Alperton tube station

Alperton is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Brent. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4, at the intersection of Bridgewater Road and Ealing Road. In 2010, 2.94 million passengers took advantage of this of the Piccadilly Line station. In the immediate vicinity of the Grand Union Canal runs.

The Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, predecessor of today's District Line ) opened on June 28, 1903 a new route from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey to South Harrow. The section between Ealing Common and Park Royal & Twyford Abbey was opened five days before. The new route was - together with the existing tracks from Acton Town - the first electrified underground rail line, the Underground. On October 7, 1910, the MDR changed the name of the station Perivale Alperton in Alperton. The operation on the route between Ealing Common and Rayners Lane was broadcast on 4 July 1932, the Piccadilly Line.

The original station building was made of wood and was kept simple. It was in 1930/31, in preparation for the handover of the distance to the Piccadilly Line, demolished and replaced by a new building. According to the plans of Charles Holden a building that functionalism and Art Deco was united. It consists of a massive, towering over a flat purpose built block of red brick with high clerestory, which allow plenty of natural daylight to penetrate into the main hall. Alperton is the only station in the leads down an escalator to the platform up instead of next to Greenford.

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  • Photo of the entrance hall ( March 1933 )
  • Photo of the platform ( August 1933 )
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