Ladbroke Grove tube station

Ladbroke Grove
Ladbroke Grove Location of Ladbroke Grove in Greater London
Location	Kensington
Local authority	Kensington and Chelsea
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	5.09 million
2012	5.30 million
2013	5.67 million
2014	6.08 million
Railway companies
Original company	Hammersmith and City Railway
Pre-grouping	Hammersmith and City Railway
Post-grouping	Hammersmith and City Railway
Key dates
13 June 1864	Opened as Notting Hill
1869	Renamed Notting Hill (Ladbroke Road)
1880	Renamed Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove
1 June 1919	Renamed Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)
1938	Renamed Ladbroke Grove
13 December 2009	Circle line service introduced
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
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Ladbroke Grove is a London Underground station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2 set in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .

Originally opened as part of the Metropolitan 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 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.

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.

In popular culture

This station appears in an earlier version of the music video for Lily Allen's "LDN". Lily alights here after travelling from Hammersmith tube station on the Hammersmith and City line with her red Raleigh Chopper bicycle. The station also appears in the films Kidulthood (2006) and Adulthood (2008).

Gallery

• Ladbroke Grove tube station 2.jpg

  View from the Westbound platform

• Ladbroke Grove tube station 3.jpg

  Ticket Office

• Ladbroke Grove tube station 5.jpg

  View from the Eastbound platform

• Ladbroke Grove tube station 6.jpg

  Roundel

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Ladbroke Grove station, north entrance, 1934
  • Ladbroke Grove station, south entrance, 1934
  • Bridge carrying line over Ladbroke Grove, 1934
  • Ladbroke Grove station entrance, 2001
  • View of platforms, 2001
• Lily Allen video on YouTube Video featuring Ladbroke Grove tube station (1 min 54 - 2 min).

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Latimer Road towards Hammersmith		Circle line		Westbourne Park towards Edgware Road (via Aldgate)
		Hammersmith & City line		Westbourne Park towards Barking