West Kensington | |
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 District line eastbound platform at the station | |
  West Kensington Location of West Kensington in Greater London | |
| Location | West Kensington |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | WEK[2] |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  2.10 million[3] |
| 2021 | 2.03 million[4] |
| 2022 |  3.61 million[5] |
| 2023 | 3.76 million[6] |
| 2024 | 3.99 million[7] |
| Key dates | |
| 9 September 1874 | Opened (DR) |
| 5 May 1878 | Started "Super Outer Circle" (Midland) |
| 30 September 1880 | Ended "Super Outer Circle" |
| 14 July 1965 | Goods yard closed[1] |
| Other information | |
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| Coordinates | 51°29′27″N0°12′23″W / 51.4908°N 0.2063°W /51.4908; -0.2063 |
 London transport portal | |
West Kensington is aLondon UndergroundDistrict line station inWest Kensington. It is located onNorth End Road (B317) close to its junction withWest Cromwell Road/Talgarth Road (A4).
The station is betweenEarl's Court andBarons Court and is inLondon fare zone 2.
The station is situated in a cutting with the ticket office at street level.
The station was opened by theDistrict Railway (DR, now the District line) on 9 September 1874 as 'North End (Fulham)'[8][9] when it opened its extension from Earl's Court toHammersmith. At that time the next station west was Hammersmith - Barons Court did not open until 1905.It was renamedWest Kensington in 1877. Despite its name, the station is located inHammersmith and Fulham.
On 5 May 1878, TheMidland Railway began running a circuitous service known as the"Super Outer Circle" fromSt Pancras to Earl's Court viaCricklewood andSouth Acton. It operated over a now disused connection between the NLR and theLondon and South Western Railway's branch toRichmond (now part of the District line). The service was not a success and was ended on 30 September 1880.
The entrance building was rebuilt in 1927. The design, byCharles Holden, uses similar materials and finishes to those Holden used for theNorthern line'sMorden extension opened in 1926.
In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at West Kensington and five other stations, on the grounds that these are relatively quiet stations and some are already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.[10]Earl's Court andHammersmith stations which have step-free access are respectively one stop to the east and two stops to the west. £5.05 million was spent on West Kensington before the project was halted.[11]
The off-peak service pattern is:
The station is also served byLondon Buses day and nightime routes.
| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barons Court towardsEaling Broadway orRichmond | District line | Earl's Court towardsUpminster orHigh Street Kensington | ||
| Former service | ||||
| Hammersmith towardsSt Pancras | Midland Railway (1878–1880) | Earl's Court Terminus | ||
