London - Ravenscourt Park station in 1934 - Museum postcard c.1992

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• Picture / Image:  Day trip from Ravenscourt Park, 1934 / from the Book a Journey Through Time, 1992
• Publisher: London Transport Museum, London
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Ravenscourt Park is a London Underground station located in west Hammersmith, west London. The station is served by the District line and is between Hammersmith and Stamford Brook stations.

The station is located between Dalling Road (B408) and Ravenscourt Road and is about 100 m north of King Street (A315). The station takes its name from the nearby Ravenscourt Park and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station has four tracks serviced by two island platforms. The outside tracks are used by the District line. The Piccadilly line uses the inside tracks, but does not stop here except on rare occasions, such as engineering works taking place on other sections of the District line, and during all-night services on New Year's Eve. London Assemblymember Murad Qureshi has called for Piccadilly line trains to stop at Ravenscourt Park on a regular basis.

The line through Ravenscourt Park station was opened on 1 January 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) on a new branch line to Richmond. The branch was built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now Kensington (Olympia)). The line ran through Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith via a now closed curve and initially the next station west from Hammersmith (Grove Road) (also now closed) was Turnham Green.^[2]

Ravenscourt Park station was opened as Shaftesbury Road by the L&SWR on 1 April 1873.^[3]

On 1 June 1877, the District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened a short extension from its t

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