Lillie Bridge Depot

Lillie Bridge Depot is a historic traction maintenance depot on the London Underground Piccadilly and District lines, between the West Brompton and West Kensington tube stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and connected to the Piccadilly line service in nearby Earl's Court tube station.

The Depot arose as an outcome of disagreements between the plethora of railway companies that proliferated in London in the second half of the 19th-century. One of the companies, the Metropolitan District Railway Company, found itself competing for maintenance provision for its rolling stock in 1868 and decided to establish its own yard on a vacant plot by the West London Extension Joint Railway in West Brompton, in the vicinity of the Lillie Bridge (Fulham). It opened in 1872. After further mergers and acquisitions around the turn of the 20th-century, Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway became a key player in its development.

Despite widespread opposition, the Depot is scheduled to be de-commissioned by 2019 by Transport for London, as part of the controversial 'Earl's Court' regeneration scheme. Part of the Depot is already demolished, such as its entrance and shed in Lillie Road.

Tube map 1908-2 showing the variety of railway companies

Aerial view of Lillie Bridge Depot in 1928

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