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| Location | Ruislip |
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| Local authority | London Borough of Hillingdon |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
| Station code | WRU |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 6 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2005 | 0.965 million[1] |
| 2007 | 1.253 million[2] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 96,005[3] |
| 2005–06 | 91,527[3] |
| 2006–07 | 162,567[3] |
| 2007–08 | 0.177 million[3] |
| 2008–09 | 0.199 million[3] |
| 1906 | Opened (GWR/GCR) |
| 1948 | Opened (Central line) |
| Lists of stations | *DLR |
| External links | *Departures
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West Ruislip is a Network Rail station located on Ickenham Road between Ickenham and Ruislip in western Greater London; it is served by both London Underground (LU) and National Rail trains on independent platforms. It is the western terminus of the LU Central Line's West Ruislip branch, with Ruislip Gardens as the next Underground station towards central London. National Rail services are provided by Chiltern Railways, West Ruislip is between South Ruislip and Denham. The station is managed by Chiltern Railways.[4]
History[]
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of West Ruislip (shown here as Ruislip & Ickenham)
The station was opened on 2 April 1906 as Ruislip & Ickenham by the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway (GW&GCJR). The GW&GCJR connected London and the Midlands via High Wycombe and provided an alternative route to the Great Central Railway's (GCR's) main line through Aylesbury, Harrow and Wembley which shared its route with the Metropolitan Railway.
Prior to the Second World War plans had been made for a number of extensions to the Central Line. The London Passenger Transport Board's (LPTB's) 1935-40 New Works programme included the extension of the Central Line to run alongside the Great Western Railway (GWR) tracks from North Acton to South Ruislip and the GW&GCJR tracks from there as far as Denham, although the introduction of Metropolitan Green Belt caused the extension to be cut back to West Ruislip. Had the extension been built in full, the next station would have been Harefield Road. Preparatory work on this extension had started just before the war and a section of trackbed had been constructed for the extension can be seen beyond the buffer stops of the Central line tracks alongside the National Rail line.
The additional tracks were constructed by the GWR on behalf of the LPTB and on 30 June 1947, the first section of the western extension opened from North Acton to Greenford. On the same date the station name was changed to West Ruislip (for Ickenham).
Central Line services began running from West Ruislip on 21 November 1948.
The station building was built by British Railways for London Underground and was not completed until the 1960s and at about the same time the sub-title was omitted from the station name. Some Central Line stations with older signage still show the longer name on the line diagrams on their platforms.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.[5]
Transport links[]
London bus routes U1 and U10.
The station today[]
West Ruislip station is aligned approximately east-west with the main station buildings on the road overbridge across the lines at the western end of the station. The station has four platforms; two each for London Underground and National Rail services. The London Underground tracks are south of the National Rail ones and operate from an island platform whilst the National Rail platforms are outside of their tracks. The National Rail platforms are also served by a separate station building north of the tracks and adjacent to the car park. A single weekday service from Gerrards Cross calls at the station at 1012 hrs (as of July 2009), running non-stop to London Paddington. It traverses the rarely used former main line between Northolt Park Junction and Old Oak Common Junction, in many places reduced to a single track. This section is used more frequently by freight and waste trains, and by diversions during engineering works. The return service leaves Paddington at 1120 hrs, calling first at Gerrards Cross, and terminating at Princes Risborough.
In a legacy of the original scheme to continue the extension to Denham, the Central Line tracks continue for a short distance beyond the station before ending at buffers. The intended alignment of the unbuilt tracks can be seen from the width of the unused railway land south of the existing tracks.
The Central Line's Ruislip depot is east of West Ruislip station, and has a connection via a shunting neck to the Network Rail westbound track west of the station to allow rolling stock and material deliveries. The depot also has a connection to the Uxbridge branch tracks of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines which pass under the Central Line east of West Ruislip; it is used only for empty stock movements and works train access. Two sidings west of the station to the north of the running lines provide layover facilities for works trains.
There are ticket barriers at the main entrance to the station; these control access to the Central Line platforms from the public highway and from the pedestrian walkway linking the car park to the station. The Chiltern platforms can be reached from the car park walkway without tickets, as no ticket barriers are installed to control access.
Nearby places[]
How the Central Line extension to Harefield Road and Denham would have appeared on the London Underground Map today if it had been constructed
- Ruislip
- Ickenham
- Adjacent to the station is RAF West Ruislip which was until 2006 a co-located US Navy facility and elementary school, the US Navy turned the facility over to the UK MoD and the site is currently under going commercial development.[6] Former site of a US Air Force facility.
Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ Template:Citation London Underground performance exits 2003 to 2011
- ↑ Template:Citation London Underground performance exits 2003 to 2011
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Template:Citation ORR rail usage data
- ↑ National Rail - station information page for West Ruislip
- ↑ "Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services" (May 1974). Railway Magazine 120 (877). London: IPC Transport Press Ltd. ISSN 0033-8923.
- ↑ http://www.vsmestates.co.uk/schemes_west_ruislip.htm
External links[]
- Train times and station information for West Ruislip station from National Rail
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