Park Royal tube station

Park Royal
Park Royal Location of Park Royal in Greater London
Location	Park Royal
Local authority	London Borough of Ealing
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
OSI	Hanger Lane
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	1.58 million
2013	1.64 million
2014	1.98 million
2015	2.02 million
Railway companies
Original company	District Railway
Key dates
6 July 1931	Station opened as Park Royal
4 July 1932	District line service replaced by Piccadilly line
1 March 1936	Renamed Park Royal (Hanger Hill)
1947	Renamed Park Royal
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1079328
Added to list	15 October 1987
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°31′37″N 0°17′03″W / 51.5269°N 0.2842°W / 51.5269; -0.2842Coordinates: 51°31′37″N 0°17′03″W / 51.5269°N 0.2842°W / 51.5269; -0.2842

Park Royal is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground. It is between North Ealing and Alperton and is in Travelcard Zone 3. It is situated on the south side of the east-west Western Avenue (A40), surrounded by residential Ealing and industrial Park Royal. There is a pedestrian subway under the A40 road near the station.

The station's platforms have a continuous significant gradient (sloping up from south to north).

The District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened the line through Park Royal on its new extension to South Harrow on 23 June 1903. A station, Park Royal & Twyford Abbey, was opened at that time a short distance to the north of the current station to serve the Royal Agricultural Society's recently opened Park Royal show grounds.

The current station was built for the extension of Piccadilly line services over the District line tracks to South Harrow. It opened on 6 July 1931 and replaced the earlier station which closed on the previous day.

First opened as a temporary timber structure, the current station building was designed by Welch & Lander in an Art Deco/Streamline Moderne style influenced by the Underground's principal architect Charles Holden. The station buildings are formed from a series of simple interconnecting geometric shapes. Plain red brick masses are accented with strong horizontal and vertical glazed elements. A large circular ticket hall with high level windows gives access to the platform stairs. The enclosures for these form cascades of glazed steps down to the platforms. The most prominent feature of the station building is the tall square tower adjacent to the ticket hall. This is adorned with the Underground roundel; and represents a visible locator for the station from some distance. The permanent structure was opened in 1936. Attached to the station building and across the small open space of Hanger Green are two curved three-storey retail and office buildings built in the same style as the station.