High Street Kensington tube station

High Street Kensington is an underground, partially open at the top station of the London Underground in the urban district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 1 Kensington High Street. Here trains to the Circle Line and the District Line. In 2011, 11.99 million passengers used the station. Approximately 400 meters to the northeast is the Kensington Palace.

The station has four tracks. On the two eastern tracks the Circle Line and the District Line trains operating on the route Edgware Road - Wimbledon. The two western are truncated tracks and serve as the terminus of a commuter train on the District Line, which runs to Earl 's Court and at times to Kensington ( Olympia).

On 1 October 1868, the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line ) opened the station Kensington ( High Street ), part of the route Paddington - Gloucester Road. The Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line ) took on 3 July 1871, the connecting curve to Earl 's Court in operation. 1880, the station name in High Street Kensington has changed. Since 1949, the Circle Line is considered as a separate line, while the Metropolitan Line was withdrawn.

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