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Stops on several lines of the London Underground are also part of the station complex: the Hammersmith & City Line at a surface station on the north side of the station and parallel with it; the District Line and Circle Line in a cutting in front of the station and perpendicular to it, and the Bakerloo Line in deep-level tubes below the station.

1 History

The first station to open in the Paddington area was a temporary terminus for the Great Western Railway on the west side of Bishop's Bridge Road. The first GWR services from London to Taplow, near Maidenhead, ran from here in 1838. After the opening of the main station in 1854, this became the site of the goods yard. After years of dereliction, it is now being redeveloped as a mixed residential and business area called "Paddington Central".

The main Paddington station between Bishops Bridge Road and Praed Street was opened in 1854. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, later commemorated by a statue on the station concourse, though much of the architectural detailing was by his associate Matthew Digby Wyatt . The glazed roof is supported by wrought iron arches in three spans, respectively spanning 20.70 m (68 ft), 31.20 m (102 ft) and 21.30 m (70 ft), and 213 m (699 ft) long.

A very early construction by Brunel was recently discovered immediately to the north of the station; a cast iron bridge carrying the Bishop's Bridge Road over the railway lines was exposed during removal of the more recent brick outer covering, in the run-up to the bridge's complete replacement in late 2004.

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In 1868 the Metropolitan Railway opened a new branch to Kensington, with a station called Praed Street in a cutting across that street from the mainline station. This station is now Paddington station on the Circle and District Lines. It is linked to the mainline station and the Bakerloo line by a footway that passes underneath Praed Street and the Great Western Hotel.

The deep-level Baker Street and Waterloo Railway — now the Bakerloo Line — opened on December 1, 1913, with platforms underneath the mainline station.

It is proposed that Crossrail line 1 will serve Paddington station.