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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 amalgamation 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 Art Deco 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
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)
Rolling Stock Used :
- 1973 tube stock (Current)
- 1959 tube stock
- 1956 tube stock
- 1938 tube stock
- standard tube
stock
- 1906 gate stock
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