Notting Hill Gate tube station
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Notting Hill Gate tube station is a London Underground station in Notting Hill. On the Central Line it is between Holland Park and Queensway stations and on the District Line and Circle Line it is between High Street Kensington and Bayswater stations. It is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 1 and Zone 2.
The sub-surface Circle and District Line platforms were opened on 1 October 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR) as part of its extension from Paddington to Gloucester Road. The Central Line platforms were opened on 30 July 1900 by the Central London Railway (CLR). Entrances to the two sets of platforms were originally via separate station buildings on opposite sides of the road and access to the CLR platforms was originally via lifts.
Redevelopment
The station entrance was rebuilt in the late 1950s and reopened on 1 March 1959 linking two 'Notting Hill Gate stations' on the Circle and District and Central lines, which had previously been accessed on either side of the street, with a shared sub-surface ticket hall with escalators down to the Central lines. The escalators were the first on the Underground to have metal side panels rather than wooden. The new entrance also acts as a pedestrian subway under the widened Notting Hill Gate.Nearby places
External links
- [London's Transport Museum Photograhic Archive]
- * [Construction of Metropolitan Railway, 1867]
- * [Construction of Central London Railway platform, 1898]
- * [Central Line ticket hall, 1927]
- * [Metropolitan & District Line platforms, 1933]
- * [New ticket hall, 1959]
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