Hammersmith & City line

Hammersmith and City
Colour on map	Red
Year opened	1980
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Rolling stock	S stock
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Depots	Hammersmith
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}} The Hammersmith & City line is a subsurface London Underground line, coloured salmon pink on the London Underground Map, connecting Hammersmith in west London and Barking in east London. Formerly part of the Metropolitan line, it includes the oldest underground railway in the world. The section between Paddington and Farringdon, which opened on 10 January 1863, was the initial part of the London Underground.

The original Hammersmith & City line opened on 13 June 1864, although Hammersmith station itself moved to a different location in 1868. With the exception of the two-stop Waterloo & City line and the East London Line (which is now a London Overground service), it has been the least used line on the Underground. It ranks 10th of the 11 lines in passenger numbers. Out of the 29 stations served, 10 have Hammersmith & City line platforms that are wholly or almost wholly below ground, all in1 cut-and-cover, while those at Paddington, Edgware Road, Farringdon, Barbican and Whitechapel are in cuttings or under train-sheds albeit below street level.

Since December 2009 the route between Hammersmith and Liverpool Street has been supplemented by the Circle line. With this change, the Hammersmith & City line no longer has any stations unique to it.

History

The current Hammersmith & City line was originally a branch of the Metropolitan line until 1988, though in later years it was usually operated as a separate line, with the sections not used by regular Metropolitan line trains (from Hammersmith to Baker Street and from Liverpool Street to Barking) not included on the main Metropolitan line maps. This is also reflected in the line's use of C Stock as opposed to the A Stock used on the 'main' Metropolitan line.

The name Hammersmith & City derives from the Hammersmith and City Railway (H&CR), the 5 km (Template:Convert/mi) section between Hammersmith (Grove Road) railway station and Westbourne Park that opened in 1864, which was built and operated jointly by the Metropolitan and Great Western Railways until 1868. Though now part of the Underground network, this section is an elevated railway, largely built on brick arches and bridges.

Because the name change of the route to the separate identity of the Hammersmith & City line is relatively recent, there are many stations with tiling or enamel maps that still show that they are served by the Metropolitan line, e.g. Bromley-by-Bow station, shared by the H&C and the District line. The Metropolitan line no longer has any interchange with the District.

Rolling stock

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 (Wimbledon-Edgware Road branch) lines. Starting in 2011, the C Stock used on the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines will be replaced by new S Stock trains, which will also replace the District line's D Stock and the Metropolitan line's A Stock.

Map

Geographically accurate path of the Hammersmith & City line

Map of the line before the new Wood Lane station was added and before Shepherd's Bush (H&C) was renamed Shepherd's Bush Market.

Stations

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File:C Stock at Wood Lane.JPG

Hammersmith & City line train at Wood Lane

in order from west to east

Station	Image	Opened	Additional information
Hammersmith Handicapped/disabled access	File:Hammersmith (H & C line) station building.JPG	1 December 1868	Original station opened 13 June 1864, change for Circle line
Goldhawk Road	File:Goldhawk Road stn west entrance.JPG	1 April 1914
Shepherd's Bush Market	File:Shepherd's Bush Market stn east entrance.JPG	1 April 1914	Opened as Shepherd's Bush on 13 June 1864
Wood Lane Handicapped/disabled access	File:Wood Lane stn entrance.JPG	12 October 2008	Change for Central line at White City
Latimer Road	File:Latimer Road Tube Station with Trellick Tower.jpg	16 December 1868
Ladbroke Grove	File:Ladbroke Grove stn building.JPG	13 June 1864	Originally called Notting Hill, renamed Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove in 1880, renamed Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington) on 1 June 1919, current name is from 1938
Westbourne Park	File:Westbourne Park stn building.JPG	1 February 1866
Royal Oak	File:Royal Oak stn building.JPG	30 October 1871
Paddington File:National Rail logo.svg (File:BSicon FLUG.svg Trains to Heathrow)	File:Paddington H&C station 03.jpg	1 December 1913
Edgware Road	File:EdgwareRdHammersmith.jpg	1 October 1863
Baker Street	File:BakerStEntrance.JPG	10 January 1863
Great Portland Street	File:Great Portland St Tube Station.jpg	10 January 1863	Originally Portland Road
Euston Square (File:National Rail logo.svg Euston)	File:Euston Square stn look east.JPG	1863	Originally Gower Street
King's Cross St Pancras Handicapped/disabled access File:National Rail logo.svg (File:BSicon FLUG.svg Trains to Gatwick and Luton)	File:KXSP 2006-05-30 07.jpg	1863
Farringdon File:National Rail logo.svg (File:BSicon FLUG.svg Trains to Gatwick and Luton)	File:Farringdon station exterior.jpg	10 January 1863
Barbican	File:Barbican station entrance.JPG	1865	Opened as Aldersgate Street, renamed to Aldersgate in 1910, renamed Aldersgate and Barbican in 1923, current name is from 1968
Moorgate File:National Rail logo.svg	File:Moorgate.jpg	1865
Liverpool Street File:National Rail logo.svg (File:BSicon FLUG.svg Trains to Stansted)	File:Liverpool Street Underground concourse entr.JPG	12 July 1875	Opened as Bishopsgate, renamed 1 November 1909
Aldgate East	File:Aldgate East stn southwest entrance.JPG	6 October 1884
Whitechapel	File:Whitechapel tube station entrance.jpg	6 October 1884
Stepney Green	File:Stepney Green stn building.JPG	1902
Mile End	File:Mile End stn entrance.JPG	1902
Bow Road	File:Bow Road stn building.JPG	1902
Bromley-by-Bow	File:Bromley-by-Bow stn entrance.JPG	1858	Service for the Hammersmith and City line began in 1936
West Ham Handicapped/disabled access File:National Rail logo.svg	File:West Ham stn entrance.JPG	1 February 1901	New centre siding to be constructed for Hammersmith and City line trains
Plaistow	File:Plaistow station building.JPG	1858	Service for the Hammersmith and City line began in 1936
Upton Park	File:Upton Park tube station 1.jpg	1877	Service for the Hammersmith and City line began in 1936
East Ham Handicapped/disabled access	File:East ham tube station london.jpg	1858	Service for the Hammersmith and City line began in 1988
Barking File:National Rail logo.svg Handicapped/disabled access	File:Barking station 1.jpg	1854	Service for the Hammersmith and City line began in 1936

Changes in December 2009

Between Hammersmith and Edgware Road, the service has been supplemented by Circle line trains since 13 December 2009, when that route changed from its previous orbital route. This is intended to cause fewer delays since, under the previous Circle line arrangements, one delayed train would affect all following trains. Having a terminus at Edgware Road, rather than the continuous orbital route, will avoid this.

The Hammersmith & City line continues to run as a separate route, with trains running to Barking and Plaistow in the east. The headway on the Hammersmith - Edgware Road leg has been reduced from seven to four minutes by this schedule change, and the alternation of Hammersmith & City with Circle trains will now provide 12 trains per hour at peak times on this section, doubling the previous frequency.

Depots

There is one depot, Hammersmith, which is located close to the Hammersmith station. However, that depot can only do minor work and other work may be done at the Neasden Depot.

Maps

• ^map 1 Hammersmith - 51°29′39″N 000°13′30″W
• ^map 2 Goldhawk Road - 51°30′07″N 000°13′37″W
• ^map 3 Shepherd's Bush Market - 51°30′21″N 000°13′35″W
• ^map 4 Wood Lane - 51°30′35″N 000°13′27″W
• ^map 5 Latimer Road - 51°30′50″N 000°13′02″W
• ^map 6 Ladbroke Grove - 51°31′02″N 000°12′38″W
• ^map 7 Westbourne Park - 51°31′16″N 000°12′04″W
• ^map 8 Royal Oak - 51°31′09″N 000°11′17″W
• ^map 9 London Paddington - 51°31′02″N 000°10′39″W
• ^map 10 Edgware Road - 51°31′12″N 000°10′04″W
• ^map 11 Baker Street - 51°31′19″N 000°09′25″W
• ^map 12 Great Portland Street - 51°31′26″N 000°08′38″W
• ^map 13 Euston Square - 51°31′33″N 000°08′09″W
• ^map 14 King's Cross St. Pancras - 51°31′49″N 000°07′27″W
• ^map 15 Farringdon - 51°31′12″N 000°06′19″W

• ^map 16 Barbican - 51°31′13″N 000°05′52″W
• ^map 17 Moorgate - 51°31′07″N 000°05′19″W
• ^map 18 Liverpool Street - 51°31′07″N 000°04′53″W
• ^map 19 Aldgate East - 51°30′55″N 000°04′20″W
• ^map 20 Whitechapel - 51°31′08″N 000°03′40″W
• ^map 21 Stepney Green - 51°31′19″N 000°02′47″W
• ^map 22 Mile End - 51°31′30″N 000°01′59″W
• ^map 23 Bow Road - 51°31′38″N 000°01′29″W
• ^map 24 Bromley-by-Bow - 51°31′26″N 000°00′41″W
• ^map 25 West Ham - 51°31′41″N 000°00′14″E
• ^map 26 Plaistow - 51°31′53″N 000°01′02″E
• ^map 27 Upton Park - 51°32′06″N 000°02′04″E
• ^map 28 East Ham - 51°32′20″N 000°03′06″E
• ^map 29 Barking - 51°32′21″N 000°04′54″E
• ^map 30 Hammersmith Depot - 51°29′52″N 000°13′31″W
• ^map 31 Neasden Depot - 51°33′28″N 000°15′31″W

External links

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• Hammersmith and City line facts. Transport for London. Retrieved on 2008-07-11.
• Hammersmith & City Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides (2007-12-14). Retrieved on 2008-07-11.

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