Notting Hill Gate tube station

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Notting Hill Gate
Notting Hill Gate underground station entrance
Location
Place Notting Hill
Local authority Kensington and Chelsea
Operations
Managed by London Underground
Platforms in use 4
Transport for London
Zone 1 and 2
Annual entry/exit 16.435 million †
History
Key dates Opened 1868 (MR)
Opened 1900 (CLR)
Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]

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.

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[edit] History

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.

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Media appearances

In the 1968 film 'Otley', one of the Central Line platforms at Notting Hill Gate (or a station pretending to be it) is where assassin and coach driver Johnston, played by Leonard Rossiter, blows himself up opening a booby-trapped suitcase full of money.

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