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The interior of Olympia, hosting a trade fair Imre Kiralfy's Venice the bride of the sea, performance poster. Olympia Events, formerly known as Olympia London and sometimes referred to as the Olympia Exhibition Centre, [1] is an exhibition centre, event space and conference centre in West Kensington, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England.
During World War II, bomb damage to the West London Line caused the closure of the line, and the Willesden to Earl's Court shuttle last ran on 2 October 1940. [39] The section to Kensington (Olympia) was reopened on 19 December 1946 but ran only when exhibitions were open at Olympia.
View of Olympia from the station. In 1863, with the opening of the West London Extension Railway, a station named Kensington was opened 3 ⁄ 8 mile (600 m) north of the junction with the West London Railway, [8] but when several underground lines opened stations at High Street Kensington and West Kensington, the station name was changed to Addison Road to avoid any confusion.
Following bombing of the West London Line in 1940, the LMS and the Metropolitan line services over the West London Line were both suspended. This left the Olympia exhibition centre without a railway service, so after the war the Kensington Addison Road station was renamed Kensington (Olympia) and served by a District line shuttle from Earl's ...
High Street Kensington is a London Underground station on Kensington High Street, in Kensington. The station is on the Circle line between Notting Hill Gate and Gloucester Road stations, and on the District line between Earl's Court and Notting Hill Gate stations. It is located in Travelcard Zone 1. Kensington Arcade forms the entrance to the ...
The Ark, London, a notable ship-shaped office block; Sotheby's central London sales room is located at the Olympia; Design Museum relocated from Shad Thames onto the site of the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington High Street; Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) Riverside Studios, an arts centre re-opened by the Thames at Hammersmith ...
Holland Road, W14. Holland Road is a road in Kensington, London, which connects Kensington High Street with the Holland Park roundabout.The southernmost section is one-way (northbound only, returning via Addison Road) and forms part of the Kensington/Earl's Court one-way system.
For a time, the West London line formed part of the GWR's Middle Circle route (1872–1905) which ran (clockwise) from Mansion House to Aldgate (originally Moorgate) via Earl's Court, Kensington Olympia, Latimer Road and Baker Street.