Queensway tube station

Queensway is a London Underground station, just inside the boundary of the City of Westminster with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is at the junction of Queensway and Bayswater Road, and is northwest of Kensington Gardens. It is between Notting Hill Gate and Lancaster Gate on the Central Line, and is in Travelcard Zone 1.

History

It opened on 30 July 1900, as "Queen's Road", and was renamed on 9 September 1946. The building is an unusual survivor of the buildings designed for the Central London Railway by Harry Bell Measures and that opened in 1900.

The station today

There is a crossover east of the station to allow trains from Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip to terminate here.

Redevelopment

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

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 [http://tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/press-releases/press-releases-content.asp?prID=814] 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 modernisation, the closest station was Bayswater on the Circle and District lines, which is also located in Queensway approximately 100 metres north of the Queensway tube station. While the 2 stations are in close proximity, they are not connected.

ee also

*List of London Underground stations

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