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| Location | West Brompton |
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| Local authority | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
| Managed by | London Underground[1] |
| Station code | WBP |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Accessible |  [2] |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2005 | 2.944 million[3] |
| 2007 | 3.777 million[4] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 0.314 million[5] |
| 2005–06 | 0.412 million[5] |
| 2006–07 | 0.519 million[5] |
| 2007–08 | 0.633 million[5] |
| 1866 | Opened (WLEJR) |
| 1869 | Opened as terminus (MDR) |
| 1880 | Became through station (MDR) |
| 1940 | Closed (WLL) |
| 1999 | Reopened (WLL) |
| Lists of stations | *DLR |
| External links | *Departures
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| Template:Portal-inline Template:Portal-inlineCoordinates: 51°29′12″N 0°11′45″W / 51.4866°N 0.1957°W | |
West Brompton is a Network Rail West London Line (WLL) and London Underground District Line station in west London. It is located on Old Brompton Road (A3218) immediately south of Earls Court Exhibition Centre and to the west of Brompton Cemetery.
The station is on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line between Earl's Court and Fulham Broadway stations.
On the WLL, National Rail services are provided by Southern and London Overground. The station is between Kensington (Olympia) and Imperial Wharf stations.
History[]
The West London Extension Joint Railway (WLEJR) was opened in the early 1860s. It joined the southern end of the West London Joint Railway at Kensington (Olympia) station with Clapham Junction station and ran through West Brompton although a station was not opened until 1866.
On 12 April 1869, the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) opened its own station adjacent to the WLEJR station as the terminus and only station on its extension from Gloucester Road station (Earl's Court station did not open until 1871). The original plan was to connect the MDR to the WLEJR but this did not take place.
On 1 March 1880, the MDR opened an extension south from West Brompton to Putney Bridge.
In 1940, during World War II, several WLL stations sustained bomb damage. Passenger services on the WLL between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction were withdrawn on 21 October 1940. The Underground station remained in use and the WLL continued in use for freight traffic. The WLL station buildings and platforms were subsequently demolished.
Full passenger services resumed on the WLL in 1994, but it wasn't until 1 June 1999 that new Network Rail platforms were opened at West Brompton. The works were funded by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on whose border the station lies.
The WLL platforms do not have a separate entrance and access is from the Underground station. The District Line serves platforms 1 and 2 and the WLL serves platforms 3 and 4. There is a fence between platforms 2 and 3, but they are on the same level and it is possible to pass directly between them.
Image gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations. Transport for London (5 December 2006). Retrieved on 17 January 2010.
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Transport links[]
London bus routes 74, 190, 430, C1, C3 and night route N74 and N97.
External links[]
- London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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- London's Abandoned Tube stations - West London Line
- West Brompton, SubBrit disused stations project
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- Train times and station information for West Brompton station from National Rail
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| Preceding station |  National Rail
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| Kensington (Olympia) | Southern Milton Keynes - East Croydon |
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| Kensington (Olympia) | Southern Olympia to Wandsworth Road Limited service |
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| Chelsea and Fulham | West London Line | Kensington (Olympia) | ||
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