White City tube station
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White City | |
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Location | White City |
Local authority | Hammersmith and Fulham |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 4 (facing 3 tracks) |
Fare zone | 2 |
OSI | Wood Lane [1] |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2018 | 8.12 million[2] |
2019 | 9.56 million[3] |
2020 | 4.01 million[4] |
2021 | 4.62 million[5] |
2022 | 7.39 million[6] |
Railway companies | |
Original company | London Passenger Transport Board |
Key dates | |
3 August 1920 | Line opened |
23 November 1947 | Station opened |
Other information | |
External links | |
Coordinates | 51°30′43.5″N 0°13′28.5″W / 51.512083°N 0.224583°W |
London transport portal |
White City is a
History
The station was opened on 23 November 1947, replacing the earlier
The station today
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An interesting feature of the station is that the line adopts right-hand running through the station rather than the conventional left-hand running. This is a historical consequence of the reversal of the tracks in the tunnels of the anti-clockwise loop track built for the now-disused Wood Lane station, situated a short distance to the south of White City which was opened in 1908 as the then western terminus of the Central London Railway. The two tracks return to their normal left-hand orientation by a surface fly-over roughly halfway between White City and East Acton stations.
The station's running layout has three tracks, with the centre track having platforms on each side meaning that it can handle trains running in either direction. A siding between the running lines to the north of the station allows trains from Central London to be reversed and run back eastwards. Trains going out of service can return to the below-ground
The nearby Wood Lane station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines provides an interchange between the lines.
This station is also directly opposite the
The station received a certificate of merit in the 2009 National Railway Heritage Awards, London Regional category, for the modernisation (completed in 2008) that took care to retain heritage and architectural features.[7]
Similarly named station
An earlier
Connections
References
- ^ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Christmas comes early to Maida Vale Tube station". Transport for London. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
- ^ "Buses from White City" (PDF). TfL. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
External links
Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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East Acton towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip
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Central line | Shepherd's Bush | ||
Former route | ||||
North Acton towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip
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Central line | Wood Lane |