Hammersmith & City Line

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Hammersmith & City

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. It ranks 10th out of the 12 lines in passenger numbers.

1 History
2 Trains
3 Map
4 Stations
5 Future plans
6 See also
7 References
8 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 (Wimbledon-Edgware Road branch) lines.

[edit] Map

[edit] Stations

in order from west to east

Hammersmith (change for District Line and Piccadilly Line)
Goldhawk Road
Shepherd's Bush
Latimer Road
Ladbroke Grove
Westbourne Park
Royal Oak
Paddington (change for First Great Western and Heathrow Express/Connect trains)

merges with Circle Line

Edgware Road (change for Circle Line and District Line trains)
Baker Street (change for Bakerloo Line, Jubilee Line and Metropolitan Line trains)
Great Portland Street
Euston Square
King's Cross St Pancras
Farringdon
Barbican
Moorgate
Liverpool Street

separates from Circle Line, joins District Line

[edit] Future plans

A new station is under construction between Shepherd's Bush and Latimer Road, to be called Wood Lane. The building has been designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, who previously designed Bermondsey tube station. It is due to open in 2008, and is the first new station to be added to an existing stretch of line for over 70 years. There were Wood Lane stations on the Central Line, which closed in 1947, and on the Metropolitan Line (now Hammersmith & City Line), which was open 1908–1914 and 1920–1959.

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

The Hammersmith and City Line may absorb the Circle Line in 2011 to form a spiral route. The new route would run from Hammersmith to Paddington and then do a complete loop of the current Circle Line, terminating at Edgware Road. This would mean fewer delays than the existing orbital route. On the current Circle Line one delayed train tends to affect all following trains. Having a terminus at Edgware Road, rather than the orbital route, would avoid this.