Information on London Paddington Station

London Paddington station, also known as London Paddington and Paddington is a major National Rail and London Underground station complex in the Paddington area of west London.

A statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel sits in the middle of the station concourse also known as “The Lawn” at Paddington.  Another statue shares the concourse with the great man, namely Paddington Bear, complete with hat and sitting on a suit case.
Standing on platform 1 is a bronze memorial, depicting a soldier reading a letter which was sculpted by Charles Sargeant Jagger and was unveiled  by Viscount Churchill on Armistice Day 1922 as a memorial to the employees of the GWR who died during the First World War.




Paddington station has served as the London terminus of the Great Western Railway since 1854, and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with additional features by Matthew Digby Wyatt. The site was also the original western terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground railway, with the first Underground trains serving the terminus in 1863.

The Paddington station complex is located in, alongside and under a long thin city block bounded across the front by Praed Street and to the rear by Bishops Bridge Road, which crosses the throat of the main line station via Bishops Bridge. Parallel to the west side of the station is Eastbourne Terrace, the east side constrained by the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal.
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ust outside the station on Praed Street is the Great Western Hotel built in 1851-1854, the work of architect Philip Charles Hardwick, son of Philip Hardwick who also designed the Euston Arch.

Like most stations, Paddington has been altered over the years and today has 14 terminal platforms, numbered 1 to 14 from west to east, with platforms 1 to 8 located beneath the original three spans of Brunel’s 1854 train shed, platforms 9 to 12 are located below the later fourth span, platforms 13 and 14 stand within the Metropolitan Railway’s old Bishops Bridge station and immediately alongside are two through platforms numbered 15 and 16, which are used by the Hammersmith & City Line of the London Underground Network.
Platforms 6 and 7 are dedicated to the Heathrow Express trains, platforms 13 and 14 can only be used by the 2 or 3 car Turbo trains which are used on local services.



Paddington London Underground station is served by several lines: the Hammersmith & City Line, District Line, Circle Line and Bakerloo Line.
A new Crossrail station will be built under London Paddington between 2009 and 2015, serving both as a connection to national Rail services and London Underground services, with services expected to start on 2017.

• Long distance trains to Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Exeter and Penzance in the West Country.
  
• Newport, Cardiff and Swansea in South Wales.

• Commuter services to: West London and Thames Valley

• Non stop service to London Heathrow Airport.

• Stopping service to London Heathrow Airport (most intermediate stations)
  

• Services to Birmingham Snow Hill when London Marylebone is inaccessible due to engineering work or other reasons,
  
• One daily service, London bound only.

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