Westbourne Park station
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Westbourne Park station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 Nov 2013
Westbourne Park station opened on 1st February 1866 and was served by two existing railway lines – the Hammersmith & City Railway which opened on 13th June 1864 (owned by the Great Western Railway and running between Westbourne Park and Hammersmith stations) and the West London Railway (WLR) opened on 1st July 1864 which left this line at what is now Latimer Road to reach Addison Road (now Kensington Olympia). The link to Addison Road was closed on 19th October 1940. The original Westbourne Park station closed on 31st October 1871 to be replaced the following day by a new station constructed to the east of the original. From October 1871 there were platforms on the adjacent Great Western Main Line at Westbourne Park. These closed in March 1992. Trains on the Hammersmith & City Line serve the station and now also, in an effort to improve its reliability, the Circle Line. The next station in this direction is Ladbroke Grove. The Westway flyover can be seen beyond the building on the right. The afternoon was quite as miserable as it looks in the photograph.
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Image Location
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51.516988
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-0.212138