Paddington station is the grand terminus for the Great Western Railway that Isambard Kingdom Brunel always intended.
其历史反映了整个19世纪，20世纪和21世纪的铁路。
- 1835年: 31 August, the Great Western Railway Act is passed, giving permission to build a railway between London and Bristol.
- 1838年: 4 June, a temporary station is opened in Paddington at Bishop’s Bridge Road.
- 1841年：6月30日，伟大的西式铁路伦敦到布里斯托尔的主线。
- 1842年：6月13日，维多利亚女王让她从帕丁顿到斯劳的第一次铁路旅程。
- 1854: 29 May, Paddington ‘New’ Station is fully opened 9 June: the Great Western Hotel (designed by Philip Hardwicke) at Paddington Station is opened.
- 1861: 1 October, Paddington Station is converted to mixed gauge.
- 1892：5月20日，最后一个宽阔的仪表快车火车从帕丁顿标记GWR宽仪的末端。
- 1913-1915：帕丁顿站被扩大了。
- 1922年: 11 November, the war memorial on platform 1 is unveiled to commemorate Great Western Railway employees killed during World War 1.
- 1930-1935：帕丁顿站进一步扩大并重新建模。
- 1965年：6月11日，最后一个普通定期的蒸汽火车出发，距离帕丁顿出发。
- 2009年: The electrification of the line between Paddington to Bristol and Swansea is announced.
- 2011年：7月14日，网络铁路亚搏彩票软件官网和运输部门宣布伟大的西部主线的5亿英镑长期改善计划。
Original plans abandoned
对于伟大的西式铁路（GWR）的伦敦终点，伊马·王国布鲁尔计划在帕丁顿举行的大楼，靠近大拱结运河和丽晶的运河。由于建设主要线路的成本飙升，GWR为上市指导，布鲁内尔不得不放弃他的原始计划。
使用主教的桥梁道拱门作为外观，提供临时站，并提供乘客设施。该站于1838年6月4日开业，以及已作为梅登黑头构建的新线。
随着到布里斯托尔的主要线路被开放，而GWR的参与其他公司的铁路加入主线的增加，临时终端延长。1850年，为了适应流量的增加，GWR同意建造由布鲁内尔设计的新永久站。
布鲁内尔的“新”站
Brunel深受展览1851年展览的设计和建设的影响，这可以在帕丁顿三跨屋顶的使用中使用锻铁和玻璃。
At the time, this was the largest train shed roof in the world with a main span (102’ 6”) and two smaller ones to the north (70’) and south (68’). These spans are crossed by two transepts, all overlooked by three oriel windows in the station building on today’s platform 1. The station decoration, including the iron tracery on the train shed screens, was provided by Matthew Digby-Wyatt, Brunel’s architect on the project.
Fox Henderson＆Company，作为车站的建造者签约。距离埃斯特波特露台建造的主站大楼包括办公室，新会议室，为GWR和皇家候诊室建造。伟大的西式酒店沿着Prafed Street建造，并于1854年与新的帕丁顿站联合开业。
Expansion in the 20th century
Brunel’s station was large enough to cope with the expansion of the Great Western Railway over the next 50 years. By the early 20th century new accommodation for increasing amounts of both traffic and employees was needed. On-going works from 1904 saw the footprint of Paddington Station increase, a more defined access area known as ‘The Lawn’ was created and more office space was created by extending the Company’s offices along Eastbourne Terrace.
Major changes included the building of ‘Span 4’ between 1913 and 1916 which increased the number of platforms at the station, and today covers platforms 9 to 16. It was designed by the GWR’s engineer, W Armstrong, with architectural features to match Brunel’s original roof as closely as possible.
车站建筑的进一步扩张in the 1930s, including a striking new ‘art deco’ office block on the west side of the station, which also remodelled passenger facilities in ‘The Lawn’.
Updating for the 21st century
在20世纪90年代，帕丁顿站经过广泛翻新，玻璃在布鲁内尔原装屋顶取代了聚碳酸酯玻璃板，恢复Digby-Wyatt的装饰追踪和对草坪的显着改进。提出“跨度4”以适应交叉靶设施的建议是有争议的。
Between 2009 and 2010 the Edwardian roof was instead restored by Network Rail and Crossrail facilities are now housed underneath Eastbourne Terrace.
Did you know?
在1835年的伟大西式铁路法案中，允许建造铁路，伟大的西方铁路的原始终点将与伦敦和伯明翰铁路在尤斯通的终结。