Hammersmith tube station (Hammersmith & City and Circle lines)
Hammersmith is the name of two adjacent aboveground stations of the London Underground in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. They are located in the Travelcard Zone 2 at the intersection of six major roads in the Hammersmith district. Here courses of the Circle Line, District Line, Hammersmith & City Line and the Piccadilly Line. A close by as is the Concert Hall Hammersmith Apollo.
The station on the District Line and the Piccadilly Line is located in the middle of a busy circular incision traffic with almost 200 meters in diameter. The tracks of the Piccadilly line lie between those of the District Line. Two central platforms facilitate transfers between trains of the two lines that are traveling in the same direction. Immediately west of the station followed by a 200 meter-long tunnel under the Beadon Road. The station of the Hammersmith & City Line and the Circle Line is located at the Beadon Road, on the north side of the roundabout. It has the shape of a head station. Both stations are connected by a pedestrian underpass.
In 2011, 28.94 million passengers used the station on the District Line and the Piccadilly Line, 8.89 million that the Hammersmith & City Line and the Circle Line.
History
On 13 June 1864, the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line) extended the first subway line in the world from Paddington further to the southwest Hammersmith. The first provisional head station was a little further north and was replaced on December 1, 1868 by the still existing buildings.
The Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line ) also sought to expand its route network in the rapidly growing western suburbs. On September 9, 1874, it reached Earl 's Court Hammersmith. From 1 June 1877, the District trains drove over tracks of the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR ) to Richmond.
The Metropolitan Railway had signed a cooperation agreement with the L & SWR and built a connecting track to the tracks in the direction of Richmond. This opened on October 1, 1877 link chain from just outside the terminal station and led by the newly built Station Hammersmith ( Grove Road) and over a short viaduct station Ravenscourt Park. On 31 December 1906, the trains were discontinued on the link. Parts of the viaduct are still preserved.
On 15 December 1906, the opening of the Piccadilly Line was. Their first section ran from Hammersmith through downtown until after Finsbury Park.. The western extension of the line was followed, on July 4, 1932 To make room for this extension, the station had to be rebuilt; so, for example, got a second one central platform.
The station on the District Line and the Piccadilly Line was rebuilt in the 1990s. The building complex comprises since a shopping center and a bus station. During the reconstruction parts of the original ticket hall appeared. The decorative tiles, on which, among other things, the Hammersmith Bridge are shown, remained intact and can be seen today in the northern ticket hall. Since December 13, 2009 Hammersmith is also a terminus for trains on the Circle Line.