Hammersmith tube station (Hammersmith & City and Circle lines)

Hammersmith

Station entrance
Hammersmith Location of Hammersmith in Greater London
Location	Hammersmith
Local authority	London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	3
Accessible
Fare zone	2
Interchange	Hammersmith (Piccadilly and District lines)
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008	9.170 million
2009	8.600 million
2010	8.680 million
1864	Opened
1868	Resited
1 February 1960	Goods yard closed
Lists of stations	DLR · Underground · National Rail · Tramlink

Hammersmith is a London Underground station in Hammersmith. It is the western terminus of the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2 and is a short walk from the station of the same name on the Piccadilly and District lines. The two stations are separated by Hammersmith Broadway. As the crow flies, they are about 60 m (200 ft) apart door to door, although the positions of the pedestrian crossings on the Broadway makes it more like 135 m (450 ft) on foot. See here for a close-up map. The north of the two roundels is the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines station, the south one is the Piccadilly and District lines station. The Circle line has served Hammersmith since 13 December 2009. By June 2011 all of the platforms had been lengthened to accommodate the new and longer trains of the S Stock that will enter service in late 2011 / early 2012. These new trains will be seven cars in length instead of the six cars of C Stock that currently operate.

History

The present station is situated on Beadon Road and opened on 1 December 1868, replacing the original station slightly north of here which opened on 13 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 and District Line trains west of the Piccadilly and District Line station. The extension closed on 31 December 1906 shortly after the introduction of electric trains on the line.

In popular culture

The station appears in the film Adulthood (2008), as well as an earlier version of the music video for Lily Allen's "LDN". Lily enters the station and boards a train with her red Raleigh Chopper bicycle, alighting at Ladbroke Grove station. The station also appears in the music video for "Bravo Lover" by Taiwanese Mandopop singer Jolin Tsai.

Depot

The Hammersmith depot is located just outside the station. It is used for general maintenance and storage of the C Stock. Recently, an S Stock train has been sighted at the eastern end of the depot's train sheds.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of London Underground stations
• Hammersmith tube station (Piccadilly & District Lines)
• Hammersmith Grove Road, a third station that used to exist adjacent to the Hammersmith and City Line station on the L&SWR line through Shepherd's Bush to the West London Line.

Transport links

London bus routes 9, 10, 27, 33, 72, 190, 209, 211, 220, 266, 267, 283, 295, 391, 419, 485, H91 and night route N9, N11 and N97.

External links

• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Hammersmith station, 1933
  • Hammersmith station, 2001
  • View of Ticket hall, 2001

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Terminus		Circle line		Goldhawk Road towards Edgware Road (via Aldgate)
		Hammersmith & City line		Goldhawk Road towards Barking