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Chiswick Park
Station entrance
Chiswick ParkLocation of Chiswick Park in Greater London
Location	Chiswick
Local authority	London Borough of Ealing
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	2.44 million
2020	1.07 million
2021	1.01 million
2022	1.90 million
2023	2.07 million
Railway companies
Original company	District Railway
Key dates
1 July 1879	Opened as Acton Green
March 1887	Renamed Chiswick Park & Acton Green
1 March 1910	Renamed Chiswick Park
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1358798
Added to list	18 February 1987; 37 years ago (1987-02-18)
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°29′41″N 0°16′04″W / 51.49472°N 0.26778°W / 51.49472; -0.26778
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Chiswick Park is a London Underground station in the Acton Green district of Chiswick in West London. The station is served by the District line and is between Turnham Green and Acton Town stations. It is located at the junction of Bollo Lane and Acton Lane about 150 m north of Chiswick High Road (A315) and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station is near Acton Green common. The Piccadilly line uses the inside tracks, but, as there are no platforms on these tracks, their trains cannot stop here.

Location

Chiswick Park station is closer to Turnham Green (on the south side of Chiswick High Road) than the station of that name.

The station is located on the site of the Battle of Turnham Green (1642), during the First English Civil War. The Royalist lines, facing London, extended southward from the station to where the Great West Road now runs.

Immediately to the south of the station entrance, on the other side of the road junction, the tracks of the District line's Richmond branch cross under the road and about 100 m to the east of the station, the eastbound track crosses under the four District and Piccadilly line tracks on its way towards Turnham Green station.

The Gunnersbury Triangle nature reserve, run by the London Wildlife Trust, is a short walk from the station entrance.

History

The station was opened on 1 July 1879 by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on its extension from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway. The station was originally named Acton Green after the adjacent Acton Green Common to the east. It was renamed to Chiswick Park and Acton Green in March 1887.

Following the electrification of the DR's tracks north of Acton Town in 1903, services between Acton Town and central London were electrified on 1 July 1905. In 1910 the station was given its present name.

Between 1931 and 1932 the station was rebuilt, in preparation for the western extension of the Piccadilly line from Hammersmith. Although the Piccadilly line has never served the station, its trains run non-stop through the station on the centre tracks, and the reconstruction was required to enable the addition of two fast tracks for those services to be located between the District line's stopping service tracks.

The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Holden's design was inspired by Alfred Grenander's underground station Krumme Lanke in Berlin. Similar to the station at Arnos Grove that Holden designed for the eastern Piccadilly line extension, Chiswick Park station features a tall semi-circular ticket hall adjacent to the embankment carrying the tracks. Externally the brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof which abuts the cantilevered concrete canopy of the westbound platform. A similar canopy shelters the eastbound platform accessed through the embankment. To make the station's location visible from Chiswick High Road the station was also provided with a square brick tower surmounted by the UNDERGROUND roundel and the station's name.

The station has been a Grade II listed building since 18 February 1987.

In popular culture

The station appears on the cover of Caspa's Ave It Volume 1 EP.

References

1. "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.
2. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
6. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1358798)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
7. "The Battle of Turnham Green". Chiswick's Local Website. 19 November 2004. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2015.

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Chiswick Park and Acton Green station, 1901
  • View of platforms looking east as the station is rebuilt, 1932. The original timber platform remains in the centre as the new platforms are constructed either side of the tracks.
  • New station, 1932
  • Interior of ticket hall with passengers queuing at a passimeter for tickets, 1933
  • View of westbound platform, 1958

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Acton Towntowards Ealing Broadway		District lineEaling Broadway branch		Turnham Greentowards Upminster or High Street Kensington

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Other	Administration Chiswick Urban District (1858–1927) Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick (1927–1965) Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency) Bollo Brook Chiswick (1799 ship) † Chiswick Records

• Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3
• District line stations
• Tube stations in the London Borough of Ealing
• Former Metropolitan District Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1879
• Art Deco architecture in London
• Art Deco railway stations
• Charles Holden railway stations
• Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Ealing
• Grade II listed railway stations
• Buildings and structures in Chiswick
• 1879 establishments in England