History On 1 February 1872 the
London and North Western Railway (L&NWR) began a railway service between and the
District Railway station at
Mansion House via the
North London Railway, , the
West London Railway and
Earl's Court, replacing a service that had run along much of the same route to
London Victoria. This service became known as the 'outer circle' and was worked with L&NWR locomotives and carriages and there was a train every thirty minutes. When the District electrified in 1905, it built electric locomotives to haul the carriages between Earl's Court and Mansion House. The service appears on the 1908 'London Underground' map between Earl's Court and Uxbridge Road as a District Railway service. The service ceased to run east of Earl's Court from 1 January 1909. The L&NWR electrified the West London Railway and an electric service between Willesden Junction and Earl's Court on started 1 May 1914. This was initially with
electric multiple units provided by the District Railway until 24 November 1914 when
LNWR electric units took over. Passenger services on the West London Railway ended on 19 October 1940 following bomb damage to the line Uxbridge Road station closed with the line in 1940 and opened on the same site in 2008. The line is currently served by the
District line between Mansion House and Kensington (Olympia) and then the
London Overground to Haggerston.
List of stations The following stations, listed anti-clockwise, were served by the Outer Circle: ==Super Outer Circle==