Gunnersbury is a station with a glorious past, once served by five different railway companies, and a spectacular unrealised future on a 1919 predecessor of Crossrail. It is also the only station on the London Underground to have been struck by a tornado! 

Once home to the Rothschild family, part of nearby Gunnersbury Park is now the Kensington Cemetery, including a memorial to the 1940 massacre of Polish soldiers by the Soviet Union at Katyn.

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Paul has created two maps showing the route of the "Crossrail 1919" proposal for an east-west railway which would have run through Gunnersbury.

1920s Version - Showing the route on the Underground network as it would have been around the time of completion

2022 Version - Showing the route on the Underground network with the Victoria, Jubilee, and Elizabeth lines and DLR added

A full list of references for all sources used for this episode is available here