Ravenscourt Park tube station

Ravenscourt Park is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2, between the Dalling Road and Ravenscourt Road. Here courses of the District Line. In 2011, 2.65 million passengers used the station.

History

The London and South Western Railway (L & SWR ) adopted on January 1, 1869 a railway line in operation, which branched off at the Addison Road (now Kensington ( Olympia) ) from the West London Line and led to Richmond. The trains were here first without stopping by until the L & SWR on April 1, 1873 opened the Shaftesbury Road Train Station. The Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, the predecessor company of the District Line ) built a link from the former terminus Hammersmith to the L & SWR tracks just east of Ravenscourt Park. On June 1, 1877 for the first time inverted U- orbits of the MDR, exactly four months later, the Metropolitan Railway (MR; Today's Metropolitan Line) this example.

On March 1, 1888, the station was given its present name. As of February 1, 1894 also suburban trains of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) operated on the route, which has now been used by four different companies. After the electrification of the MDR- distance north of Acton Town in 1903 the MDR funded the electrification of the section on Ravenscourt Park, which was completed on 1 July 1905. Trains from L & SWR, MR and GWR perverted continue with steam locomotives.

The MR withdrew on 31 December 1906 the GWR exactly four years later. The L & SWR had built in 1911 still parallel tracks for the non-electric transport, finally had to bow also the metro competition on June 3, 1916. When the Piccadilly Line was extended on July 4, 1932 by Hammersmith in the direction of the west, whose tracks between those came on the District line to lie. Since then, the trains pass through the station on the Piccadilly Line Ravenscourt Park without stopping.