Turnham Green is a London Underground station in Chiswick of the London Borough of Hounslow, west London. The station is served by the District and Piccadilly lines although currently Piccadilly line trains normally stop at the station only at the beginning and end of the day, running through non-stop at other times. To the east, District line trains stop at and Piccadilly line trains stop at . To the west, District line trains run to either or and Piccadilly line trains stop at . The station is in both Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3. The station is located on Turnham Green Terrace (B491) on the eastern edge of Chiswick Common. It is about north of Chiswick High Road (A315), and as well as Central Chiswick the station serves the Bedford Park area. The actual Turnham Green park is much closer to Chiswick Park station. History The station is located close to the site of the Battle of Turnham Green (1642), during the First English Civil War. District line Turnham Green station was opened on 1 January 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) on a a new branch line to built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now ). The line ran through Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith via a now unused curve and initially the next station towards central London was Grove Road station in Hammersmith (also now closed). Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran services from to Richmond via the Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City line) tracks to Grove Road then on the L&SWR tracks through Turnham Green. On 1 June 1877, the District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened a short extension from its terminus at Hammersmith to connect to the L&SWR tracks east of station (which had opened in 1873). The DR then began running trains over the L&SWR tracks to Richmond. On 1 October 1877, the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan line) restarted the GWR's former service to Richmond via Grove Road station. On 5 May 1878 The Midland Railway began running a circuitous service known as the Super Outer Circle from to via and . It operated over a now disused connection between the North London Railway and the L&SWR Richmond branch. The service was not a success and was ended