West Kensington tube station

London Underground station

West Kensington

Location of West Kensington in Greater London

LocationWest KensingtonLocal authorityLondon Borough of Hammersmith and FulhamManaged byLondon UndergroundStation codeWEK^[1]Number of platforms2Fare zone2London Underground annual entry and exit2018

4.51 million^[2]2019

4.87 million^[3]2020

2.10 million^[4]2021

2.03 million^[5]2022

3.61 million^[6]Key dates9 September 1874Opened (DR)5 May 1878Started "Super Outer Circle" (Midland)30 September 1880Ended "Super Outer Circle"14 July 1965Goods yard closed^[7]Other informationExternal links

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Coordinates51°29′27″N 0°12′23″W / 51.4908°N 0.2063°W / 51.4908; -0.2063

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West Kensington is a London Underground District line station in West Kensington. It is located on North End Road (B317) close to its junction with West Cromwell Road/Talgarth Road (A4).

The station is between Earl's Court and Barons Court and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station is situated in a cutting with the ticket office at street level.

History

The station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on 9 September 1874 as 'North End (Fulham)'^[8]^[9] when it opened its extension from Earl's Court to Hammersmith. At that time the next station west was Hammersmith - Barons Court did not open until 1905. It was renamed West Kensington in 1877. Despite its name, the station is located in Hammersmith and Fulham.

On 5 May 1878, The Midland Railway began running a circuitous service known as the "Super Outer Circle" from St Pancras to Earl's Court via Cricklewood and South Acton. It operated over a now disused connection between the NLR and the London and South Western Railway's branch to Richmond (now part of the District line). The service was not a success and was ended on 30 September 1880.

The entrance building was rebuilt in 1927. The design, by Charles Holden, uses similar materials and finishes to those Holden used for the Northern line's Morden extension opened in 1926.

In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at West Kensington 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.^[10] Earl's Court and Hammersmith stations which have step-free access are respectively one stop to the east and two stops to the west. £5.05 million was spent on West Kensington before the project was halted.^[11]

Services

The off-peak service pattern is:

6 trains per hour to Ealing Broadway
6 tph to Richmond
12 tph to Upminster.

Connections

London Buses Routes 28, 306 and Night Route N28 serve the station.

References

^ "Station Codes" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
^ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (591). London Underground Railway Society: 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.
^ Forgotten Stations of Greater London
^ Chronology of London Railways by H.V.Borley
^ "Disability and Deaf Equality Scheme (DES) 2009-2012". TfL. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
^ "TfL wastes £64million abandoning disabled access plans on the Tube". Evening Standard. 21 April 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to West Kensington tube station.

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Booking hall, 1927
- Booking hall, 1928
- Westbound platform, 1972.
Tube Professional's Rumour Network - Lillie Bridge depot

Preceding station		Following station
Barons Court towards Ealing Broadway or Richmond	District line	Earl's Court towards Upminster or High Street Kensington
Former service
Hammersmith towards St Pancras	Midland Railway (1878–1880)	Earl's Court Terminus

District line

Stations

Richmond branch	Gunnersbury Kew Gardens Richmond
Ealing branch	Chiswick Park Acton Town Ealing Common Ealing Broadway
Wimbledon branch	West Brompton Fulham Broadway Parsons Green Putney Bridge East Putney Southfields Wimbledon Park Wimbledon
Edgware Road branch	High Street Kensington Notting Hill Gate Bayswater Paddington Edgware Road
Olympia branch	Kensington (Olympia)

Rolling stock

S7 Stock

History

Former stations	Alperton Benfleet Boston Manor Castle Hill & Ealing Dene Chalkwell Deptford Road East Horndon Eastcote Hanwell Hayes Hillingdon Hounslow Central Hounslow East Hounslow Town Hounslow West Ickenham Laindon Langley Leigh-on-Sea Mark Lane New Cross Gate North Ealing Northfields Northfields & Little Ealing Osterley Osterley & Spring Grove Park Royal Park Royal & Twyford Abbey Pitsea Rayners Lane Rotherhithe Ruislip Ruislip Manor Shadwell Shoeburyness Slough South Acton South Ealing South Harrow Southall Southend Central Southend East St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) Sudbury Town Sudbury Hill Thorpe Bay Uxbridge Wapping Westcliff West Drayton Windsor
Wimbledon & Sutton Railway	Cannon Hill Cheam Collingwood Road Elm Farm Elm Grove Merton Park Morden Sutton Sutton Common
Former stock	C69 & C77 D78 A Stock B Stock C Stock D Stock E Stock F Stock G Stock H Stock K Stock L Stock O/P/CO/CP Stock Q Stock R Stock