Turnham Green tube station
Turnham Green is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hounslow. It is located at Turnham Green Terrace, on the border of the Travelcard Zones 2 and 3 Here courses of the District Line ( all day) and the Piccadilly Line (early morning and late evening ). In 2011, 5.83 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. On the same day the Turnham Green station was opened. 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.
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 Turnham Green, 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. Trains on the Piccadilly Line passed the Station Turnham Green initially without stopping. Since 23 June 1963 she hold both before and after closing.
The station is, as Turnpike Lane, mentioned in the song Junkie Doll Mark Knopfler, which appeared on his album Sailing to Philadelphia.