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It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863 and now forms part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines ; and the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.
** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines
Westminster and Hammersmith & Fulham will merge their education services, including school admissions and transport by 2011.
In October 2010 Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea announced plans to merge all their services to create a " super-council ".
In 1919 an alternative route was published, building a tunnelled link to the disused London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ) tracks south of the L & SWR's Shepherd's Bush station then via Hammersmith ( Grove Road ) railway station and Turnham Green.
Although authorisation was granted in 1920, the connection was never realised, and the L & SWR tracks were used by the Piccadilly line when it was extended west of Hammersmith in 1932.
The line currently runs from in the City of London to in Buckinghamshire, with branch lines to, and, although before 1988 the Hammersmith & City line and the East London line were also branded as the Metropolitan line.
In 1988, the Hammersmith & City and East London lines were rebranded as separate lines.
It is now part of the " Sub-Surface Railways " group, managed along with the Circle, Hammersmith & City and District lines by London Underground Limited, formerly the Metronet consortium.
The route through central London is via St Pancras International for connections to Eurostar and the East Midlands ; Farringdon, for London Underground's Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines, and Crossrail from 2018 ; City Thameslink, which replaced the demolished Holborn Viaduct station and also has a southern entrance serving Ludgate Circus ; Blackfriars, for other rail services and the Underground District and Circle lines ; and London Bridge, for links to a number of other lines.
Most of the route and all of the stations are shared by the District, Hammersmith & City and / or Metropolitan lines.
The extension was announced in March 2009 and introduced on 13 December 2009, when the Circle was extended from Edgware Road to Hammersmith, sharing tracks with the Hammersmith & City line.
At the same time the day-time service interval on both the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines was increased from 8. 5 to 10 minutes, between them providing a train every five minutes between Hammersmith and Liverpool Street.
It now shares the tracks previously used only by the Hammersmith & City line, although movements were regularly made over this section to and from Hammersmith depot as the two lines already shared a common fleet of trains.
The extension was intended to reduce overcrowding on Hammersmith & City line trains between Hammersmith and Edgware Road by improving the frequency of trains on that section.
It was also designed to bring about improved reliability, not only for the Circle line but also for the District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, by slightly reducing the number of trains on the loop.
The latter two operated what are now the Metropolitan, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines of the London Underground.
On 6 October through services started from Hammersmith ( Hammersmith & City ) to New Cross ( SER ) and from ( MDR ) to New Cross ( LB & SCR ).

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The Hammersmith & City line is part of the London Underground, coloured salmon pink on the Tube map.
The original Hammersmith & City line opened on 13 June 1864, although Hammersmith station itself moved to a different location in 1868.
Since December 2009 the route between Hammersmith and Edgware Road has been served also by Circle line trains, meaning the Hammersmith & City line no longer has any stations unique to it.

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In December 2009 the Circle line extension extended the route from Edgware Road to Hammersmith.
Out of the 29 stations served, 10 have separate Hammersmith & City line platforms that are wholly or almost wholly below ground, all in cut-and-cover, while those at Paddington, Edgware Road, Farringdon, Barbican and Whitechapel are in cuttings, or under train-sheds but below street level.
Between Hammersmith and a point between Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park stations, the line is an elevated railway built on brick viaducts.

Hammersmith and currently
This site is currently being managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in collaboration with Groundwork UK.
The London postal district currently includes all of the City of London, Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster.
He currently lives in Hammersmith and supports Queens Park Rangers.
He is currently leading the efforts of a group of parents and teachers to set up a free primary school in Hammersmith, one of 102 free schools approved by the Department for Education on 13 July 2012.
He is currently the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Chelsea and Fulham having been elected during the 2010 general election for the newly-created constituency formed with the splitting of the former constituencies of Kensington and Chelsea as well as Hammersmith and Fulham.
Meanwhile a few miles away in the desert an old man is building something weird in his outhouse ... Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London had requested the musical be shown there and the project is currently trying to raise $ 15, 000 in order to cover the cost of the theatre and improve production.
The line currently runs for from Hammersmith via Butterley, Swanwick Junction and Riddings to Ironville, there are plans to extend the line to Pye Bridge in the future, especially to interchange with train services on the Erewash Valley Line.
He currently lives in Hammersmith, West London.
Projects currently under construction include the Thomas Clarkson Community College in Cambridgeshire, a student housing scheme in Hammersmith, a children ’ s hospital in Kurdistan, a boutique hotel in China and a residential tower in Hong Kong.
The regiment's museum is located at 87 Fulham High Street, Fulham, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham The items are currently in storage while the building is being refurbished, and the museum is expected to reopen in 2011.
The C Stock ( also designated as the C69 and C77 Stock ) is a type of train currently running on London Underground's Circle and Hammersmith & City lines as well as on the District Line between Edgware Road and Wimbledon.
As of 2012, he is currently starring in a production in the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith called ' Concrete Jungle '.

Hammersmith and ranks
* Hammersmith Apollo, London-4 manuals, 15 ranks ( Compton, 1932 )

Hammersmith and 7th
Furthermore, 60 % of working age residents hold a degree, the 7th highest of over 600 constituencies and above the likes of Cambridge, Cities of London and Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham.

Hammersmith and 10
Baker Street station was opened by the MR on 10 January 1863 ( these platforms are now served by the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines ).
At the time of the 1881 census the family was living at 10 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith.
* Vic Reeves Big Night Out " Brown Tour "-National tour, 10 Dates at the Hammersmith Odeon and a recorded performance in Newcastle, 1991
Darren David Powell ( born 10 March 1976 in Hammersmith ) is an English footballer.
The street was close to an above-ground section of the Metropolitan line ( now the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines ), and the train noise would have been " deafening " for the occupants of 10 Rillington Place.

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