Ealing Common station was opened on 1 July 1879 by the District Railway (an underground railway in London) on its extension from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway; and from 1886 until 1 March 1910, the station was known as Ealing Common and West Acton after which it changed to its current name.
The Metropolitan District Railway (commonly known as the District Railway) was a passenger railway that served London from 1868 to 1933. Established in 1864 to complete the inner circle, an underground railway in London, the first part of the line opened using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. The Circle line is a London Underground line in a spiralling shape, running from Hammersmith in the west to Edgware Road and then looping around central London back to Edgware Road. 
