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Hammersmith & City Line

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Colour on map

Salmon Pink

Year opened

1863

Line type

Sub-Surface

Rolling stock

C Stock

Stations served

Length (km)

26.5

Length (miles)

16.5

Depots

Hammersmith
Neasden

Journeys made

45,845,000 (per annum)

Rail lines of
Transport for London

London Underground lines
	Bakerloo
	Central
	Circle
	District
	East London
	Hammersmith & City
	Jubilee
	Metropolitan
	Northern
	Piccadilly
	Victoria
	Waterloo & City
Other lines
	Docklands Light Railway
	Tramlink
	Overground (starts November 2007)

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The Hammersmith and City Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured salmon pink on the Tube map, running between Hammersmith and Barking. Formerly part of the Metropolitan Line, it is the oldest underground railway in the world, as it includes the first part of the London Underground, the section between Paddington and Farringdon, which opened on January 10, 1863.

1 History
2 Trains
3 Map
4 Stations
5 Future plans
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] History

The line was a branch of the Metropolitan Line until 1988, though in later years it was increasingly operated as a separate line, with the sections not used by the rest of the Metropolitan line (from Hammersmith to Baker Street and from Liverpool Street to Barking) not included on the main Metropolitan Line maps.

The name derives from the Hammersmith and City Railway (H&CR), a 5-km (3-mile) section between Hammersmith (Grove Road) and Westbourne Park that opened in 1864 and was built and operated jointly by the Metropolitan and Great Western Railways between 1864 and 1868.

Because the changeover is relatively recent, there are many stations on the line with permanent tiles and metal maps that still state that the Metropolitan Line runs there.

[edit] Trains

All Hammersmith & City line trains are in the distinctive London Underground livery of red, white and blue and are formed of C stock. The line shares trains with the Circle and District Line (Wimbledon-Edgware Road branch).

[edit] Map

Image:Hammersmith & City Line.png

[edit] Stations

in order from west to east

Hammersmith Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg (change for District Line and Piccadilly Line)
Goldhawk Road
Shepherd's Bush
Latimer Road
Ladbroke Grove
Westbourne Park
Royal Oak
Paddington (change for Bakerloo Line, Circle Line and District Line and First Great Western trains)

merges with Circle Line and Metropolitan Line

separates from Circle Line, joins District Line

Aldgate East
Whitechapel (the terminus on Sundays)
Stepney Green
Mile End
Bow Road
Bromley-by-Bow
West Ham Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg
Plaistow
Upton Park
East Ham Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg
Barking Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg

[edit] Future plans

A new station is currently under construction on the Hammersmith & City line, between Shepherd's Bush and Latimer Road, to be called Wood Lane. The new station is due to open in 2008, and is the first new station to be added to an existing, unextended tube line for over 70 years. There is a defunct station on the Central line which was also called Wood Lane, which closed in 1947, and one on the Metropolitan Line of the same name which was open from 1908–1914 and 1920–1959.

At the same time, Shepherd's Bush station on the Hammersmith & City line will be renamed to Shepherd's Bush Market to avoid confusion with the Central line Shepherd's Bush.[1]