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Ladbroke Grove tube station

London Underground station

London Underground station

FieldValue
nameLadbroke Grove
symbolunderground
managerLondon Underground
localeNorth Kensington
boroughKensington and Chelsea
platforms2
fare_zone2
image_nameLadbroke Grove tube station 2.jpg
captionCircle and Hammersmith & City line westbound platform
coordinates
originalHammersmith and City Railway
pregroupHammersmith and City Railway
postgroupHammersmith and City Railway
years113 June 1864
years21869
years31880
years41 June 1919
years51938
years613 December 2009
events1Opened as Notting Hill
events2Renamed Notting Hill (Ladbroke Road)
events3Renamed Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove
events4Renamed Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)
events5Renamed Ladbroke Grove
events6Circle line service introduced
tubeexits064.654
tubeexits074.842
tubeexits085.440
tubeexits095.121 --

Ladbroke Grove () is a London Underground station. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and is located in London fare zone 2. The station is set in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

History

Originally opened by the Hammersmith and City Railway on 13 June 1864, the station was originally named Notting Hill. With the extension of that line from Paddington to Hammersmith it was renamed Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove in 1880 and Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington) on 1 June 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938. The renamings were efforts to avoid confusion with the opening of Notting Hill Gate tube station, which had occurred in 1868. The station is named after the street of the same name, where its main entrance is located.

The station is the nearest to Portobello Road Market and market traders and shopkeepers in the market have started a campaign to have the station renamed Portobello Road in an effort to strengthen recognition of the market's proximity. The roundels at platform level do say "For Portobello Road" underneath the station name in smaller text, enabling passengers to alight if they are looking for the market.

In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Ladbroke Grove 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. Ladbroke Grove is two stops away from Wood Lane which has step-free access. The project at Ladbroke Grove would have provided two new lifts to platform level and a new step-free entrance. £3.06 million was spent on Ladbroke Grove before the project was halted.

References

References

  1. Let's call it Portobello Road Tube, ''Evening Standard'', 30 June 2006
  2. "Disability and Deaf Equality Scheme (DES) 2009-2012". TfL.
  3. (21 April 2010). "TfL wastes £64million abandoning disabled access plans on the Tube". Evening Standard.
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