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| Location | Westbourne Green |
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| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 2 |
| Fare zone | 2 |
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| 2005 | 1.382 million[1] |
| 2007 | 1.545 million[1] |
| 2008 | 1.83 million[1] |
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| 1871 | Opened |
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| List of stations | Underground · National Rail |
Royal Oak tube station is a station on the London Underground Hammersmith & City and Circle lines, between Westbourne Park and Paddington stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is the least used station on that line with 1.83 million passengers per annum,[citation needed] but is extremely busy during the annual Notting Hill Carnival.
The station opened on 30 October 1871 although the Metropolitan Railway extension to Hammersmith had opened in 1864. It is close to the A40(M) out of London. The station may be named after a nearby public house, the Royal Oak, which changed its name circa 2006, and is now called The Porchester.
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Royal Oak railway station
The previous Royal Oak railway station of the Great Western Railway (GWR) was closed as the Hammersmith and City line provided an alternative service. It was the first stop out of Paddington on the Great Western Main Line (GWML). The GWR Westbourne Park station on the line closed for the same reason. The first GWML stop out of Paddington is now Acton Main Line.
In popular culture
The station appears in the 2006 film Kidulthood.
It is on Lord Hills Bridge which is mentioned in the song 'Nature Springs' in the album 'The Good, The Bad and The Queen'.
References
- ^ a b c Transport for London - London Underground performance update
External links
Gallery
 Platform of the Royal Oak tube station looking westbound |
 Platform eastbound towards Paddington mainline station. Note the taxi service station to the left (closed since 10th December 2009), and 6 numbered approach lines |
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towards Hammersmith
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Hammersmith & City line |
towards Barking
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towards Hammersmith
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Circle line |
towards Edgware Road via Aldgate
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Layout
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Coordinates: 51°31′09″N 0°11′17″W / 51.51917°N 0.18806°W
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