Ladbroke Grove tube station

LocationLadbroke GroveLocal authorityKensington and ChelseaManaged byLondon UndergroundNumber of platforms2Fare zone2London Underground annual entry and exit2018 5.34 million^[1]2019 6.13 million^[2]2020 2.84 million^[3]2021 2.65 million^[4]2022 5.10 million^[5]Railway companiesOriginal companyHammersmith and City RailwayPre-groupingHammersmith and City RailwayPost-groupingHammersmith and City RailwayKey dates13 June 1864Opened as Notting Hill1869Renamed Notting Hill (Ladbroke Road)1880Renamed Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove1 June 1919Renamed Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)1938Renamed Ladbroke Grove13 December 2009Circle line service introducedOther informationExternal links

• TfL station info page

Coordinates51°31′02″N 0°12′38″W / 51.5172°N 0.2106°W / 51.5172; -0.2106 London transport portal

Ladbroke Grove is a London Underground station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2 set in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

History

Originally opened by the Hammersmith and City Railway on 13 June 1864, the station was originally named Notting Hill. With the extension of that line from Paddington to Hammersmith it was renamed Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove in 1880 and Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington) on 1 June 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938. The renamings were efforts to avoid confusion with the opening of Notting Hill Gate tube station, which had occurred in 1868. The station is named after the street of the same name, where its main entrance is located.

The station is the nearest to Portobello Road Market and market traders and shopkeepers in the market have started a campaign to have the station renamed Portobello Road in an effort to strengthen recognition of the market's proximity.^[6] It is worth noting that the roundels at platform level do say "For Portobello Road" underneath the station name in smaller text, enabling passengers to alight if they are looking for the market.

In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Ladbroke Grove and five other stations, on the grounds that these are relatively quiet stations and some are already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.^[7] Ladbroke Grove is two stops away from Wood Lane which has step-free access. The project at Ladbroke Grove would have provided two new lifts to platform level and a new step-free entrance. £3.06 million was spent on Ladbroke Grove before the project was halted.^[8]

Gallery

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  View from the Westbound platform
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  Ticket Office
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  View from the Eastbound platform
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  Roundel

See also

• Planned Crossrail station

References

External links

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