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English: This map showing the location of London Paddington station. It was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation.
The GWR was aware that Paddington was some distance from the centre of London, and in 1854 donated £175,000 (£20,748,000 as of 2023) to the North Metropolitan Railway in order that the station could have a link to the City. Consequently, Paddington was the original western terminus of the line when it opened on 1 January 1863. [27]
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]
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.
London Paddington station; the Great Western Hotel; St Mary's Hospital 51°31′1.2″N 0°10′23″W / 51.517000°N 0.17306°W / 51.517000; -0.17306 Praed Street ( / p r eɪ d / ) is a street in Paddington , west London, in the City of Westminster , most notable for being the location of London Paddington station and St Mary's ...
A map showing the wards of Paddington Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. The earliest extant references to Padington (or "Padintun", as in the Saxon Chartularies, 959 [2]), historically a part of Middlesex, appear in documentation of purported tenth-century land grants to the monks of Westminster by Edgar the Peaceful as confirmed by Archbishop Dunstan.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, Bishop's Road, Paddington. Artist: T. Bury. Lithograph, c. 1845. [2] Westbourne Terrace (centre, diagonal) on an 1869 Ordnance Survey map [3] Westbourne Terrace as seen from the intersection with Cleveland Terrace in August . Westbourne Terrace is a street in the Paddington district of the City of Westminster in
Paddington Basin is the name given to a long canal basin, and its surrounding area, in Paddington, London. The basin commences 500 m south of the junction known as Little Venice , of the Regent's Canal and the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal and runs for a similar length east–west.