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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.
The District line is a London Underground line running from Upminster in the east and Edgware Road in the west to Earl's Court in west London, where it splits into multiple branches. One branch runs to Wimbledon in south-west London and a short branch, with a limited service, only runs for one stop to Kensington (Olympia) . [ 2 ]
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.
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 ...
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.
It was owned by Angus McKenzie, [7] [8] who had purchased Larry Lyons's Olympia Studio in Fulham. McKenzie then took on a lease for a derelict synagogue situated at Carlton Street, in London's West End. [9] In conjunction with Richard "Dick" Swettenham, McKenzie opened Olympic's Studio One, with a valve-based recording console from the Olympia ...
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, it now serves a large part of Greater London as well as Hertfordshire, with 113 stations on the six lines that make up the network.
The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. Its first section opened in 1863, [ 1 ] making it the oldest underground metro system in the world – although approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, [ 2 ] as it ...