Gunnersbury station

Gunnersbury is a railway station in south west London, which is served by both the London Underground and London Overground, which operates the North London Line. Transport for London is the operator for the station is in Travelcard Zone 3 and has two tracks on a central platform. In the year 2011 there were 4.39 million subway passengers the station, added 1.182 million passengers by rail.

The station is located in the district of Gunnersbury, part of the London Borough of Hounslow. North of the station shares the route. The North London Line branches off to the left towards the South Acton station. The District Line of the Underground branches off to the right from the station Turnham Green.

History

The station under the name of Brentford Road was opened on 1 January in 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR ). He lay on the newly built branch line, the (now Kensington Olympia) began at the Addison Road. The route went further by Shepherd 's Bush and Hammersmith via a now disused connection curve. There was also a short link to Brent Ford, identified by the North London Railway ( NLR) is frequented. From 1 June 1870 to the October 31, 1870 wrong here also trains of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) from Paddington on the tracks of the Hammersmith & City Railway and Hammersmith to Richmond. Received its current name of the station in 1871.

( Predecessor of today's District Line MDR) a short extension between her then- endpoint Hammersmith and the L & SWR tracks east of Ravenscourt Park into operation on 1 June 1877, the Metropolitan District Railway took. This allowed the company to allow trains on the L & SWR route to Richmond. The electrification of the Gunnersbury - Richmond took place on August 1, 1905.

As of June 3, 1916, only MDR- trains ran on the track after the NLR, GWR, the Metropolitan Railway and the last L & SWR had withdrawn. 1932, the connecting track to Chiswick was shut down, the tracks were built later on. On December 8, 1954, the station building was damaged by a tornado, which covered the roof. In this case, six people were injured. In the 1960s, underwent reconstruction of the railway tracks.