Hammersmith & City Line
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| Hammersmith & City Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Colour on map | Salmon Pink | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year opened | 1863 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line type | Sub-Surface | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rolling stock | C Stock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stations served | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length (km) | 26.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length (miles) | 16.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depots | Hammersmith Neasden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journeys made | 45,845,000 (per annum) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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.
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 Line and the District Line (Wimbledon-Edgware Road branch).
Map
Stations
in order from west to east
(change for District Line and Piccadilly Line)
- Edgware Road
- Baker Street
- Great Portland Street
- Euston Square
- King's Cross St Pancras
- Farringdon
- Barbican
- Moorgate
- Liverpool Street
- Aldgate East
- Whitechapel (the terminus on Sundays)
- Stepney Green
- Mile End
- Bow Road
- Bromley-by-Bow
- West Ham
See also
Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways for details of opening of the H&CRExternal links
- [Hammersmith & City Line] - London Underground website
- [Clive's Underground Line Guides: Hammersmith & City]
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