Westbourne Park tube station

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Westbourne Park is a London Underground station. It is located in the Notting Hill area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The station is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Ladbroke Grove and Royal Oak stations. It is in London fare zone 2.[1]

History

Although the Metropolitan Railway (MR) had been extended to Notting Hill and Hammersmith on 1 June 1864, the first station by this name did not open until 1 February 1866.[2][3] In 1867, with the companies on better terms, the MR bought a share of the Hammersmith & City Railway (H&CR) from the Great Western Railway (GWR), after which it eliminated the broad gauge track and operated almost all the trains (the H&CR's identity being effectively lost).[2]

The original station closed on 31 October 1871, and was replaced the following day by a new station,[2] constructed to the west of the original.[4] To remove this traffic from its own busy main line, the GWR built a new pair of tracks from Paddington to Westbourne Park, and on 12 May 1878 it opened a dive-under to remove conflicts where the service crossed the main line.[2][note 1] A bomb planted by the Suffragettes was discovered at the station on 16 May 1913.[5]

The Circle line was extended to Hammersmith in 2009.[6] The line now operates between Hammersmith and Edgware Road via a single complete circuit of the previous route.[6][note 2] This was done with the aim of improving reliability by providing a place for trains to terminate after each trip rather than letting delays accumulate.[6] However, it means that no trains through Notting Hill Gate go east of Edgware Road.[6]

National Rail platforms

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Victorian turntable excavated near the station
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Victorian engine shed excavated near the station

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The GWR opened platforms on the Great Western Main Line on 30 October 1871, but these closed in March 1992.[7] The Up line through the station had a Template:Cvt speed limit, which was deemed unacceptable for the planned Heathrow Express services; instead of modifying the station's platforms; British Rail decided that it would be more cost-effective to permanently close and remove them, and closure notices were published on 13 December 1990.[8]

Royal Oak, another station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, was also once served by the GWR, but its services were withdrawn in 1934.[9] Today, the first stop away from Paddington is at Acton Main Line. Industrial archaeologists have found the remains of buildings including a broad gauge train shed for Brunel's original lines, a turntable, and engine sheds in excavations east of the station as part of the land clearance work for the Crossrail project.[10]

Connections

London Bus day and night routes serve the station.[11][12]

In popular culture

Early railway buff Fanny Johnson, fourteen years old, recorded passing engines in her notebook ‘Names of Engines on the Great Western that I have Seen’ in 1861.[13]

The station was featured in the video of the Boris Gardiner song "I Want to Wake Up with You".[14][15]

Notes and references

Notes

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  1. ↑ These tracks were dedicated to Underground use, but they only came into LU control on 1 January 1948 and ownership on 1 January 1950.[2]
  2. ↑ Hammersmith, Edgware Road, Liverpool Street, Tower Hill, South Kensington, High Street Kensington, Paddington, and Edgware Road (and vice versa).[6]

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References

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  1. ↑ Template:Cite map/Standard Tube Map
  2. ↑ a b c d e Clive's Underground Line Guides – Hammersmith & City line
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  6. ↑ a b c d e Clive's Underground Line Guides – Circle line
  7. ↑ "Westbourne Park Railway Station (site), 2009 Thompson, Nigel Geograph.org.uk; retrieved 25 April 2017
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  9. ↑ Chronology of London Railways by H.V.Borley- page78/79
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  12. ↑ Westbourne Park Underground Station – Bus
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  15. ↑ Westbourne Park tube station is seen in the video from 0:58 to 1:43.

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Bibliography

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