Ealing Broadway station
Ealing Broadway is a major railway station west of the center of London in the London Borough of Ealing. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 3 and also serves as the terminus of two lines of the London Underground. In the year 2011 there were 16.09 million subway and other 3.221 million rail passengers the station.
The neungleisige complex is situated on the Great Western Main Line, the main line of Paddington in the west of England. On the north side of the tracks of the Central Line and the District Line frusto. Suburban trains of the company First Great Western operate from Paddington via Ealing Broadway to Greenford, Reading and Oxford. Also, here holds the Heathrow Connect to Heathrow Airport.
History
The Great Western Railway ( GWR ) opened on April 6, 1838 between Paddington and Taplow the first part of their regular route, Ealing station followed on 1 December of the same year. Later renamed Ealing Broadway follow. On July 1, 1879, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, the predecessor company of the District Line ) Ealing Broadway Turnham Green reached out. The MDR built its own railway station and separate platforms north of the GWR systems. From 1 March 1883 to the September 30, 1885 reversed the MDR- trains continue on to Slough to Windsor.
Two years after the electrification of the main line of the District Line to Uxbridge in 1903 and the short section was electrified to Ealing Broadway on July 1, 1905. Between 1907 and 1916, the MDR replaced their original station building with a new building. Before the First World War, the GWR was planning to build a route between Ealing and Shepherd's Bush to connect to the West London Line. The passenger should the Central London Railway (CLR, today's Central Line) take over. The CLR started operations on the new route between Wood Lane and Ealing on August 3, 1920.
The originally independent companies MDR and CLR were from 1920, the holding company Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ). However, the CLR trains stopped in the GWR station at a purpose-built new platforms. The GWR station was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a new building made of concrete, next to the shops and the main hall also includes an office block. The old MDR- station still stands today, it is now but a store.