Richmond . The trains ran through here without stopping until the L & SWR opened Shaftesbury Road station on April 1, 1873 . The Metropolitan District Railway (MDR; predecessor of the District Line) built a connecting line from what was then the terminus at Hammersmith to the L & SWR tracks just east of Ravenscourt Park. On June 1, 1877, the MDR metros operated for the first time, and the Metropolitan Railway (MR; today's Metropolitan Line ) followed this example exactly four months later .
On March 1, 1888, the station was given its current name. From February 1, 1894, suburban trains of the Great Western Railway (GWR) also ran on the route, which was now used by four different companies. After the electrification of the MDR route north of Acton Town in 1903, the MDR funded the electrification of the section via Ravenscourt Park, which was completed on July 1, 1905. Trains from L & SWR, MR and GWR continued to run on steam locomotives.
The MR withdrew on December 31, 1906, the GWR exactly four years later. The L & SWR, which in 1911 had built parallel tracks for non-electric traffic, finally had to bow to subway competition on June 3, 1916. When the Piccadilly Line was extended westward from Hammersmith on July 4, 1932, the tracks came to lie between those of the District Line. Since then, the Piccadilly Line trains have passed Ravenscourt Park station without stopping.
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). 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.
- ↑ a b c District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Piccadilly Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 18, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 38.8 ″ N , 0 ° 14 ′ 9.1 ″ W.