| Template:R-I Template:R-I Template:R-I Template:R-I | |
| File:Bayswater Station Exterior.jpg Entrance on Queensway | |
| Location | Queensway |
|---|---|
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2007 | File:Decrease2.svg 6.043 million[1] |
| 2008 | File:Decrease2.svg 5.98 million[2] |
| 2009 | File:Increase2.svg 6.44 million[3] |
| 1868 | Opened (MR) |
| 1926 | Started (District) |
| 1949 | Started (Circle) |
| Lists of stations | *DLR |
| Template:Portal-inlineCoordinates: 51°30′43″N 0°11′17″W / 51.512°N 0.188°W | |
Bayswater is a London Underground station in the Bayswater area of the City of Westminster. It is served by the Circle and District lines and is between Notting Hill Gate and Paddington stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station is located on Queensway and is close to Whiteleys shopping centre, Westbourne Grove, Queens ice rink and bowling centre, Kensington Gardens and St Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Less than Template:Convert/m away is the Central line's Queensway station.
History[]
Ordnance Survey map showing Bayswater station in 1869
The station was opened by the steam-operated Metropolitan Railway (MR) (now the Metropolitan line) on 1 October 1868, as part of the railway's southern extension to South Kensington where it connected to the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR).includeonly>[4] Construction of the railway line, through the already developed Bayswater area required the excavation of a tunnel using the cut and cover method: a trench Category:Aldwych Branch The Short Streach Of Line Between Holborn And Aldwych Was Closed In 1994.The Line Was Due To be extended to Waterloo but never was.There will be a bit of Aldwych In My Website when added deep was excavated between brick retaining walls which was then roofed-over with brick arches to allow building work above. Large compensation payments were made to landowners affected by the excavations and, in Leinster Gardens to the east, the frontages of two houses demolished to make way for the line were reconstructed to restore the appearance of a terrace of houses.includeonly>[5][note 1]
Template:Multiple image The platforms of Bayswater station were constructed in the trench and provided with a glazed roof. A short section of the trench was left unroofed to the west of the station to allow smoke and steam from the trains to escape from the tunnels. Even before the completion in 1884 of the continuous circuit of tracks which are now the Circle line, the MR and MDR operated services through Bayswater as the Inner Circle. The MR originally provided all of the trains, but from 1871, each company operated half of the service.includeonly>[6]
In 1905, to improve the conditions in the tunnels and stations and increase service frequencies, the MR electrified the tracks through Bayswater and, in conjunction with the MDR, around the whole of the Inner Circle and across most of their routes. Electric trains began running on 1 July 1905, but the MR's poor coordination of the installation work with the MDR's led to disruption for several months.includeonly>[7]
On 1 November 1926 the District line began a service between Edgware Road and Putney Bridge. From this date the MR operated all Inner Circle services apart from a few District line operated Sunday services.includeonly>[8] In 1949, the service was separately identified on the tube map as the Circle line for the first time.includeonly>[4] Template:Clearleft
Transport links[]
London bus route 70 serves the station.[9]
Notes and references[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Template:Citation London Underground performance exits 2003 to 2011
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rose 1999.
- ↑ Day & Reed 2008, pp. 20–21.
- ↑ Day & Reed 2008, pp. 25–26.
- ↑ Wolmar 2005, pp. 125–126.
- ↑ Day & Reed 2008, p. 98.
- ↑ Day buses from Bayswater (Queensway). Transport for London. Retrieved on 3 October 2010.
References[]
Bibliography[]
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- Day, John R [1963] (2008). The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-316-6.
- Rose, Douglas [1980] (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
- Wolmar, Christian [2004] (2005). The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever. Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-023-1.
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External links[]
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- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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