Stamford Brook tube station

Stamford Brook is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hounslow. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 on the Goldhawk Road. Here courses of the District Line. In 2011, 2.52 million passengers used the station.

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 ran through here without stopping. In the following years this wrong also features three other companies: the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, the predecessor company of the District Line ) since 1 April 1873, the Great Western Railway from 1894 to 1910 and the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan Line) 1877 until 1906.

On February 1, 1912, the station was opened in Stamford Brook. At this time used only the MDR and the L & SWR route. The latter withdrew on June 3, 1916 also returns, as its steam trains of the competition were not grown through the electrified since 1905 subway. 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 pass the trains on the Piccadilly Line Stamford Brook without stopping. On January 5, 1964 Stamford Brook was the first stop on the London Underground, which received an access with automatic turnstile.