High Street Kensington tube station

LocationKensington High StreetLocal authorityRoyal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaManaged byLondon UndergroundNumber of platforms4Fare zone1London Underground annual entry and exit2018 11.50 million^[1]2019 11.69 million^[2]2020 3.57 million^[3]2021 4.45 million^[4]2022 8.54 million^[5]Key dates1 October 1868Opened25 November 1963Goods yard closed^[6]Other informationExternal links

• TfL station info page

Coordinates51°30′03″N 0°11′33″W / 51.5008°N 0.1925°W / 51.5008; -0.1925 London transport portal

High Street Kensington is a London Underground station on Kensington High Street, in Kensington. The station is on the Circle line between Gloucester Road and Notting Hill Gate, and the District line between Earl's Court and Notting Hill Gate and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Kensington Arcade forms the entrance to the station.

Station layout

The station itself has four platforms─two through platforms and two bay platforms. Platform 1 is used for anticlockwise Circle line and westbound District line trains towards Gloucester Road and Earl's Court respectively. Platform 2 is for clockwise Circle line and eastbound District line trains towards Edgware Road. Platforms 3 and 4 are used for terminating District line trains from Earl's Court. Platform 3 is usually used for the Olympia service, which runs weekends and for special events, and platform 4 is usually only used at the start and end of the day. There used to be a waiting room between Platform 2 and 3 for customer use, but this was turned into a staff room for drivers shortly before the Circle line extension to Hammersmith was implemented in December 2009.

On Platform 3, westbound, there is one of the few surviving K8 telephone kiosks. Now used for the TfL internal system, the kiosk is Grade II listed.^[7]

Just south of the station is the junction where the Circle and District lines diverge.

Services

The typical off-peak service from this station is:

• 12 tph (trains per hour) to Edgware Road via Paddington (6 tph District line, 6 tph Circle line)
• 6 tph to Wimbledon via Earl's Court (District line)
• 6 tph anticlockwise on the Circle line via Victoria and Embankment to Hammersmith

Weekends and Special Events only:

• 3 tph to Kensington (Olympia) via Earl's Court (District line)

Connections

London Buses routes 9, 23, 27, 28, 49, 52, 70, 328, 452 and C1, night routes N9, N27, N28 and N31 and Green Line route 702 serve the station.^[8][9]

Gallery

• 
  The station platforms in 1892
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  High Street Kensington Roundel
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  Entrance from Kensington Arcade
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  A District line S7 Stock train standing at bay platform 3 for shuttle route to Olympia.
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  The Grade II listed telephone kiosk on platform 3

See also

• Cromwell Curve

StationsRolling stockHistory

Former railways	Metropolitan Railway District Railway Metropolitan line (1933–88) History of the District line
Former rolling stock	Metropolitan Railway steam locomotives District Railway steam locomotives Metropolitan Railway electric multiple units District Railway electric multiple units Circle Stock O and P Stock C69 and C77 Stock
Associated circle lines	Middle Circle Outer Circle Super Outer Circle

See also