Acton Town tube station

Acton Town is a London Underground station in Acton, West London, in the London Borough of Ealing, close to its boundary with the London Borough of Hounslow. The station is served by the District and Piccadilly lines, and is in London fare zone 3. On the Ealing Broadway branch of the District line, the station is between Ealing Common and Chiswick Park stations. On the Piccadilly line, it is between Ealing Common (on the Uxbridge branch) or South Ealing (on the Heathrow branch) and Hammersmith (or Turnham Green in the early mornings and late evenings) stations. Acton Town station was opened as Mill Hill Park on 1 July 1879 by the District Railway (now the District line). It remained as a terminus until on 1 May 1883 and 23 June 1903 the District Railway opened two branches from Acton Town to Hounslow Town and Park Royal & Twyford Abbey respectively. On 4 July 1932 the Piccadilly line was extended to Acton Town. District line services to both the Hounslow and Uxbridge branches were withdrawn completely on 9 and 10 October 1964 after which operations were provided by the Piccadilly line alone. The original brick-built station was built in 1879 and in February 1910 the station building was reconstructed. On 1 March 1910 the station was given its present name. In 1931 and 1932 the station was rebuilt again in preparation for transferring the Uxbridge branch service from the District line to the Piccadilly line. The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European geometric style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass.