please empty your brain below

"Travelling west, twice as many trains go to Heathrow as head up towards Rayners Lane."

Sure doesn't feel like it sometimes - especially when running late for a flight!
That's because you can't take the T4 trains (unless you're going there, in which case it's even worse)
Actually the original Piccadilly Line was an amalgam of three different projects: the two you mention plus the "Deep Level" District which was to have run from Hammersmith to Mansion House. The tunnels and station layout at South Kensington were built to accommodate a junction between that line and a connection to the original terminus of the Piccadilly & Brompton Railway at Brompton Road, but in the event only the latter was built - electrification of the original District Line provided sufficient increase in capacity to make the DLD unnecessary.
The evidence is still there at South Kensington though.
You've missed a disused station - the original Northfields station (or Northfield & Little Ealing), which was on the opposite side of the road.










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