Piccadilly Line (original) (raw)
The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map.
The line was opened as the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway in 1906, having been formed from the amalagamation of three planned tube railways: the Great Northern and Strand Railway, the Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway, and the "Deep-Level District". The original route was from Finsbury Park to Hammersmith. The line was expanded rapidly in the 1930s, taking over two branches of the District Line in the west, and extending through new tubes and surface tracks to Cockfosters in the north-east. These extensions are notable for the modern architecture of their stations, many designed by Charles Holden.
From 1907 to 1994, except during the Second World War, a short branch off the Piccadilly Line served Aldwych tube station.
Stations
in order from east to west
Cockfosters branch
- Terminus: Cockfosters
- Oakwood
- Southgate
- Arnos Grove
- Bounds Green
- Wood Green
- Turnpike Lane
- Manor House
- Finsbury Park
- Arsenal
- Holloway Road
- Caledonian Road
- King's Cross St Pancras
- Russell Square
- Holborn
- Covent Garden
- Leicester Square
- Piccadilly Circus
- Green Park
- Hyde Park Corner
- Knightsbridge
- South Kensington
- Gloucester Road
- Earl's Court
- Barons Court
- Hammersmith
- Turnham Green
- Acton Town
The line splits here into two branches - the Heathrow branch and the Uxbridge branch
Heathrow Branch
(continuing from Acton Town)
- South Ealing
- Northfields
- Boston Manor
- Osterley
- Hounslow East
- Hounslow Central
- Hounslow West
- Hatton Cross
- Heathrow Terminal 4
- Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3
This section is a loop - trains go to Hatton Cross, then Terminal 4, then Terminals 1,2,3 and then back to Hatton Cross
Uxbridge Branch
(continuing from Acton Town)
- Ealing Common
- North Ealing
- Park Royal
- Alperton
- Sudbury Town
- Sudbury Hill
- South Harrow
- Rayners Lane (from here through to Uxbridge trains share track with Metropolitan Line)
- Eastcote
- Ruislip Manor
- Ruislip
- Ickenham
- Hillingdon
- Terminus: Uxbridge