Chiswick Park tube station

Chiswick Park tube station
Chiswick Park London Underground
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Chiswick Park is located in Greater London
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Chiswick Park

Location of Chiswick Park in Greater London
Location Chiswick
Local authority London Borough of Ealing
Managed by London Underground
Number of platforms 2
Fare zone 3

London Underground annual entry and exit
2008 decrease 2.050 million[1]
2009 decrease 1.946 million[1]
2010 decrease 1.930 million[1]

Original company Metropolitan District Railway
1 July 1879 Opened as Acton Green
March 1887 Renamed Chiswick Park & Acton Green
1 March 1910 Renamed Chiswick Park

List of stations Underground · National Rail

Coordinates: 51°29′41″N 0°16′04″W / 51.4947°N 0.2678°W / 51.4947; -0.2678

Chiswick Park is a London Underground station in Chiswick in west London. The station is served by the District Line and is between Turnham Green and Acton Town stations. It is located at the junction of Bollo Lane and Acton Lane about 150 m north of Chiswick High Road (A315) and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

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History

The station was opened on 1 July 1879 by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) on its extension from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway. The station was originally named Acton Green after the adjacent Acton Green Common to the east. It was renamed to Chiswick Park and Acton Green in 1889.

Following the electrification of the MDR's tracks north of Acton Town in 1903, services between Acton Town and central London were electrified on 1 July 1905. In 1910 the station was given its present name.

Between 1931 and 1932 the station was rebuilt, in preparation for the western extension of the Piccadilly Line from Hammersmith. Although the Piccadilly Line has never served the station, its trains run non-stop through the station and the reconstruction was required to enable the addition of two fast tracks for those services to be located between the District Line's stopping service tracks.

The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Holden's design was inspired by Alfred Grenander's underground station Krumme Lanke in Berlin. Similar to the station at Arnos Grove that Holden designed for the eastern Piccadilly Line extension, Chiswick Park station features a tall semi-circular ticket hall adjacent to the embankment carrying the tracks. Externally the brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof which abuts the cantilevered concrete canopy of the westbound platform. A similar canopy shelters the eastbound platform accessed through the embankment. To make the station's location visible from Chiswick High Road the station was also provided with a square brick tower surmounted by the UNDERGROUND roundel and the station's name.

Trivia

Immediately to the south of the station entrance, on the other side of the road junction, the tracks of the District Line's Richmond branch cross under the road and about 100 m to the east of the station, the eastbound track crosses under the four District and Piccadilly Line tracks on its way towards Turnham Green station.

Chiswick Park station is closer to Turnham Green (on the south side of Chiswick High Road) than the station of that name.

Chiswick Park Station was used on the front of Caspa's Ave It Volume 1 EP which is out on Sub Soldiers record label (subsol001) [1]

Transport Link

London Bus route 440 pass the station, 5 mins walk to Charles Ii Street this road Acton Lane for route 94 and Chiwick High Road for route 27, 237, 267, 272, 391 and night route N9.

References

External links

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