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Kew Gardens station is a Grade II listed London Underground and National Rail station in Kew in south west London. It is managed by London Underground and is in Travelcard Zones 3 and 4. The station is served by both the District line on the London Underground and the North London Line on the London Overground, and is situated midway between and stations. Kew Gardens is the nearest station to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (located about to the west) and The National Archives ( about to the north east) The main entrance to the station is located at the junction of Station Parade, Station Avenue and Station Approach about from Sandycombe Road (B353). The station can also be accessed from North Road, on the other side of the railway line; the two entrances are connected by a pedestrian subway. Kew Gardens Station Footbridge, also a Grade II-listed structure, is next to the station, on the southern side. ==History== The station was opened by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) on 1 January 1869, in an area of market gardens and orchards.〔The rural character of the area around the station is shown on the .〕 The station was located on a new L&SWR branch line to Richmond built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now ). The line ran through Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith via a now closed curve and Grove Road station (also now closed) in Hammersmith. Via a short connection from the North & South Western Junction Railway (N&SWJR) to Gunnersbury the line was also served by the North London Railway (NLR). Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran services from to via Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City line) tracks to Grove Road then on the L&SWR tracks through Kew Gardens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hammersmith & City Line, Dates )〕 On 1 June 1877, the District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened a short extension from its terminus at Hammersmith to connect to the L&SWR tracks east of station.〔 The DR then began running trains over the L&SWR tracks to Richmond. On 1 October 1877, the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan line) restarted the GWR's former service to Richmond via Grove Road station.〔 The DR's service between Richmond, Hammersmith and central London was more direct than the NLR's route via , the L&SWR's or the MR's routes via Grove Road station or the L&SWR's other route from Richmond via . From 1 January 1894, the GWR began sharing the MR's Richmond service and served Kew Gardens once again,〔 meaning that passengers from Kew Gardens could travel on the services of five operators. Following the electrification of the DR's own tracks north of in 1903, the DR funded the electrification of the tracks through Kew Gardens. The tracks on the Richmond branch were electrified on 1 August 1905.〔 Whilst DR services were operated with electric trains, the L&SWR, NLR, GWR and MR services continued to be steam hauled. MR services were withdrawn on 31 December 1906 and GWR services were withdrawn on 31 December 1910,〔 leaving operations at Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury to the DR (by then known as the District Railway), the NLR and L&SWR. By 1916, the L&SWR's route through Hammersmith was being out-competed by the District to such a degree that the L&SWR withdrew its service between Richmond and Addison Road on 3 June 1916, leaving the District as the sole operator over that route.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=District Line, History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kew Gardens station (London)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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