Notting Hill Gate | |
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 Station entrance through a subway | |
  Notting Hill Gate Location of Notting Hill Gate in Central London | |
| Location | Notting Hill |
| Local authority | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owner | |
| Station code | NHG[2] |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 1 and2 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  5.68 million[3] |
| 2021 |  6.40 million[4] |
| 2022 | 11.69 million[5] |
| 2023 | 12.11 million[6] |
| 2024 | 12.83 million[7] |
| Key dates | |
| 1 October 1868 | Opened (MR) |
| 30 July 1900 | Opened (CLR) |
| 1 March 1959 | Combined Station Opened |
| Listed status | |
| Listing grade | II |
| Entry number | 1225688[1] |
| Added to list | 7 November 1984; 41 years ago (1984-11-07) |
| Other information | |
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| Coordinates | 51°30′32″N0°11′49″W / 51.509°N 0.197°W /51.509; -0.197 |
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Notting Hill Gate is aLondon Underground station nearNotting Hill. It is located on the street calledNotting Hill Gate. The station is served by three lines:Central,Circle andDistrict. On the Central line, the station is betweenHolland Park andQueensway stations. On the Circle line and theEdgware Road branch of the District line, it is betweenHigh Street Kensington andBayswater stations. The station is on the boundaries ofLondon fare zone 1 and2.
The sub-surface Circle and District line platforms were opened on 1 October 1868 by theMetropolitan Railway (MR) as part of its extension fromPaddington toGloucester Road. The Central line platforms were opened on 30 July 1900 by theCentral London Railway (CLR). Entrances to the two sets of platforms were originally via separate station buildings on opposite sides of the road; access to the CLR platforms was originally vialifts.
The station name Notting Hill Gate had potential for confusion with the MR station to the north in Ladbroke Grove which was known as "Notting Hill" when opened in 1864, and renamed "Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove" in 1880. This latter station eventually, in 1919, dropped its reference to Notting Hill, becoming "Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)" in 1919 and, simply, "Ladbroke Grove" in 1938 (seeLadbroke Grove Underground station).
On the Circle and District lines, Notting Hill Gate is acut and cover station still covered with a glass roof, despite many other similar stations having lost theirs.[8] The Circle and District line platforms have been a Grade IIlisted building since 7 November 1984.
The station was rebuilt in the late 1950s and reopened on 1 March 1959, now linking the two 'Notting Hill Gate stations' on the Circle and District and Central lines, which had previously been accessed on either side of the street, with a shared sub-surface ticket hall andescalators down to the deeper Central line, replacing the aged and now sealed-off lifts. The escalators were the first on the Underground to have metal side panels rather than wooden. The new entrance also acts as a pedestrian subway under the widened Notting Hill Gate. The mosaic columns at the southern entrance were created in 2006 by local public art organisationUrban Eye.
The station was refurbished from 2010 to 2011, with new ceramic tiling throughout the subway entrances, deep-level passageways and Central line tube platforms as well as a modified ticket hall layout.
During the refurbishment works an abandoned lift passageway from the original 1900 CLR station, closed to the public after Notting Hill Gate was last upgraded in 1959, was rediscovered and found to contain a series of original posters dating from the late 1950s. Images have been posted online.[9]
A scheme was developed by the architectsWeston Williamson to provide canopies over the entrances from the street,[10] but this has not been implemented.
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In the 1968 filmOtley, one of the Central line platforms at Notting Hill Gate (or a station pretending to be it) is where the assassin and coach driver Johnston, played byLeonard Rossiter, blows himself up opening abooby-trapped suitcase full of money.
The station and its staff featured prominently in the third episode of BBC Two documentary seriesThe Tube, which first aired on 5 March 2012.
The Central line westbound platform is located above the eastbound platform because when the CLR was built it did not want to tunnel under buildings, and the street above was not wide enough for the two platforms to be side by side.
London Buses day and night routes serve the station, as well asOxford Tube coaches.
| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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| Holland Park towardsEaling Broadway orWest Ruislip | Central line | Queensway | ||
| High Street Kensington towardsHammersmith via Tower Hill | Circle line | Bayswater towardsEdgware Road | ||
| High Street Kensington towardsWimbledon | District line Edgware Road branch | |||
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