Park Royal is a London Underground station. It is on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line, between Alperton and North Ealing stations. It is in London fare zone 3.

The station 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. Park Royal is within walking distance from Hanger Lane tube station on the Central line.

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

History

The District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened the line through Park Royal on its new extension to 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 . It opened on 6 July 1931 and replaced the earlier station which closed on the previous day.

Possible development

The Mayor's plans for the area include improvements to the station access. In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step free access by 2022, as part of a £200m investment to increase the number of accessible stations on the Tube.

The developers of the First Central business park at Park Royal were planning a new station between North Acton and Hanger Lane on the Central line. This would have served the business park and provide a walking distance interchange with Park Royal station. This is not being actively pursued. London Underground has said that the transport benefits of a Park Royal station on the Central line are not sufficiently high to justify the costs of construction.

Services

Park Royal station is on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line in London fare zone 3. It is between Alperton to the west and North Ealing to the east.

The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:

  • 6 tph to Cockfosters (Eastbound)
  • 3 tph to Rayners Lane (Westbound)
  • 3 tph to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane (Westbound)

The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is: