Bayswater tube station
Bayswater 
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Entrance on Queensway
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 Bayswater
Location of Bayswater in Central London
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| Location | Queensway |
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2012 |
 5.54 million |
| 2013 |
 5.49 million |
| 2014 |
5.69 million |
| 2015 |
5.22 million |
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| 1868 | Opened as "Bayswater" (MR) |
| 1926 | Started (District) and renamed "Bayswater (Queen's Road) & Westbourne Grove" |
| 1933 | Renamed "Bayswater (Queen's Road)" |
| 1946 | Renamed "Bayswater (Queensway)" (suffix gradually dropped) |
| 1949 | Started (Circle) |
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| WGS84 | 51°30′43″N 0°11′17″W / 51.512°N 0.188°WCoordinates: 51°30′43″N 0°11′17″W / 51.512°N 0.188°W |
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Bayswater is a London Underground station in the Bayswater area of the City of Westminster. The station is on the Circle and District lines, between Notting Hill Gate and Paddington stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1. It is less than 100 metres (330 ft) away from the Central line's Queensway station.
The station is located on the busy Queensway tourist street and is only a short walk from Portobello Market. Further north along the street is Whiteleys shopping centre. Also nearby is Westbourne Grove, Queens ice rink and bowling centre, Kensington Gardens and St Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral. It is less than 100 metres (330 ft) away from Queensway station on the Central line.
The station was opened by the steam-operated Metropolitan Railway (MR) (now the Metropolitan line) on 1 October 1868 as Bayswater, as part of the railway's southern extension to South Kensington where it connected to the District Railway (DR). 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 42 feet (13 m) 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.
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