Ladbroke Grove Underground Station
Ladbroke Grove is an above-ground London Underground station in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 at the intersection of the street of the same name with the Westway , a multi-lane expressway. Trains on the Hammersmith & City Line and the Circle Line operate here . In 2014, 6.08 million passengers used the station.
The station was opened on June 13, 1864 under the name Notting Hill by the Hammersmith & City Railway . This company initially belonged to the Great Western Railway and came into the possession of the Metropolitan Railway in 1867 (predecessor of the Metropolitan Line ). The station was renamed several times, from 1880 it was called Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove , from 1919 Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington) . In 1938 the addition to brackets was omitted. In 1990 the Hammersmith branch of the Metropolitan Line became operationally independent under the name Hammersmith & City Line. Circle Line trains have also stopped here since December 13, 2009.
In the vicinity of Ladbroke Grove station is Portobello Road with a market popular with tourists. Shopkeepers and market vendors are seeking to change the station name to Portobello Road .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hammersmith & City Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ^ Circle Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Let's call it Portobello Road Tube . Evening Standard , June 30, 2006
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '2.6 " N , 0 ° 12' 38.2" W.