Notting Hill Gate tube station

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Notting Hill Gate
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
2005 annual usage	16.435 million †
2007 annual usage	16.895 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]
London Transport Portal

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.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Redevelopment 2 Gallery 3 Nearby places 4 Media appearances 5 External links

[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.

[edit] Gallery

District & Circle line platforms (September 2006)

Station signage

Roof over District & Circle line platforms (September 2006)

[edit] Nearby places

• Portobello Road, famous for Portobello Market
• Kensington Palace Gardens

[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.

[edit] External links

• London Transport Museum Photograhic Archive
  • Construction of Metropolitan Railway, 1867
  • Construction of Central London Railway platform, 1898
  • Central Line station, 1914
  • Central Line ticket hall, 1927
  • Metropolitan & District Line platforms, 1933
  • New ticket hall, 1959

• Notting Hill Gate tube station is at coordinates 51°30′32″N 0°11′49″W / 51.509, -0.197 (Notting Hill Gate tube station)Coordinates: 51°30′32″N 0°11′49″W / 51.509, -0.197 (Notting Hill Gate tube station)

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
High Street Kensington towards Victoria		Circle line		Bayswater towards King's Cross St. Pancras
High Street Kensington towards Wimbledon		District line		Bayswater towards Edgware Road
Holland Park towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip		Central line		Queensway towards Epping, Hainault or Woodford via Hainault