Westbourne Park Underground Station
Westbourne Park is an above-ground London Underground station in the City of Westminster . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 on the Westway , a multi-lane expressway. Trains on the Hammersmith & City Line and the Circle Line operate here . In 2014, 3.73 million passengers used the station. The Underground's tracks are parallel to the Great Western Main Line , the main rail line between Paddington and the west of England.
The station was opened on February 1, 1866 by the Metropolitan Railway (today's Metropolitan Line ). However, the line had already been opened in 1864 by the Hammersmith & City Railway . This company initially belonged to the Great Western Railway and came into the possession of the Metropolitan Railway in 1867 . The station was closed on October 31, 1871 and reopened a little further east on the following day. In 1990 the Hammersmith branch of the Metropolitan Line became operational under the name Hammersmith & City Line. Circle Line trains have also stopped here since December 13, 2009.
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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.
- ^ Hammersmith & City Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ^ Circle Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 14, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '15.4 " N , 0 ° 12' 4.5" W.