Piccadilly Line
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 amalgamation 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
Art Deco 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
\nin order from east to west
Cockfosters branch
\n* Terminus: Cockfosters\n* Oakwood\n* Southgate\n* Arnos Grove\n* Bounds Green\n* Wood Green\n* Turnpike Lane\n* Manor House\n* Finsbury Park\n* Arsenal\n* Holloway Road\n* Caledonian Road\n* Disused - York Road\n* King's Cross St. Pancras\n* Russell Square\n* Holborn\n* A short branch used to operate from here to Aldwych. This is now Disused\n* Covent Garden\n* Leicester Square\n* Piccadilly Circus\n* Green Park\n* Disused - Down Street\n* Hyde Park Corner\n* Knightsbridge\n* Disused - Brompton Road \n* South Kensington\n* Gloucester Road\n* Earl's Court\n* Barons Court\n* Hammersmith\n* Turnham Green\n* Acton Town
The line splits here into two branches - the Heathrow branch and the Uxbridge branch
Heathrow Branch
\n(continuing from Acton Town)\n* South Ealing\n* Northfields\n* Boston Manor\n* Osterley\n* Hounslow East\n* Hounslow Central\n* Hounslow West\n* Hatton Cross\n* Heathrow Terminal 4\n* 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
\n(continuing from Acton Town)\n* Ealing Common\n* North Ealing\n* Park Royal\n* Alperton\n* Sudbury Town\n* Sudbury Hill\n* South Harrow\n* Rayners Lane (from here through to Uxbridge trains share track with Metropolitan Line)\n* Eastcote\n* Ruislip Manor\n* Ruislip\n* Ickenham\n* Hillingdon\n* Terminus: Uxbridge
Rolling Stock Used :\n* 1973 tube stock (Current)\n* 1959 tube stock\n* 1956 tube stock\n* 1938 tube stock\n* standard tube stock\n* 1906 gate stock
External links
\n* Piccadilly Line - London Underground page
Category: London's railways
