White City tube station

White City is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 at the Wood Lane. In the year 2011 there were 7.74 million passengers served by the Central Line station.

Plant

Diagonally opposite on the other side of the street there is the BBC Television Centre, the broadcast center to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Also nearby is Loftus Road stadium, home of football club Queens Park Rangers. Just south of the station begins downtown tunnel on the Central Line. In contrast to the entire rest of the network, there is on the left-hand traffic, the trains here on the right track. The reason is the somewhat further south, now disused station Wood Lane, which was opened in 1908 as the then western terminus and built in the form of a turning loop. Halfway to the next Station East Acton intersect the two main lines and switch back to the left. The station itself has three tracks, the middle track is bounded on both sides by a platform and thus can be traveled by trains from both directions. Wend end trains can reach the depot White City from here.

History

The opening of the station took place on 23 November 1947, the route has existed since 1920. White City to replace the somewhat further south Station Wood Lane. Construction began in 1938, but rested for several years because of the Second World War. The architectural design of the station received an award at the 1951 Festival of Britain, what a commemorative plaque recalls the main entrance.

In the immediate vicinity is the Station Wood Lane on the Hammersmith & City Line in operation since 2008. Thus, the urban development project Westfield London is on the one hand more accessible, on the other hand is since then a transfer possibility.