Notting Hill Gate tube station

Notting Hill Gate
Entrance through a subway
Notting Hill Gate Location of Notting Hill Gate in Central London
Location	Notting Hill
Local authority	Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1 and 2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	17.28 million
2013	17.39 million
2014	17.40 million
2015	16.68 million
Key dates
1868	Opened (MR)
1900	Opened (CLR)
1959	Combined Station Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°30′32″N 0°11′49″W / 51.509°N 0.197°W / 51.509; -0.197Coordinates: 51°30′32″N 0°11′49″W / 51.509°N 0.197°W / 51.509; -0.197

Notting Hill Gate is a London Underground station in the street known as Notting Hill Gate. On the Central line, it is between Holland Park to the west and Queensway to the east. On the District line and Circle line it is between High Street Kensington and Bayswater stations. It is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 1 and Zone 2.

The sub-surface Circle and District line platforms were opened on 1 October 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR) as part of its extension from Paddington to Gloucester Road. The Central line platforms were opened on 30 July 1900 by the Central London Railway (CLR). Entrances to the two sets of platforms were originally via separate station buildings on opposite sides of the road and access to the CLR platforms was originally via lifts.

The station name Notting Hill Gate had potential for confusion with the MR station to the north in Ladbroke Grove which was known as "Notting Hill" when opened in 1864, and renamed "Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove" in 1880. This latter station eventually, in 1919, dropped its reference to Notting Hill, becoming "Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)" in 1919 and, simply, "Ladbroke Grove" in 1938 (see Ladbroke Grove tube station).

The station was rebuilt in the late 1950s and reopened on 1 March 1959 linking the two 'Notting Hill Gate stations' on the Circle and District and Central lines, which had previously been accessed on either side of the street, with a shared sub-surface ticket hall with escalators down to the Central lines. The escalators were the first on the Underground to have metal side panels rather than wooden. The new entrance also acts as a pedestrian subway under the widened Notting Hill Gate. The mosaic columns at the Southern Entrance were created in 2006 by local public art organisation Urban Eye.