Royal Oak tube station

Royal Oak is an aboveground station London Underground in the urban district of City of Westminster. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 on the Westway, a multi-lane expressway. Here courses of the Hammersmith & City Line and the Circle Line. In 2011, 2.05 million passengers used the station. The tracks of the subway line are parallel to the Great Western Main Line, the main railway line between Paddington and the West of England.

The opening of the station took place on October 30, 1871 by the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan Line). The route was opened in 1864 but by the Hammersmith & City Railway, which was initially part of the Great Western Railway and three years later came into the possession of the Metropolitan Railway. In 1990, the Hammersmith branch of the Metropolitan Line under the name Hammersmith & City Line was made ​​independent operational. Since December 13, 2009 here also keep trains on the Circle Line.

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