- Hammersmith tube station (Hammersmith & City Line)
Hammersmith is a
London Underground station inHammersmith . It is the western terminus of theHammersmith & City Line . The station is inTravelcard Zone 2 and is a short walk from the identically named but separate Hammersmith station on the Piccadilly and District lines. The two stations are separated by Hammersmith Broadway. As the crow flies, they are about 60m (200ft) apart door to door, although the positions of the pedestrian crossings on the Broadway makes it more like 135m (450ft) on foot. See [http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|hammersmith%20broadway#t=l&] for a close-up map. The north of the two roundels is the Hammersmith & City line station, the south one is the Piccadilly and District lines station.
The present station is situated on Beadon Road and opened on
1 December 1868 , replacing the original station slightly north of here which opened on13 June 1864 when the line extension was built from Paddington.The Metropolitan Railway operated a service from Hammersmith to Richmond from 1877 over the lines of the
London and South Western Railway from a junction just north of this station via an adjacent station at Hammersmith (Grove Road) and a viaduct connection to Ravenscourt Park. Part of this viaduct is still visible from Piccadilly andDistrict Line trains west of the Piccadilly and District Line station. The extension closed on31 December 1906 shortly after the introduction of electric trains on the line.In popular culture
The station appears in the film "Adulthood" (2008).
ee also
*
List of London Underground stations
*Hammersmith Grove Road, a third station that used to exist adjacent to the Hammersmith and City Line station on the L&SWR line throughShepherd's Bush to theWest London Line .External links
* [http://photos.ltmcollection.org London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
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