Park of Paddington

The station of Paddington is the name of one of principal the Gare S of the British railway network and a whole of stations of the London subway located in the district of Paddington at London (the United Kingdom). The unit is in zone 1 of urban tariffing ( Travelcard ).

The station Broad outlines is the London terminus of the trains serving the west of the country, Bristol, Bath and the south of the Wales, and certain suburban lines of the London west, the whole is exploited by the company First Great Western. The Heathrow Express train which serves the airport of Heathrow share also of this station. It is one of the seventeen stations managed by Network Rail.

Several stations of subway form also part of this station. They are on the line Hammersmith & City, surfaces some in north of the station and in parallel with it; on the lines District and Circle in sliced in front of the station and perpendicular to it; and on the line Bakerloo in galleries deeply buried under the station. Precisely, from the station, you can reach directly in the subway station Paddington

History

The first station open in the sector of Paddington was a provisional terminus of the company Great Western Railway on the west coast of street Bishop' S Bridge. The first connections of the GWR, connecting London to Taplow, close to Maidenhead, began in 1838 there. After the opening of the main station in 1854, this site was affected with the traffic of the goods. After many years of abandonment, it became a zone with mixed, residential vocation and businesses, called “Paddington Central”.

The main station of Paddington, located between the streets Bishops Bridge and Praed Street was brought into service in 1854. It was drawn by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose statue points out the memory in the hall of the lost steps, but much of architectural details are due to its associate, Matthew Digby Wyatt. The roof, provided with canopies, is supported by arches in Wrought iron in three flights, whose range is respectively of 20,7 m, 31,2 m and 21,30 m and long of 213 Mr.

A very old construction due to Brunel was recently immediately discovered in the north of the station; the structure in cast iron of the bridge supporting the street Bishop' S Bridge with the top of the railways was put at the day, after the removal of the preparing of brick S, more recent, at the time of the complete replacement of the bridge at the end of 2004.

The Hôtel Great Western was constuit in front of the station in 1868 - 74 by PC Hardwick. The station was substantially increased in 1906 - 15.

In 1863, the first line of Métro of the Metropolitan Railway was brought into service between Paddington and Farringdon. This line emerged from the tunnels in the north of the main station, on the level of a station known during many year under the name of Bishop' S Road , with a connection with the principal lines of the GWR, which made it possible to make circulate regular trains on the branch of Hammersmith of the GWR. Since the Years 1930 until the end of the Years 1960, the line Metropolitan Line and the services of suburbs of the GWR shared a group of four ways, maintaining the infrastructure of the subway is completely separated and constitutes the station of Paddington on the line Hammersmith & City.

In 1868 Metropolitan Railway opened a new line towards Kensington, with a baptized station Praed Street in a trench crossing this street from the main station. This station now constitutes the Paddington station of the Circulaire lines and District. It is connected to the main station and the line of Bakerloo by a pedestrian crossing which passes under Praed Street and the hotel Great Western.

In-depth stations of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway - now called Bakerloo Line - were open on February 1st 1913, with their quays right below the main station.

It is considered that line 1 of Crossrail (kind of the RER) stops at the station of Paddington.

Others

The Bear Paddington, character of books for children, owes his name at the station, besides it has its statue-moneybox (for unhappy childhood) in the hall and a small shop of the district is full with objects referring itself to it. In the book, it is found in the station in London, coming from very remote the Peru, with a ticket attached to its coat and the wording thus; “take care of this bear, thank you”.

See too

British Railway network

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