Ladbroke Grove station
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Ladbroke Grove station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 Nov 2013
What is now Ladbroke Grove station opened on 13th June 1864 and was served by two existing railway lines – the Hammersmith & City Railway which opened on the same day (owned by the Great Western Railway and running between Westbourne Park and Hammersmith stations) and the West London Railway (WLR) which opened just over two weeks later on 1st July 1864 and left this line at what is now Latimer Road to reach Addison Road (now Kensington Olympia). The link to Addison Road was closed on 19th October 1940. The station was originally opened as 'Notting Hill' It was renamed 'Notting Hill (Ladbroke Road)' in 1869, 'Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove' in 1880 and 'Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)' in 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938. Trains on the Hammersmith & City Line serve the station and now also, in an effort to improve its reliability, the Circle Line. The next station in this direction is Latimer Road. The afternoon was quite as miserable as it looks in the photograph.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.517076
Longitude
-0.211991