West Kensington tube station

West Kensington is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 at the intersection of West Cromwell Road and North End Road. In the year 2011 there were 4.64 million passengers these from the District Line station. Below the station, the tracks are the Piccadilly Line, which runs from the tunnel portal east of Barons Court to South Kensington under the District Line.

Was opened the station on September 9, 1874 by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR ), a predecessor company of District Line, as part of the extension of Earl 's Court to Hammersmith. In the beginning was the North End station (Fulham ), on March 1, 1877, it received its present name. The current station building was built in 1927 and was designed by Charles Holden.

Just east of the station is a junction for Lillie Bridge Depot. This was erected in 1871 by the MDR to stop trains there. After the electrification of the District Line in 1905 a new depot at Ealing Common arose. The depot Lillie Bridge then served from 1906 to 1932 as a parking hall for trains on the Piccadilly Line. Since then, this maintenance work is carried out. Between the depot and station lies the Ashfield House. This is named after Lord Ashfield, who had been chairman of the Underground Group and the London Passenger Transport Board, both predecessors of Transport for London.