Park Royal tube station

Park Royal is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Ealing. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 3 on the Western Avenue (A40 ). In the year 2011 there were 1.58 million passengers these from the Piccadilly Line station.

The Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, predecessor of today's District Line ) opened on 23 June 1903 by Ealing Common from a new route to South Harrow. A few hundred meters north there was the Station Park Royal & Twyford Abbey, climbed the exhibition grounds of the Royal Agricultural Society. This was closed on July 5, 1931 and replaced by the present, the next day opened station. Nearly one year held in Park Royal trains on the District line until the operation was transferred to the Piccadilly Line on July 4, 1932. From 1936 to 1947, the station name Park Royal was (Hanger Hill ); the text in parentheses referring to a neighboring residential area.

Initially, the station building was a simple timber, which was replaced in 1936 by a new building of the architectural firm Welch & Lander. It is based on the coined by Charles Holden style and combines functionalism with Art Deco. Landmarks are the circular entrance hall with high windows and adjacent thereto a high square tower made ​​of red bricks. Since 1987, the station is a listed building (Grade II).