| Summary : Ealing Station, later Ealing Broadway, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1839. The station was rebuilt with the quadrupling of the line from Paddington circa 1877. 'Underground' services arrived here in 1879 when the District Railway was extended from Turnham Green. The District's station was designed by a Mr Clemmence under the supervision of John Wolfe-Barry. When Central Line services started running on 3 August 1920 over the extension from Wood Lane they used the Great Western Railway station. A new island platform was built for the Central London trains, squeezed in between the District terminus and the GWR up relief platform. There was also a connection to the District tracks, to permit rolling stock transfers. In 1965, reconstruction and redevelopment for a office block and shopping centre at Ealing Broadway provided a new ticket hall for all lines, with the BR and Central Line sections opening on 5th December 1965. |