Kew Gardens station (London)

Kew Gardens is a railway station in South West London, which is served by both trains on the District line of the London Underground and London Overground trains on the North London Line. In the year 2011 there were 3.13 million subway passengers the station, added 0.612 million passengers by rail.

Plant

The train station on the border Travelcard Zone 3 and 4 is two-pronged and has two outer platforms. The station building is a well preserved example mittelviktorianischer railway architecture and one of the few from the 19th century on the North London Line, which have been preserved. Since 2002, the built of tan brick building listed building (Grade II), as well as the pedestrian bridge at the south end of the facility.

The station is located near the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Public Record Office, a part of the British National Archives.

History

Was opened the station on 1 January in 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR ). He lay on the newly built branch line that began at the Addison Road (now Kensington ( Olympia) ). 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.

( 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 3rd, 1916 MDR- trains only operated on the route after the NLR, GWR, the Metropolitan Railway and the last L & SWR had withdrawn. .