London is the capital of Britain, and has something to offer everyone - majestic stately houses, tranquil green parks and a zoo, engrossing museums and art galleries and bustling shopping centres with all the major stores, specialist shops and markets.The Royal Family have their main residence in London, at Buckingham Palace, but there are many other interesting houses to visit within London with Royal connections - Hampton Court Palace, The Tower of London, and Regents Park, an ancient Royal hunting park.
The Tower of London has a whole day’s worth of things to see just in itself - there are the White, Bloody and Martin Towers, where prisoners were held and often tortured, there are the Crown Jewels, displayed in a specially built jewel house, and don’t forget the Ravens, without whom the White Tower would supposedly fall, and a great disaster befall the Kingdom.
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 Western Avenue (A40) between residential Ealing and industrial Park Royal.
The station was built for the 1932 extension of Piccadilly Line services over the District Line tracks to South Harrow. It opened in July 1931 and replaced an earlier station, Park Royal & Twyford Abbey, located a short distance to the north which closed at the same time.
First opened as a temporary timber structure, the current station building was designed by Charles Holden in the Art Deco/Streamline Moderne style as 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.
Just to the north of the station, the Piccadilly Line crosses over the Central Line tracks heading west towards nearby Hanger Lane. As part of the on-going development of the First Central Business Park on the Guinness Brewery site, a new station will be constructed on the Central Line to the east of crossing point. It is possible that this station will be called First Central or Park Royal - First Central although it will not be physically linked to Park Royal station. The timing of the construction of the new station is not known.
