High Street Kensington is a London Underground station on Kensington High Street, in Kensington. The station is on the Circle line between Gloucester Road and Notting Hill Gate, and the District line between Earl's Court and Notting Hill Gate and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Kensington Arcade forms the entrance to the station.
High Street Kensington | |
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High Street Kensington Location of High Street Kensington in Central London | |
Location | Kensington High Street |
Local authority | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 4 |
Fare zone | 1 |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2018 | 11.50 million[1] |
2019 | 11.69 million[2] |
2020 | 3.57 million[3] |
2021 | 4.45 million[4] |
2022 | 8.54 million[5] |
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1 October 1868 | Opened |
25 November 1963 | Goods yard closed[6] |
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Coordinates | 51°30′03″N 0°11′33″W / 51.5008°N 0.1925°W |
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The station itself has four platforms─two through platforms and two bay platforms. Platform 1 is used for anticlockwise Circle line and westbound District line trains towards Gloucester Road and Earl's Court respectively. Platform 2 is for clockwise Circle line and eastbound District line trains towards Edgware Road. Platforms 3 and 4 are used for terminating District line trains from Earl's Court. Platform 3 is usually used for the Olympia service, which runs weekends and for special events, and platform 4 is usually only used at the start and end of the day. There used to be a waiting room between Platform 2 and 3 for customer use, but this was turned into a staff room for drivers shortly before the Circle line extension to Hammersmith was implemented in December 2009.
On Platform 3, westbound, there is one of the few surviving K8 telephone kiosks. Now used for the TfL internal system, the kiosk is Grade II listed.[7]
Just south of the station is the junction where the Circle and District lines diverge.
The typical off-peak service from this station is:
Weekends and Special Events only:
London Buses routes 9, 23, 27, 28, 49, 52, 70, 328, 452 and C1, night routes N9, N27, N28 and N31 and Green Line route 702 serve the station.[8][9]
Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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Gloucester Road towards Hammersmith via Tower Hill
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Circle line | Notting Hill Gate towards Edgware Road
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Earl's Court towards Wimbledon
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District line Edgware Road branch
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Earl's Court towards Ealing Broadway or Kensington (Olympia)
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District line | Terminus |