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Ealing Broadway
Ealing Broadway Location of Ealing Broadway in Greater London
Location	Ealing
Local authority	London Borough of Ealing
Managed by	TfL Rail[1]
Station code	EAL
DfT category	C1
Number of platforms	9
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2009	16.62 million[2]
2013	16.64 million[2]
2014	17.38 million[2]
2015	16.84 million[2]
2016	18.60 million[2]
2017	16.79 million[2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2012–13	5.334 million[3]
– interchange	86,052[3]
2013–14	5.286 million[3]
– interchange	91,438[3]
2014–15	5.818 million[3]
– interchange	0.107 million[3]
2015–16	6.581 million[3]
– interchange	47,051[3]
2016–17	6.373 million[3]
– interchange	37,391[3]
Railway companies
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1838	Opened (GWR)
1879	Opened (DR)
1920	Start (CLR)
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	TfL station info page Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°30′53″N 0°18′06″W / 51.5147°N 0.3017°W / 51.5147; -0.3017Coordinates: 51°30′53″N 0°18′06″W / 51.5147°N 0.3017°W / 51.5147; -0.3017
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Ealing Broadway is a major single-leveled interchange station in Ealing in London, England, in the London Borough of Ealing, West London and is served by the London Underground and also National Rail on the Great Western Main Line. On the Underground, it is one of three western termini of the District line, the next station being Ealing Common, and it is one of two western termini of the Central line, the next station being West Acton. On the National Rail networks, it is a through-station on the Great Western Main Line, 5 miles 56 chains (9.2 km) down the line from London Paddington and is situated between Acton Main Line and West Ealing.

The station is managed by TfL Rail in preparation of Crossrail. In December 2018 the TfL Rail service will be re-branded as the Elizabeth line and in December 2019 the Elizabeth line service will open to Reading and Heathrow Airport.

History

The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened its pioneering broad gauge tracks through Ealing Broadway between Paddington and Taplow on 6 April 1838, although Ealing Broadway station did not open until 1 December of that year. As the only station in the area when it opened, it was initially named 'Ealing',^[4] but was renamed Ealing Broadway in 1875.^[5]

District Railway (DR, now the District Line) services commenced on 1 July 1879, when the DR opened a branch from Turnham Green on its Richmond line. The DR built its own three-platform station to the north of the GWR one, although, following the installation of a connection between the two railways to the east of the stations, DR trains also served the GWR station from 1 March 1883 to 30 September 1885, on a short-lived service running to Windsor and Eton Central station, which was withdrawn as unremunerative.^[6][7][8][9] It was also intended to use the connection for a service to Uxbridge Vine Street station (via West Drayton), but this was never introduced.^[6]

Following electrification of the main District line route through Ealing Common to South Harrow in 1903, the section to Ealing Broadway was electrified in 1905, and the first electric trains ran to Ealing Broadway on 1 July 1905. The original brick-built DR station was replaced with a stone-faced building in 1910.^[10]

Prior to World War I, plans were made by the GWR to construct a new, mainly freight, line between Ealing and Shepherd's Bush, to connect west-to-south with the West London Railway. The Central London Railway (CLR, now the Central Line) would use the line by extending its tracks the short distance north from its terminus at Wood Lane (now closed), to meet the new GWR tracks. CLR services to two new platforms at Ealing Broadway, built between the GWR and DR stations, started on 3 August 1920, with, initially, just one intermediate stop at East Acton. The line also carried GWR steam freight trains until 1938, when the links at Ealing Broadway and west of North Acton were removed, and the line was fully transferred to London Underground.

Originally separate companies, by 1920 the DR (by then known as the District Railway) and the CLR were both owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL). Despite this, the CLR services operated via the GWR station building, not the Underground one.

The GWR-built station was demolished in 1961^[11] and replaced by a low concrete structure containing shops and a ticket hall, opened in 1965, with a high-rise office building above. The new station building serves all the lines, and the separate District Line station ticket hall was closed, although the building remains, and the original station facade is now the entrance for multiple shops.^[12]

On Platform 9 (District line) there are some roundels of a style dating from c. 1908, three of which are replicas made in 1992.^[13][14]

Accidents and incidents

• On 16 November 1937, a steam railcar overran signals and crashed into the signal box.^[15]
  

Main article: Ealing rail crash

• On 20 December 1973, an express passenger train was derailed when an unsecured inspection door on the locomotive hauling it struck point rodding, causing a set of points to move under the train. Ten people were killed, 94 were injured.^[16]
  


• On 19 July 2000, a Real IRA bomb was planted near tracks in the station. It was discovered and destroyed by police under a controlled explosion.^[17]
  

The station today

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[ v t e ] Ealing Broadway
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fast lines to/from west TfL Rail to West Ealing & others  1 20   3 40  5  6 70   8 90  Ealing Broadway TfL Rail to Acton Main Line District line to Ealing Common Central line to West Acton

The combined station has nine platforms:

• four National Rail (platforms 1 to 4). Trains do not stop at platforms 1 and 2, except during engineering works or other disruption. Platforms 1 and 3 are on lines leaving London, while 2 and 4 are on lines into London. Most of the National Rail platforms are open to the elements, although there are some waiting rooms on each platform.


• two Central line (5 and 6), which have a shared awning canopy.


• three District Line (7 to 9). District Line platforms 8 and 9 are partially covered by a short canopy, and retain a number of examples of early solid-disc Underground signs, used before Edward Johnston designed the familiar roundel in 1919.

All platforms are accessed through a gateline of ticket barriers.

Services

National Rail services are provided at the four Great Western Main Line platforms by Great Western Railway and TfL Rail.^[18] London Underground provide services to the three District line and the two Central line platforms.

Timetable

The typical off-peak service frequency (trains per hour – tph) is:

Great Western Railway

• 4tph to London Paddington
  


• 2tph to Reading
  


• 2tph to Didcot Parkway
  

TfL Rail

• 4tph to London Paddington (2tph does not call at Acton Main Line)


• 2tph to Hayes and Harlington
  


• 2tph to Heathrow Terminal 4
  

London Underground

• 6tph on the District line to Upminster via Earl's Court
  


• 9tph on the Central line of which:
  
  
  
  • 3tph to Hainault via Newbury Park
    
  
  
  • 3tph to Woodford via Hainault
  
  
  • 3tph to Newbury Park via Wanstead & Redbridge
    
  
  
  
  

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Terminus		Central line Ealing Broadway Branch		West Acton towards Epping, Hainault or Woodford (via Hainault)
		District line Ealing Broadway Branch		Ealing Common towards Upminster or High Street Kensington
	National Rail
London Paddington		Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line		West Ealing
Crossrail
London Paddington or Acton Main Line towards London Paddington		TfL Rail Paddington-Heathrow		West Ealing towards Hayes & Harlington or Heathrow Terminal 4
	Future development
Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
West Ealing towards Reading		Crossrail Elizabeth line		Paddington towards Shenfield
Hanwell towards Heathrow Airport		Crossrail Elizabeth line		Acton Main Line towards Abbey Wood
	Former services
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
West Ealing towards Windsor		District line		Ealing Common towards Mansion House

Connections

London Buses routes 65, 112, 207, 226, 297, 427, 483, 607, E1, E2, E7, E8, E9, E10 and E11 and night routes N7, N11, N83 and N207 serve the station.

Forthcoming improvements

Crossrail will call at Ealing Broadway. Through services across London are expected to commence in autumn 2019.^[19] To accommodate Crossrail services, various alterations will be made by Network Rail:

• Platforms 1–3 extended


• Step-free access^[20]
  


• Enlarged booking hall with more ticket gatelines


• New footbridge to the east end of the station linking platforms 1–4


• Construction of a new canopy on platform 4.^[21][22][23]
  


• Enlarged and remodelled pedestrian forecourt

Proposals

The West London Business group backs a Surbiton-to-Brent Cross light metro tube line, called the West London Orbital underground railway, based on Copenhagen Metro technology, which would include a station underground at Ealing Broadway.^[24][25] The London Borough of Ealing does not support the proposal, saying "no consensus to progress this project [due] to extremely high costs".^[26]

The London Group of the Campaign for Better Transport published a plan in 2008^[27] for an off-road orbital North and West London Light railway (NWLLR), sharing the Dudding Hill Line freight corridor, and using the middle two of the six track beds at North Acton. In April 2009 Ealing Council voted to call on Transport for London to look into the proposal.^[28]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ealing Broadway station.

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  London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  
  
  
  • District Railway station, 1907
  
  
  • District Railway station, 1916
  
  
  • Great Western Railway & Central Line station, 1933
  
  
  • District Line ticket hall, 1955
  
  
  • British Railways & Central Line station, 1955
  
  
  • Out of use District Line station building, 1982
  
  
  
  


• www.londonstation.com - Platforms 8 and 9 with early roundel signs visible

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  Train times and station information for Ealing Broadway station from National Rail