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The station was opened on 24 December 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR, later the Metropolitan line) and the District Railway (DR, later the District line).The MR had previously opened an extension from Paddington (Praed Street) (now Paddington) to Gloucester Road on 1 October 1868 and opened tracks to South Kensington to connect to the DR when the DR opened the first section of its line ...
South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton . [ 1 ] Its name was supplanted with the advent of the railways in the late 19th century and the opening (and shutting) and naming of local tube stations. [ 2 ]
He bid £1.9m for the building opposite South Kensington tube station. [8] [9] Through Criterion, unveiled plans to turn the Trocadero into a 500-room pod hotel in 2009. [10] In 2014, plans were also unveiled to open a TK Maxx retail store on the Trocadero site, [11] though the media reported possible opposition from the Crown Estate. [12] [13 ...
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The Metro Tunnel, formerly known as Melbourne Metro Rail (MMR), is an underground rapid transit project currently under construction in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It involves the construction of twin 9-kilometre (5.6 mi) rail tunnels between South Kensington (north west of the Melbourne central business district) and South Yarra (in the south east) with five new underground stations.
A south-west/north-east tube line was ... the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea initially ... station involve the redevelopment of parts ...
The main entrance to Kensington Arcade which includes the entrance to High Street Kensington station. The Arcade was built as part of the redevelopment of High Street Kensington tube station by the Metropolitan Railway between 1906-07 from designs by their consultant architect, George Campbell Sherrin, with the neighbouring department stores, Pontings and Derry & Toms taking the store space.
It was a tube railway, but reached the surface just to the west of West Kensington station. [10] The concrete building was demolished, and new car sheds were constructed at the depot, long enough to hold three of the six-car Piccadilly trains, which reached the depot by using the District tracks.