High Street Kensington tube station

High Street Kensington
Entrance is through Kensington Arcade
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]
Key dates
1 October 1868	Opened
25 November 1963	Goods yard closed[6]
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°30′03″N 0°11′33″W / 51.5008°N 0.1925°W / 51.5008; -0.1925
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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.

Station layout[edit]

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.

Services[edit]

The typical off-peak service from this station is:

• 12 tph (trains per hour) to Edgware Road via Paddington (6 tph District line, 6 tph Circle line)
• 6 tph to Wimbledon via Earl's Court (District line)
• 6 tph anticlockwise on the Circle line via Victoria and Embankment to Hammersmith

Weekends and Special Events only:

• 3 tph to Kensington (Olympia) via Earl's Court (District line)

Connections[edit]

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]

Gallery[edit]

• 
  The station platforms in 1892
• 
  High Street Kensington Roundel
• 
  Entrance from Kensington Arcade
• 
  A District line S7 Stock train standing at bay platform 3 for shuttle route to Olympia.
• 
  The Grade II listed telephone kiosk on platform 3

See also[edit]

• Cromwell Curve

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References[edit]

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Gloucester Road towards Hammersmith via Tower Hill		Circle line		Notting Hill Gate towards Edgware Road
Earl's Court towards Wimbledon		District line Edgware Road branch
Earl's Court towards Ealing Broadway or Kensington (Olympia)		District line		Terminus