West Kensington Underground Station

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West Kensington is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 at the intersection of West Cromwell Road and North End Road. In 2014, 5.14 million passengers used this station served by the District Line . Below the station are the tracks of the Piccadilly Line , which runs from the tunnel portal east of Barons Court to South Kensington under the District Line.

The station was opened on September 9, 1874 by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR), a predecessor of the District Line, as part of the extension from Earl's Court to Hammersmith . At the beginning the station was called North End (Fulham) , on March 1, 1877 it was given its current name. The current station building was built in 1927 and designed by Charles Holden .

A little east of the station there is a branch to the Lillie Bridge depot . This was built in 1871 by the MDR to park trains there. After the District Line was electrified in 1905, a new depot was built at Ealing Common . The Lillie Bridge depot was then used from 1906 to 1932 as a storage hall for trains on the Piccadilly Line. Maintenance work has been carried out here since then. Ashfield House is located between the depot and the station . This is named after Lord Ashfield , who was chairman of the Underground Group and the London Passenger Transport Board , both predecessors of Transport for London .

Web links

Commons : West Kensington (London Underground)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / content.tfl.gov.uk
  2. ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 21, 2013 .
  3. ^ West Kensington and Lillie Bridge. Tube Professional's Rumor Network, June 29, 2004, accessed January 18, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '25.9 "  N , 0 ° 12' 23.7"  W.