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Earl's Court tube station is a London Underground station in Earls Court (note the inconsistency of spelling between the tube station and the above-ground area). The station is on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 1 and Zone 2. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 573 KB) The District Line platforms at Earls Court London Underground station viewed from the main concourse. ...
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Earls Court is a place in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in London, England. ...
Arms of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a London borough in the west side of central London, created in 1965 from the former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. ...
Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ...
Travelcard Zone 2 is the second most inward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ...
1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Transport for London (TfL) is a government body responsible for the transport system in the City of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ...
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Earls Court is a place in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. ...
Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ...
Travelcard Zone 2 is the second most inward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ...
The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ...
Barons Court is a station on the Piccadilly and District lines of the London Underground in England. ...
District line building Piccadilly line building Gloucester Road is a London Underground station in Kensington, near the intersection of Gloucester Road and Cromwell Road. ...
The District Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. ...
West Brompton is both a mainline railway on the West London Line (WLL) which connects Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction stns. ...
Kensington (Olympia) station is a railway and tube station in West London. ...
West Kensington is a station on the District Line, in Travelcard Zone 2. ...
High Street Kensington is a London Underground station at High Street in Kensington. ...
District line building Piccadilly line building Gloucester Road is a London Underground station in Kensington, near the intersection of Gloucester Road and Cromwell Road. ...
Metropolitan District Railway The original station was opened slightly to the east of the current station, as part of the Metropolitan District Railway (the MDR, now the District Line), in 1871. However, it was placed quite close to a junction, resulting in tight curves on the approach to the station. In 1878, to ease the awkwardness of trains passing this curve, the station was moved slightly westward, to its present site, and the curve made more gentle. The District Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. ...
As a consequence of the MDR seeking to expand into new areas by gaining running powers over a north south mainline railway just to the west of the station, and also due to the formation of the western edge of the Circle Line (part of the reason for the MDR's creation) just to the station's east, the station has become the major junction of the District Line. The Circle Line of the London Underground became known as such in 1949, when it was separated from its parent lines, the Metropolitan Line and the District Line, although it had been shown on Underground maps since 1947. ...
The line split into three branches to the West:
- A branch over the southern section of the mainline railway to Wimbledon via West Brompton;
- A branch over the northern section of the mainline railway as far as Kensington (Olympia);
- And the main route via West Kensington to the west.
 The 'next train' indicators on the District line platforms of Earl's Court tube station The line also split into two branches to the East: Wimbledon station is a National Rail, London Underground, and Tramlink station located in Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton. ...
Download high resolution version (1024x788, 239 KB)The next train indicators on the District and Circle line at Earls Court tube station Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 3 December 2004. ...
Download high resolution version (1024x788, 239 KB)The next train indicators on the District and Circle line at Earls Court tube station Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 3 December 2004. ...
- The western edge of the Circle Line heading north to Edgware Road via High Street Kensington.
- The main section of the District Line eastward under the Victoria Embankment via Gloucester Road towards Upminster
Since this was a major junction, the station was given four platforms (as two islands), rather than the usual two, leading to a level of confusion as to which platform to attend to achieve a particular destination. Attempts to solve this problem resulted in an unusual, but still surviving, feature at the station - each platform has a board containing a list of all possible final destinations of each train, with an illuminated arrow signifying which the train should be going to. Edgware Road, Bakerloo Line Edgware Road, Hammersmith and City Line Edgware Road tube station is the name given to two separate tube stations on London Underground. ...
Victoria Embankment, London The Victoria Embankment, previously the Thames Embankment is a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in London in the cities of Westminster and London. ...
Upminster station is a London Underground and National Rail station located in Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. ...
At the present time, travel through the station, on the district line, has been made simpler by the simple expediency of restricting possible routes to the following four alternatives (and their reverse)
- routes via Kensington Olympia to High Street Kensington
- routes via West Brompton to High Street Kensington
- routes via West Brompton to Gloucester Road
- routes via West Kensington to Gloucester Road
However, trains still pause at the station, for a significant period of time, in order that people who suddenly find they need to change trains are able to do so.
The station's original surface level exit at the east was later supplemented with an exit at the western end, connected both to an overbridge, and to a gallery on the northern side facing the platforms. With the introduction of a legal requirement in British Law, to provide access for the Mobility Impaired where possible, the gallery was connected to a new, curving, overbridge with lifts down to the platforms. When the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre opened to the west of the station, an additional third exit was constructed and a lengthy passage made between it and the overbridge at the western end of the platforms. The Earls Court Exhibition Centre is located in West London on the boundary between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham. ...
Piccadilly, Brompton, and Hammersmith Railway
The eastbound Piccadilly Line platform A station also opened here on the Piccadilly Line as one of the stations on the line's original route. Unusually, the station building was, and remains, within the train shed of the Metropolitan District Railway's station. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 835 KB) The eastbound Piccadilly Line platform at Earls Court tube station. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 835 KB) The eastbound Piccadilly Line platform at Earls Court tube station. ...
The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ...
Since the line ran directly under the Metropolitan District Railway platforms, the Piccadilly line platforms could afford to be widely spaced out, providing the ability for lifts to travel straight to the platform, in the intervening space, from the ticket office (at ground level). Unusual on the Underground, this still surviving feature has meant that the station could be considered fully accessible, for the Mobility Impaired, once lift access to the MDR platforms from ground level was provided.
This station was also the first on the Underground to utilise the benefits of escalators. After creating a passageway under the northern MDR platforms (to provide an alternative method of passing to the southern MDR platforms, involving shorter flights of steps), an escalator was driven to connect to the circulating area by the lifts at the Piccadilly platforms. Escalators at Westminster tube station, London An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move up or down on tracks that keep the surfaces of the individual steps horizontal. ...
However, people were sceptical, at first, therefore the company decided to employ a man, known as Bumper Harris, with a wooden leg to ride up and down the escalator continuously, for the first week. Evidently, the demonstration sufficiently persuaded passengers of its safety, as escalators are now the predominant method of reaching Underground platforms, when contrasted with the original system of lifts.
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