Stamford Brook
Stamford Brook Location of Stamford Brook in Greater London
Location	Chiswick
Local authority	London Borough of Hounslow
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	3 (2 active, 1 inactive)
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2020	1.32 million[1]
2021	1.22 million[2]
2022	2.11 million[3]
2023	2.13 million[4]
2024	2.27 million[5]
Railway companies
Original company	London and South Western Railway
Key dates
1 January 1869	Line opened
1 February 1912	Station opened
3 June 1916	L&SWR service ceased
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°29′42″N0°14′45″W / 51.49500°N 0.24583°W /51.49500; -0.24583
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Stamford Brook is aLondon Underground station on the eastern edge ofChiswick in westLondon. The station is served by theDistrict line and is betweenRavenscourt Park andTurnham Green stations. The main entrance is located onGoldhawk Road (A402) with a secondary entrance on Prebend Gardens. It is inLondon fare zone 2.

The station takes its name fromStamford Brook, a tributary of theRiver Thames that is nowpredominantly underground. The Piccadilly line uses the inside tracks, but does not stop here except in the westbound direction on rare occasions

The line through Stamford Brook station was opened on 1 January 1869 by theLondon and South Western Railway (L&SWR) on a new branch line toRichmond from theWest London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (nowKensington (Olympia)). The line ran throughShepherd's Bush andHammersmith via a now closed curve. Initially there were no stations betweenGrove Road station in Hammersmith (also now closed) andTurnham Green.

From its opening, a number of services operated over the route to Richmond in addition to the L&SWR including:

• District Railway (DR, now the District line) from 1 June 1877
• Great Western Railway, briefly in 1870 and from 1894 to 1910
• Metropolitan Railway (now theMetropolitan line), from 1877 to 1906

By 1 February 1912 when the station opened, only L&SWR and the DR still operated on the line and on 3 June 1916 the L&SWR withdrew its own service leaving the District Railway as the sole operator.

In the early 1930s, theLondon Electric Railway, precursor of the London Underground and owner of the District andPiccadilly lines, began the reconstruction of the tracks between Hammersmith andActon Town to enable the Piccadilly line to be extended from Hammersmith toUxbridge andHounslow West (then the terminus of what is now the Heathrow branch). Express non-stop tracks were provided for the Piccadilly line between the stopping lines of the District line. Services on the Piccadilly line began running through Stamford Brook on 4 July 1932.

Originally, the station had an island platform with District line trains serving one side in each direction. However, with the introduction of the Piccadilly line tracks, the eastbound District line track became the westbound Piccadilly line track and a new platform was built for the eastbound District line. This is why there is one island platform and one side platform serving three tracks; the eastbound Piccadilly line track is the only track that is unable to serve the station.

On 5 January 1964 an automatic ticket barrier was installed at the station at a cost of around £1000. It was the first such barrier to be installed anywhere on the London Underground. The ticket-checking device itself was simplistic, optically scanning a printed ternary code on each ticket to check for validity,^[6] and had a theoretical maximum throughput of 30 tickets per minute.^[7] Nonetheless, the device was seen as a large improvement over staffed barriers with staff checking tickets, and the experiment was expanded to other local stationsChiswick Park andRavenscourt Park.^[6]

London Buses route 237 serves the station directly, while routes110,190,267,H91 and night bus routeN9 run along Chiswick High Road and King Street, about 300 yards south of the station.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toStamford Brook tube station.

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Platforms at Stamford Brook, 1926
  • Booking hall, 1928
  • New eastbound District line platform, 1933
  • Stamford Brook station, main entrance, 1934
  • Stamford Brook station, secondary entrance, 1937

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Turnham Green towardsEaling Broadway orRichmond		District line		Ravenscourt Park towardsUpminster orHigh Street Kensington
Former services
Turnham Green towardsRichmond		London and South Western Railway (1869–1916)		Ravenscourt Park towardsWest Brompton
Abandoned Plans
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Turnham Green towardsRichmond		Central line (1920)		Ravenscourt Park towardsLiverpool Street

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• Tube stations in the London Borough of Hounslow
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