Ealing Broadway Station

Just your average London train station with a few small places for train station quality refreshments on the platform.

Although facilities here are basic travellers can change here between the main line and ghetto Central and District lines thereby avoiding central London.

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Way out west, where one of the District Line branches finally meets up with the one of the Central Line branches is Ealing Broadway. The station is also a stop on the Great Western Line that runs out to Reading, so if you’re looking to avoid Paddington for some reason (afraid of bears, perhaps?) then you might consider taking the Tube here and catching one of the slow trains.
There is no step-​free access from street level to the platforms. Depending on which platforms you might be switching between, it’s possible you might have a step-​free experience. Signs from one line to another are clearly marked and there are ticket barricades with Oyster readers at the exits. If you are switching platforms from the trains to the Tube, don’t forget to hit one of those readers because there isn’t a barricade between those.
On the platforms, you’ll find a Costa kiosk as well as a West Cornwall Pasty. Up in the ticketing level is a WH Smith.
The station is in Travelcard Zone 3. On the Central Line, the next stop is West Acton and on the District, it’s Ealing Common.

Ealing Broadway is one of West London’s major transport hubs, providing an interchange between the local services out of Paddington on the Great Western main line, and the terminus of the District and Central lines. The station (main line and underground) handles over 20 million passengers a year.
History
The first line to reach Ealing was on the original stretch of the Great Western Railway (GWR) from London to Maidenhead, in April 1838. The station itself was not ready and opened in December of that year. Known then simply as ‘Ealing’, it was in a relatively rural location and provided with handsome brick and stone buildings on the London-​bound platform.
The Metropolitan District Railway (MDR — today’s District Line) came next, opening with a branch from that company’s line to Richmond, in 1879. The MDR built a separate station to the north of the main line platforms, originally in brick, and rebuilt before World War I in the ‘Banker’s Classical’ style. Around this time the GWR station was also rebuilt with a long façade in red brick with French-​style château mansard roofs.
Last came the Central Line, extended from Wood Green in 1920 as the Central London Railway. The line was built by the GWR and the trains terminated in platforms built between the GWR and MDR stations.
The former GWR station was rebuilt in its present rather hideous form in the 1970s, with the ticket office and shops beneath a very grey concrete office block. At the same time, the separate District Line ticket office was closed, although its handsome classical façade in survives immediately to the north of the main station, occupied by shops.
Facilities
The station now has 9 platforms, with 1 – 4 serving the main lines to Paddington, 5 – 6 the central Line and 7 – 9 the District Line, which still feels like a separate station (and, with its overall roof, much the most attractive part).
The station has a ticket office and ticket machines, café, newsagent, cash-​point and toilets but no cycle storage and, because of a number of flights of steps, very poor wheelchair access.
Services
The main line services generally call at platforms 3 and 4, and include the Heathrow Connect stopping services to Heathrow T4; local services to Slough, Reading, Oxford, Greenford. The Greenford and Heathrow Connect services are half-​hourly off-​peak, and with 4 trains an hour to Reading, this provides 8 services an hour in each direction.
District Line trains operate every 10 minutes and Central Line trains every 6 – 7 minutes off peak.

Je né sais pas pourquoi j’aime cette gare !!! L’architecture intérieure peut-​être, un melting pot qui me plait, ce brouhaha continuel la vie qu’il y a dans cet endroit :). Le métro presque dans la gare, ce qui simplifie beaucoup de choses! La gare dessert l’Ouest de l’Angleterre et la Pays de Galles
II do not know why I like this station!!! The interior design maybe, a melting pot which pleases me, this continual hubbub the life which there is in this place:). The subway almost in the station, what simplifies many things! The station serves the West of England and Wales.
Sorry for my english :(

Ealing Broadway station is a very useful transport hub in West London where the Central and District Tube lines meet the First Great Western local train service between Paddington and Reading and also the Heathrow Connect service. Outside in the street and on Haven Green are numerous local bus stops.
However the station itself is not the sort of place where you’d want to linger longer than possible! The mainline platforms are bleak and windswept with limited shelter. The Central Line platforms are little better but there’s usually a train waiting in which you can sit. District Line platforms 8 & 9 are the best, they have an overall roof at one end although platform 7 is not so good.
The station has only a small branch of WH Smith but there are other shops very close by outside. There’s a small tea bar by the Central Line platforms.