Ruislip Gardens tube station

Ruislip Gardens is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 5 on the West End Road. In the year 2011 there were one million passengers served by the Central Line station. Nearby is the airbase RAF Northolt, about a mile west of one of the service workshops of the Central Line.

The station has an island platform. The terminus of some trains running to or from the maintenance workshop, here is instead of West Ruislip. At the maintenance workshop branches off a single track leading through a hairpin turn to the route of the Metropolitan Line at Ickenham; this is, however, traveled only a few maneuvering. Trains of the railway company Chiltern Railways South Ruislip pass without stopping to run parallel to the Underground tracks.

Built in 1906, the Great Western Railway and the Great Central Railway in common the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway (GW & GCJR ), a railway line towards High Wycombe. On July 9, 1934, a breakpoint was opened. As part of the 1935 New Works program adopted by the London Passenger Transport Board was an additional double track along the GW & GCJR moved to the end of the Second World War to allow the underground operation between North Acton and West Ruislip. The Central Line sailed the route from November 21, 1948. Trains British Rail stopped here last time in 1958, then the excess platform were demolished.

The poet John Betjeman, immortalized the station in his poem Middlesex: