Paddington station

Paddington railway station,^[4] also known as London Paddington,^[5] is the main National Rail and London Underground station in northwest central London. It also has access to the Elizabeth Line.

Paddington
London Paddington
The Victorian train shed at Paddington at Night
Paddington Location of Paddington in Central London
Location	Paddington
Local authority	City of Westminster
Managed by	Network Rail
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	PAD
DfT category	A
Number of platforms	13
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	1
OSI	Paddington Bakerloo, Circle and District lines station Paddington Circle and Hammersmith & City lines station Marylebone Lancaster Gate [2]
Cycle parking	Yes
Toilet facilities	Yes
National Rail annual entry and exit
2013–14	35.09 million[3]
2014–15	35.72 million[3]
2015–16	36.54 million[3]
2016–17	35.84 million[3]
Railway companies
Original company	Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 June 1838	Temporary station opened
29 May 1854	Permanent station opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51.5173°N 0.1774°W / 51.5173; -0.1774

Station location map

The site is old. It has been as the London end of the Great Western Railway and its successors since 1838. Much of the current mainline station dates from 1854, and was made by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The site was first served by Underground trains in 1863, and was the first western end-point of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway.

The station now has an extra job as the London end point for the Heathrow Express airport service. Paddington is in Travelcard Zone 1.

Services

Rail

The fast services are run by First Great Western. The main stations for the services are shown below:^[6]

Flows on long journey trains to or from Paddington

	Journeys in 2007/08 (million)
Reading	4.0
Didcot Parkway	1.1
Swindon	1.0
Bristol Temple Meads	0.9
Bath Spa	0.8
Cardiff Central	0.7
Bristol Parkway	0.6
Newbury	0.6
Exeter St Davids	0.4
Chippenham	0.4

There are also trains to Slough, Ealing, Heathrow Airport and Maidenhead.^[7]

One train from Paddington goes to Heathrow Airport that being the Heathrow Express which travels to Heathrow airport and doesn't stop at any stations along the way.^[8]

Underground

Below are the lines and main stations on the line:

• Bakerloo line services:^[9]

Edgware Road

Oxford Circus

Charings Cross

Waterloo

Wembley

• Circle line services:^[10]

Kings Cross

Liverpool street

Blackfrias

Victoria

Westminster

• District line services:^[11]

Earls Court

Notting Hill Gate

National Rail

The National Rail part is named London Paddington, a name used outside London, but not by many people who live there. Parts of the station, like the main train shed, were built in 1854 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the London end point for the Great Western Railway (GWR). Today, it is one of 18 UK railway stations looked after by Network Rail.^[12]

Paddington has 14 end platforms, numbered 1 to 14. Platforms 1 to 8 are below the oldest three parts of Brunel's 1854 train shed, and platforms 9 to 12 are below the fourth part. Platforms 13 and 14 are within the Metropolitan Railway's old Bishop's Road station to the north-west. There are two through platforms, 15 and 16, used by the London Underground's Hammersmith & City and Circle lines.^[13]

	Paddington (Praed Street)
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Warwick Avenue towards Harrow & Wealdstone		Bakerloo line		Edgware Road towards Elephant & Castle
Bayswater towards Hammersmith (via Tower Hill)		Circle line		Edgware Road Subsurface station Terminus
Bayswater towards Wimbledon		District line
	Paddington (Suburban)
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Royal Oak towards Hammersmith		Circle line		Edgware Road towards Edgware Road (via Aldgate)
		Hammersmith & City line		Edgware Road towards Barking

References

1. "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
2. "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
3. "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
4. "Stations Run by Network Rail". Network Rail. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
5. "Station Codes". National Rail. Archived from the original on 25 November 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
6. "Great Western Route Utilisation Study" (PDF). Figure 3.10. Network Rail. March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
7. Paddington Archived 2012-01-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 July 2012
8. "Our Company". Heathrow Express. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
9. Bakerloo Line services Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 July 2012
10. Circle Line services Archived 2012-04-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 4 2012
11. District Line services Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 4 2012
12. Network Rail Archived 2012-09-01 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 17 July 2012
13. "Paddington - Station Guide" (PDF). Network Rail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2012.