Piccadilly Line

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.

Stations in order from east to west

Cockfosters branch

• Terminus: Cockfosters
• Enfield West[?]
• Southgate
• Arnos Grove[?]
• Bounds Green[?]
• Wood Green
• Turnpike Lane
• Manor House[?]
• Finsbury Park
• Arsenal (formerly Gillespie Road)
• Holloway Road[?]
• Caledonian Road[?]
• York Road (now closed)
• King's Cross
• Holborn
• Covent Garden
• Leicester Square
• Piccadilly Circus
• Green Park
• Hyde Park Corner[?]
• Knightsbridge
• South Kensington[?]
• Gloucester Road[?]
• Earl's Court[?]
• Barons Court[?]
• Hammersmith
• Turnham Green[?] (infrequent service)
• Acton Town[?]

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