Gloucester Road tube station

Gloucester Road
Entrance on Gloucester Road
Gloucester Road Location of Gloucester Road in Central London
Location	Gloucester Road
Local authority	Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	5
Fare zone	1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	14.19 million
2013	14.91 million
2014	11.96 million
2015	14.20 million
Key dates
1868	Opened (MR)
1868	Started (DR)
1869	Opened West Brompton extension (DR)
1872	Started "Outer Circle" (NLR)
1872	Started "Middle Circle" (H&CR/DR)
1900	Ended "Middle Circle"
1906	Opened (GNP&BR)
1908	Ended "Outer Circle"
1949	Started (Circle line)
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°29′41″N 0°10′59″W / 51.4947°N 0.1830°W / 51.4947; -0.1830Coordinates: 51°29′41″N 0°10′59″W / 51.4947°N 0.1830°W / 51.4947; -0.1830

Gloucester Road is a London Underground station in Kensington, west London. It is served by the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines. On the District and Piccadilly lines, the station is between South Kensington and Earl's Court, and on the Circle line, it is between South Kensington and High Street Kensington. It is in London fare zone 1. The station entrance is located close to the junction of Gloucester Road and Cromwell Road. Close by are the Cromwell Hospital and Baden-Powell House.

The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms, opened in 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway as part of the company's extension of the Inner Circle route from Paddington to South Kensington and to Westminster, and deep-level platforms opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks. The deep-level platforms have remained largely unaltered. A disused sub-surface platform features periodic art installations as part of Transport for London's Art on the Underground scheme.

The station was opened as Brompton (Gloucester Road) on 1 October 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR, later the Metropolitan line) when it opened an extension from Praed Street (now Paddington). The station acted as the temporary terminus of the railway until 24 December 1868 when the MR opened tracks to South Kensington to connect to the first section of the District Railway (DR, later the District line) which opened on the same day from South Kensington to Westminster. The station was provided with four platforms sheltered by an elliptical glazed iron roof. A two-storey station building in cream-coloured brick with arched windows and an ornamental balustrade at roof level was built at the eastern end. Initially, the MR operated all services over both companies' tracks.