Barons Court tube station

Barons Court is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 on the Talgarth Road. Here courses of the District Line and the Piccadilly Line. In 2011, 6.54 million passengers used this station.

Plant

Just east of the station ends of the tunnel section of the Piccadilly Line. Their tracks are to station Acton Town between those of the District Line. Two central platforms facilitate the direct transfer between trains of the two lines that are traveling in the same direction.

The station building is a well preserved example of Edwardian architecture, which is modeled with its numerous baroque ornaments. Since 1985, the building is a listed building (Grade II).

History

The station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway, the predecessor company of the District Line, on 9 October 1905. The Piccadilly Line started its operations on 15 December 1906. The route was opened in 1874, however, already. The station was added later and was part of a larger construction project. On the previously built-up area around a new residential area was built.

The new district was named Barons Court ( grammatically correct would have been Baron's Court ). The naming goes to Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg -Ansbach back ( a German Margrave corresponds to the English Baron). This had possessed at the beginning of the 19th century in the near Hammersmith estate called Brandenburg House. About his wife, Lady Elizabeth Craven, he was also fed into the possession of Craven Cottage, where now stands the soccer stadium of FC Fulham. A road at the station is Margravine Gardens ( " Markgräfinnengarten ").

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