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London Paddington railway station

London Paddington is a main line and tube station complex on Praed Street, , London, which has been the main terminus for the Great Western Railway and successors since 1838.
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in the London Borough of Westminster, England, UK
  • Also known as: “London Paddington”, “London Paddington station”, “PAD”, “Paddington”, “Paddington (Bishop’s Road) station”, “Paddington Bear Station”, “Paddington Railway station”, and “Paddington station”
  • Address: Praed Street, London, W2 1HQ
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Mary’s Hospital and Statue of Paddington Bear.

Hospital
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St Mary's Hospital is a teaching hospital in , in the , London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which also operates , , and the . is situated 700 feet east of London Paddington railway station.

Work of art
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The at London Paddington station is a bronze sculpture by Marcus Cornish. Erected in 2000, it marks the association between Michael Bond's fictional bear and the station from which his name derives.

Memorial
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The is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait. It stands on platform 1 at London Paddington station, commemorating the 2,500 employees of the Great Western Railway who were killed in the conflict.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paddington-Maida Vale and Hallfield Estate.

Photo: Natesh Ramasamy, CC BY 2.0.
is a district of northwest central , around the vast Paddington Station of Paddington Bear fame. This inner London district is somewhat bereft of attractions but it does have a large range of budget and mid-priced accommodation.

Neighborhood
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The is one of several modernist housing projects in , , and was designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin.

Locality
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is an affluent residential district in North West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin.

London Paddington railway station

Latitude
51.5171° or 51° 31′ 2″ north
Longitude
-0.17732° or 0° 10′ 38″ west
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
Operator
Network Rail
Network
National Rail\;Elizabeth line
Abbreviation
“PAD”
IATA airport code
QQP
Open location code
9C3XGR8F+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7132105210
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6619476
Wiki­data ID
Q214788
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“London Paddington railway station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بادينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Լոնդոնի Փեդինգթոն կայարան”
  • Basque: “Paddington geltokia”
  • Belarusian: “Падынгтан”
  • Bengali: “প্যাডিংটন স্টেশন”
  • Bengali: “লন্ডন প্যাডিংটন স্টেশন”
  • Catalan: “Estació de London Paddington”
  • Catalan: “Estació de Paddington”
  • Chinese: “伦敦帕丁顿车站”
  • Chinese: “倫敦帕丁頓車站”
  • Chinese: “倫敦柏靈頓車站”
  • Chinese: “倫敦派丁頓車站”
  • Chinese: “帕丁頓站”
  • Chinese: “帕丁頓車站”
  • Chinese: “帕丁顿车站”
  • Chinese: “柏定頓站”
  • Chinese: “柏靈頓站”
  • Chinese: “柏靈頓車站”
  • Czech: “London Paddington”
  • Czech: “Paddington”
  • Danish: “London Paddington Station”
  • Danish: “London Paddington”
  • Danish: “Paddington Station”
  • Dutch: “Paddington station”
  • Dutch: “Station London Paddington”
  • Dutch: “Station Paddington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة بادينجتون”
  • Esperanto: “London Paddington”
  • Esperanto: “Paddington”
  • Finnish: “Paddingtonin asema”
  • Finnish: “Paddingtonin rautatieasema”
  • French: “gare de Londres Paddington”
  • French: “Gare de Londres Paddington”
  • French: “gare de Paddington”
  • French: “Gare de Paddington”
  • French: “London Paddington”
  • Gan Chinese: “八頂段站”
  • Gan Chinese: “八顶段站”
  • Georgian: “პადინგტონი”
  • German: “Bahnhof London Paddington”
  • German: “Bahnhof Paddington”
  • German: “Paddington railway station”
  • German: “Paddington Station”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Paddington Chhâ-chhàm”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת הרכבת התחתית פאדינגטון”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת הרכבת פדינגטון”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת פדינגטון”
  • Hindi: “लंदन पैडिंगटन स्टेशन”
  • Hungarian: “London Paddington pályaudvar”
  • Hungarian: “London Paddington”
  • Indonesian: “Stasiun London Paddington”
  • Italian: “stazione di Londra Paddington”
  • Italian: “Stazione di Londra Paddington”
  • Italian: “Stazione di Paddington”
  • Japanese: “パディントン駅”
  • Japanese: “ロンドン・パディントン駅”
  • Japanese: “ロンドンパディントン駅”
  • Korean: “런던 패딩턴역”
  • Korean: “패딩턴 역”
  • Lithuanian: “Padingtono geležinkelio stotis”
  • Lombard: “Stazion de Londra Paddington”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gare Paddington”
  • Marathi: “लंडन पॅडिंग्टन स्थानक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paddington stasjon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paddington stasjon”
  • Norwegian: “Paddington stasjon”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه پادینگتون”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه پدینگتون”
  • Polish: “Paddington station”
  • Polish: “Paddington”
  • Portuguese: “Estação de London Paddington”
  • Portuguese: “Estação de Paddington”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Paddington”
  • Portuguese: “London Paddington”
  • Romanian: “gara Londra Paddington”
  • Romanian: “Gara Londra Paddington”
  • Romanian: “gara Paddington”
  • Romanian: “Londra Paddington”
  • Russian: “Вокзал Паддингтон”
  • Russian: “Паддингтон (станция)”
  • Russian: “Паддингтон”
  • Russian: “Станция Паддингтон”
  • Slovak: “Paddington”
  • Slovenian: “London Paddington”
  • Slovenian: “Paddington Station”
  • Slovenian: “železniška postaja Paddington”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Paddington”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Paddington”
  • Spanish: “Paddington”
  • Swedish: “Paddington Station”
  • Turkish: “Londra Paddington Tren İstasyonu”
  • Turkish: “PAD”
  • Turkish: “Paddington (Bishop’s Road) Tren İstasyonu”
  • Turkish: “Paddington İstasyonu”
  • Turkish: “Paddington Tren İstasyonu”
  • Ukrainian: “Паддінгтон”
  • Urdu: “لندن پیڈنگٹن اسٹیشن”
  • Venetian: “stasion de Paddington”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf Paddington Llundain”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Paddington Llundain”
  • Yiddish: “לאנדאן פאדינגטאן סטאנציע”
  • Yue Chinese: “柏靈頓站”

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