New Opening Hours For Chiswick's Tube Ticket Offices


Unions claim cuts will turn the underground into a "criminal paradise"

New ticket office opening hours are to come into effect from Sunday 6th February despite the ongoing row between Tube bosses and workers over job cuts.

The reduction in hours will affect Turnham Green, Chiswick Park and Stamford Brook stations amongst quite a number of others locally.

London Underground say staff will be deployed to areas of stations where passengers "most value their help and reassurance" and insist the changes are needed to "take into account the success of the Oyster card".

Tube unions claimed that the reduction in hours that ticket offices are manned will turn the underground into a "criminal paradise".

The table below shows details research undertaken by Liberal Democrats into how ticket office closures will affect local tube stations in Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Hounslow.

Borough Station
Hours lost Mon - Fri per day
Hours lost Weekends
Total Hours lost per week
Total hours lost per borough per week
Ealing Acton Town
3 hours
11 hours 45 mins
26 hours 15 mins
 
Chiswick Park
10 hours 15 mins
16 hours 30 mins
67 hours 45 mins
 
Ealing Common
10 hours 30 mins
18 hours
70 hours 30 mins
 
North Acton
6 hours 30 mins
8 hours
40 hours 30 mins
 
North Ealing
30 mins
0 (closed)
2 hours 30 mins
 
Northfields
11 hours 30 mins
19 hours 15 mins
76 hours 45 mins
 
South Ealing
9 hours 30 mins
17 hours 30 mins
65 hours
 
West Acton
4 hours
9 hours
29 hours
 
       
512 hours 30 mins
Hammersmith and Fulham Barons Court
3 hours 45 mins
13 hours
31 hours 45 mins
 
East Acton
8 hours 45 mins
11 hours 45 mins
55 hours 30 mins
 
Fulham Broadway
3 hours
7 hours
19 hours
 
Goldhawk Road
1 hour 30 mins
3 hours 30 mins
42 hours 30 mins
 
Hammersmith
9 hours 30 mins
21 hours 30 mins
69 hours
 
Parsons Green
6 hours 15 mins
17 hours
48 hours 15 mins
 
Putney Bridge
7 hours 45 mins
7 hours 30 mins
46 hours 15 mins
 
Ravenscourt
10 hours 45 mins
16 hours 30 mins
70 hours 15 mins
 
Shepherd's Bush
1 hour 15 mins
6 hours 15 mins
12 hours 30 mins
 
Shepherd's Bush Market
10 hours
8 hours 45 mins
58 hours 45 mins
 
       
539 hours
Hounslow Osterley
7 hours 15 mins
12 hours
48 hours 15 mins
 
Stamford Brook
9 hours 15 mins
20 hours 30 mins
66 hours 45 mins
 
Turnham Green
3 hours 30 mins
9 hours 45 mins
27 hours 15 mins
 
       
218 hours

February 22, 2011