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Gunnersbury
Refurbished District Line train
Location	Gunnersbury
Local authority	London Borough of Hounslow
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code(s)	GUN
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008	3.670 million
2009	3.826 million
2019	5.52 million
2020	2.18 million
2021	1.97 million
2022	3.87 million
2023	4.05 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2007–08	0.881 million
2008–09	0.936 million
2009–10	1.182 million
2010–11	1.388 million
Key dates
1869	Opened (L&SWR)
1869	Started (NLR)
1870	Started and Ended (GWR)
1877	Started (MR and MDR)
1894	Started (GWR)
1906	Ended (MR)
1910	Ended (GWR)
1916	Ended (L&SWR)
Other information
External links	TfL station info page Departures Facilities
London transport portal

Gunnersbury station is a London Underground and National Rail station in Gunnersbury in west London. The station is served by the District Line and London Overground trains on the North London Line and is managed by London Underground. On the District Line the station is between Template:LUL stations and Template:LUL stations stations. On the North London Line the station is between South Acton and Kew Gardens stations.

The station is located off Chiswick High Road (A315) and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

History

The station was opened as Brentford Road on 1 January 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) on a new branch line to Template:LUL stations built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now Template:LUL stations). The line ran through Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith via a now closed curve and Grove Road station in Hammersmith (also now closed). A short connection was also made from the North & South Western Junction Railway (N&SWJR) line to Brentford meeting the L&SWR line immediately north of the station. This line was served by the North London Railway (NLR).

Brentford Road station originally had four platforms; two on the line to Richmond and two serving a loop (the Chiswick Curve) which connected to the line through Kew Bridge station.

Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran services from Template:LUL stations to Richmond via Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City Line) tracks to Grove Road then on the L&SWR tracks through Gunnersbury.

The station was given its current name in 1871.

On 1 June 1877, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) opened a short extension from its terminus at Hammersmith to connect to the L&SWR tracks east of Template:LUL stations station. The MDR then began running trains over the L&SWR tracks to Richmond. On 1 October 1877, the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan Line) restarted the GWR's former service to Richmond via Grove Road station.

The MDR's service between Richmond, Hammersmith and central London was more direct than the NLR's route via Template:LUL stations, the L&SWR's or the MR's routes via Grove Road station or the L&SWR's other route from Richmond via Clapham Junction. From 1 January 1894, the GWR began sharing the MR's Richmond service and served Gunnersbury once again, meaning that passengers from Gunnersbury could travel on the services of five operators.

Following the electrification of the MDR's own tracks north of Template:LUL stations in 1903, the MDR funded the electrification of the tracks through Gunnersbury. The tracks on the Richmond branch were electrified on 1 August 1905. Whilst MDR services were operated with electric trains, the L&SWR, NLR, GWR and MR services continued to be steam hauled.

MR services were withdrawn on 31 December 1906 and GWR services were withdrawn on 31 December 1910 leaving operations at Gunnersbury to the MDR (by then known as the District Railway), the NLR and L&SWR. By 1916, the L&SWR's route through Hammersmith was being out-competed by the District to such a degree that the L&SWR withdrew its service between Richmond and Addison Road on 3 June 1916, leaving the District as the sole operator over that route.

In 1932, the Chiswick Curve was closed and the tracks were later removed. The site of the curve is now a housing estate known as Chiswick Village.

On 8 December 1954 the station was damanged by a tornado which ripped off the roof and injured six people. Almost exactly fifty-two years later, another tornado hit London, damaging several properties in the Kensal Rise area on 7 December 2006.

In the 1960s the station was redeveloped with just the two platforms it currently possesses. The London Overground and London Underground services share the same tracks.

References

1. "Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations". Transport for London. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
2. ^ {"Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018. Cite error: The named reference "infobox_stats_ref_tube_2007" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
6. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
7. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
8. ^ "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
9. History of UK Weather - 1954Photo of wreckage of Gunnersbury Station
10. BBC News Report of December 2006 Tornado

Transport links

London bus routes 237, 267, 391, 440, H91 and night route N9.

External links

• Train times and station information for Gunnersbury station from National Rail
• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06
• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Gunnersbury station, 1928
  • Gunnersbury station, 1955
  • View of platform, 2001
  • Station Entrance, 2001

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