West Ruislip
West Ruislip  
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 West Ruislip
Location of West Ruislip in Greater London
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| Location | Ruislip |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hillingdon |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owner | Transport for London |
| Station code | WRU |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 6 |
| OSI |
Ickenham
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| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2009 |
 1.496 million |
| 2012 |
 1.61 million |
| 2013 |
1.60 million |
| 2014 |
1.56 million |
| 2015 |
1.56 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
0.283 million |
| 2012–13 |
0.344 million |
| 2013–14 |
0.312 million |
| 2014–15 |
0.416 million |
| 2015–16 |
0.191 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1906 | Opened (GWR/GCR) |
| 1948 | Opened (Central line) |
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| WGS84 | 51°34′11″N 0°26′14″W / 51.5696°N 0.4373°WCoordinates: 51°34′11″N 0°26′14″W / 51.5696°N 0.4373°W |
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West Ruislip is a station located on Ickenham Road between Ickenham and Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon in Greater London formerly in Middlesex; it is served by both London Underground (LU) and National Rail trains on independent platforms. It is the western terminus of the LU Central line's West Ruislip branch, with Ruislip Gardens as the next Underground station towards central London. The Central line and Chiltern Railways platforms and ticket office hall are managed by LU. The closest station on the Metropolitan line and Piccadilly line is Ickenham which is 1.1 km from West Ruislip Station.
The station was opened on 2 April 1906 as Ruislip & Ickenham by the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway (GW&GCJR). The GW&GCJR connected London and the Midlands via High Wycombe and provided an alternative route to the Great Central Railway's (GCR's) main line through Aylesbury, Harrow and Wembley which shared its route with the Metropolitan Railway.
Prior to the Second World War plans had been made for a number of extensions to the Central line. The London Passenger Transport Board's (LPTB's) 1935-40 New Works programme included the extension of the Central line to run alongside the Great Western Railway (GWR) tracks from North Acton to South Ruislip and the GW&GCJR tracks from there as far as Denham; the post-war introduction of the Metropolitan Green Belt caused the extension to be cut back to West Ruislip. Had the Central line extension been completed as planned, the next station would have been Harefield Road. Preparatory work on this section had started just before the war and a section of trackbed constructed for the extension can be seen to the west of the road overbridge, beyond the buffer stops of the Central line tracks alongside the National Rail line.
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