Kensington (Olympia) station

Kensington ( Olympia) station is a west of the center of London, who is also the terminus of a branch line of the London Underground. The facility is located in Travelcard Zone 2, on the West London Line, which travels around the city center. Since the track exactly the boundary between two districts follows is the eastern platform in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the western London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. In the year 2011 there were 1.74 million subway passengers the station, added 1.834 million passengers by rail.

London Overground operates between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction ( during rush hour over North London Line to Stratford ), the Company Southern operates trains from Milton Keynes to Croydon. Kensington ( Olympia) is the terminus of a short shuttle train connection via the District Line to Earl's Court to High Street Kensington (currently only on week Andes and at trade events).

History

The West London Joint Railway opened the breakpoint Kensington south of the Hammersmith Road in May 1844 but closed it after half a year. On June 2, 1862, the passenger traffic was resumed, with the Addison Road station at its current location north of Hammersmith Road. From 1864 the Metropolitan Railway trains operated on the so-called Outer Circle (Paddington - Latimer Road - South Kensington - Paddington ), 1872 was followed by the Metropolitan District Railway. Trains the London and South Western Railway held HERE FROM 1869 until 1916.

On 2 October 1940, the Addison Road station had to be closed due to the war. As of December 20, 1946 reversed a subway shuttle train on the District line on the section to Earl 's Court, at the same time received its present name of the station. Likewise, for the first time a wrong Railroad commuter train during rush hour to Clapham Junction, the especially the staff of the nearby headquarters of the British Post Office Savings Bank ( Postal Office Savings Bank) took advantage.

From 1979 to 2008 held in Kensington ( Olympia) single daily express trains on the way from Birmingham to Brighton, now also trains to Eastbourne, Folkestone and Ramsgate. After a break of 54 years, rail transport between Willesden Junction and Clapham Common was resumed in 1994. From 1994 to 2007 Kensington ( Olympia) served as a backup station for Euro Star trains when they could not approach the actual terminus Waterloo International.

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