Kensington (Olympia) station

Kensington (Olympia)
Southbound view from Platform 2
Kensington (Olympia) Location of Kensington (Olympia) in Greater London
Location	Olympia
Local authority	Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Managed by	London Overground
Station code	KPA
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	3
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	1.80 million
2013	1.88 million
2014	1.95 million
2015	2.01 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2010–11	2.312 million
2011–12	5.227 million
2012–13	5.291 million
2014–15	7.249 million
2015–16	10.905 million
Railway companies
Original company	West London Railway
Pre-grouping	West London Railway
Post-grouping	West London Railway
Key dates
1862	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°29′55″N 0°12′39″W / 51.4986°N 0.2108°W / 51.4986; -0.2108Coordinates: 51°29′55″N 0°12′39″W / 51.4986°N 0.2108°W / 51.4986; -0.2108

Kensington (Olympia) is a combined rail and tube station in Kensington, West London. It is managed and served by London Overground and also served by Southern and London Underground. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. On the Underground it is the terminus of a short District line branch, built as part of the Middle Circle, from Earl's Court; on the main-line railway it is on the West London Line from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction, by which many trains bypass Central London. The station's name is drawn from its location in Kensington and the adjacent Olympia exhibition centre.

A station was opened by the West London Railway as its southern terminus on 27 May 1844 as "Kensington", just south of Hammersmith Road; it closed at the end of November 1844 due to the losses made. A scant and erratic goods service continued, the line re-opened to passengers with a new station called "Addison Road" on 2 June 1862, to the north of Hammersmith Road. Great Western Railway trains started serving the station in 1863, with London & North Western Railway trains arriving in 1872. A link to the Hammersmith & City Railway enabled the "Middle Circle" service to operate via Paddington to the north and South Kensington to the south. From 1869, the London & South Western Railway operated trains from Richmond to London Waterloo via Addison Road, until their branch via Shepherd's Bush closed in 1916. By 1907 the Middle Circle had been replaced by four Hammersmith & City line trains an hour. The station appears on the first 'London Underground' map in 1908 with Metropolitan and District Railway services.