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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 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.

Table of contents

1 Stations

1.1 Cockfosters branch

2 Heathrow Branch

3 Uxbridge Branch

4 External links

Stations in order from east to west

Cockfosters branch

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

External links

http://www.thetube.com/content/faq/lines/Piccadilly.asp?exp=2

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