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Queensway tube station

London Underground station

Field	Value
name	Queensway
symbol	underground
manager	London Underground
locale	Bayswater
borough	Westminster
platforms	2
fare_zone	1
image_name	Queensway tube station.jpg
caption	Station entrance
coordinates
map_type	Central London
label_position	right
original	Central London Railway
years1	30 July 1900
years2	1 September 1946
events1	Opened as Queen's Road
events2	Renamed Queensway
tubeexits06	7.331
tubeexits07	8.045
tubeexits08	8.480
tubeexits09	8.479--
railcode	QUE
interchange	Bayswater
interchange_note

Queensway () is a London Underground station in Bayswater, just inside the boundary of the City of Westminster with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is located at the junction of Queensway and Bayswater Road, and is opposite the north-west corner of Kensington Gardens. The station is on the Central line, between Notting Hill Gate and Lancaster Gate stations. It is in London fare zone 1.

History

The station opened on 30 July 1900, as Queen's Road, and was renamed on 1 September 1946. The building is an unusual survivor of the buildings designed for the Central London Railway by Harry Bell Measures, with a flat roof so that commercial development could take place above – in this case, a hotel. The Coburg hotel opened in 1907: its design features three cupolas, over shops and Queensway station. It was used as a location on the 1953 British film The Yellow Balloon (film).

The station today

There is a crossover east of the station to allow trains to terminate there. The crossover is not often used.

Refurbishment

The station was closed between 8 May 2005 and 14 June 2006 for refurbishment. These works were prompted by the need to replace the station's two (very old) lifts, which had been breaking down quite frequently prior to the station's closure. In addition the station had been modernised and re-tiled, as well as having replicas of the original lamps fitted to the façade.

Metronet, the private maintenance contractors, were originally given a deadline of 9 May 2006 to complete the works. When they failed to meet this or the revised 12 June deadline, Transport for London issued a harshly worded press release quoting London Underground Managing Director Tim O'Toole as saying "This is a further, and one hopes final, pathetic delay on a project that Metronet has failed to manage to time." The station finally re-opened on 14 June 2006.

During refurbishment, the closest station was on the Circle and District lines, which is also located on Queensway approximately 100 metres north of the Queensway station. While the two stations are in close proximity, they are not connected.

Connections

London Buses routes 70, 94, 148 and night route N207 serve the station.

Gallery

File:Queensway stn eastbound look west.JPG|Eastbound platform File:Queensway station westbound look east.JPG|Westbound platform File:Queensway station roundel.JPG|Station roundel

References

"Station Codes". Transport for London.
{{Citation London station interchange June 2020
"Paddington: Bayswater Pages 204-212 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington.". Victoria County History, 1989.
(12 June 2006). "Queensway station opening delayed again". [[Transport for London]].
(14 June 2006). "Queensway station reopened today".
(March 2022). "Buses from Bayswater (Queensway)".
(March 2022). "Night buses from Bayswater (Queensway)".

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