Hammersmith & City Line
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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 Aldgate East, extending to Barking in the rush hours. 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 January 10, 1863.
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 sections) not included on the main Metropolitan Line maps. It is shown today as a distinct line in order to simplify the network from the passengers' point of view.
The name derives from the erstwhile Hammersmith and City Railway (H&CR), a 5-km (3-mile) section between Hammersmith and Westbourne Park that 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.
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Map
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Stations
in order from west to east
- Hammersmith
- Goldhawk Road
- Shepherd's Bush (Hammersmith)
- Latimer Road
- Ladbroke Grove
- Westbourne Park
- Royal Oak
- Paddington (Hammersmith)
- Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith Lines share the same metals from here)
- Baker Street
- Great Portland Street
- Euston Square
- King's Cross St Pancras
- Farringdon
- Barbican
- Moorgate
- Liverpool Street
- Aldgate East (the terminus during normal operating hours)
- the spur here is used by H&C trains only
- Whitechapel (District Line metals are used from here)
- Stepney Green
- Mile End
- Bow Road
- Bromley-by-Bow
- West Ham
- Plaistow
- Upton Park
- East Ham
- Barking
See also
Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways for details of opening of the H&CR
External links
- Hammersmith & City Line (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/company/linefacts/?line=hammersmith-city) - London Underground website
- Clive's Underground Line Guides: Hammersmith & City (http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/hammersmith.html)de:Hammersmith & City Line