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Entrance from the mainline station. In December 2009, Circle line services began serving the station. Originally operating as a loop-line using tracks constructed by the MR and the DR and serving only the station in Praed Street, the Circle line's route was altered to include the Hammersmith branch to increase train frequency on the branch and improve the regularity of Circle line trains.
The station was the second opened by the MR at Paddington. The earlier station, named Paddington (Bishop's Road), opened on 10 January 1863. [10] It is north of the mainline station and is served by trains on the Hammersmith branch. From 1 November 1926, the MR provided all Inner Circle services. [10]
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After Paddington station this branch joins the Hammersmith & City line at Praed Street junction, before terminating at the four-platform Edgware Road. [36] The main line joins the Circle line at Gloucester Road and the line and stations are in cut-and-cover tunnels, meeting the Thames at Westminster station , after which the railway is in the ...
There is a fictional underground Paddington station on the North London System in the novel The Horn of Mortal Danger (1980). [112] Paddington station was the subject of William Powell Frith's 1862 painting The Railway Station. The portrait was viewed by over 21,000 people (paying a shilling each) in the first seven weeks of its being publicly ...
High Street Kensington station in 1892 In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway , the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon , connecting the Great Western Railway 's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City , London's financial district.
The line passes over the Windrush line at Whitechapel station continuing on the 2-mile (3.2 km) former Whitechapel & Bow Railway to Bow Road where it surfaces, and then to Bromley-by-Bow, where it runs alongside the London, Tilbury and Southend line from Fenchurch Street. At the next station, West Ham, there is a transfer with the Jubilee line ...
Paddington tube station may refer to one of two London Underground stations serving Paddington mainline station that are shown as a single station on the tube map: Paddington tube station (Bakerloo, Circle and District lines) Paddington tube station (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines)