Westbourne Park tube station

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Westbourne Park
Westbourne Park tube station
Location
Place Westbourne Green
Local authority City of Westminster
Operations
Managed by London Underground
Platforms in use 2
Transport for London
Zone 2
2005 annual usage 2.704 million †
2007 annual usage 2.873 million †
History
Key dates Opened 1871
Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]


Westbourne Park is a London Underground station on the Hammersmith and City Line, between Ladbroke Grove and Royal Oak stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2. Although the Metropolitan Railway had been extended to Notting Hill and Hammersmith on 1 June 1864 the first station by this name did not open until February 1, 1866. This closed on 31 October 1871 to be replaced the following day by a new station constructed to the east of the original. In February 1913 a bomb - possibly planted by the Suffragettes - was discovered at Westbourne Park station.

Westbourne Park was recorded as Westburn in 1222 and is derived from the Old English westan and burnam 'place' - means 'the place west of the stream'. Paddington was the sister village on the east bank. The road here was an ancient lane winding through the old Westbourne Farm. The Green was recorded in 1680 hence the Park, now a road.[1]

Adjoining the station is the First Centerwest bus garage.

[edit] Westbourne Park Railway station

There were once British Rail platforms on the Great Western Main Line, but these closed in the early 1990s. Another station on the Hammersmith and City Line, Royal Oak, also had a GWR station, but this shut with the arrival of the underground in 1871. Today the first stop out of Paddington is at Acton

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Coordinates: 51°31′16″N, 0°12′04″W

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