Hammersmith & City Line

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The Hammersmith and City Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured salmon pink on the Tube map, running between Hammersmith and Barking. Formerly part of the Metropolitan Line, it is the oldest underground railway in the world, as it includes the first part of the London Underground, the section between Paddington and Farringdon, which opened on January 10, 1863.

1 History
2 Trains
3 Map
4 Stations
5 See also
6 External links

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History

The line was a branch of the Metropolitan Line until 1988, though in later years it was increasingly operated as a separate line, with the sections not used by the rest of the Metropolitan line (from Hammersmith to Baker Street and from Liverpool Street to Barking sections) not included on the main Metropolitan Line maps. It is shown today as a distinct line in order to simplify the network from the passengers' point of view.

The name derives from the Hammersmith and City Railway (H&CR), a 5-km (3-mile) section between Hammersmith (Grove Road) and Westbourne Park that opened in 1864 and was built and operated jointly by the Metropolitan and Great Western Railways between 1864 and 1868.

Because the changeover is relatively recent, there are many stations on the line with permanent tiles and metal maps that still state that the Metropolitan Line runs there.

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Trains

All Hammersmith & City line trains are in the distinctive London Underground livery of Red, White and Blue and are the larger of the two sizes used on the network. It uses the C stock and shares trains with the Circle Line and the District Line (Wimbledon-Edgware Road branch).

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