West Brompton station
West Brompton   
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 West Brompton
Location of West Brompton in Greater London
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| Location | West Brompton |
| Local authority | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | WBP |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Accessible | Yes (except District westbound platform) |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2012 |
 4.54 million |
| 2013 |
4.61 million |
| 2014 |
 4.47 million |
| 2015 |
5.17 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
2.104 million |
| 2012–13 |
2.502 million |
| 2013–14 |
2.524 million |
| 2014–15 |
3.366 million |
| 2015–16 |
5.626 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1866 | Opened (WLEJR) |
| 1869 | Started (Terminus) (DR) |
| 1880 | Started (Through Service) (DR) |
| 1940 | Ended (WLL) |
| 1999 | Restarted (WLL) |
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| WGS84 | 51°29′12″N 0°11′45″W / 51.4866°N 0.1957°WCoordinates: 51°29′12″N 0°11′45″W / 51.4866°N 0.1957°W |
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West Brompton is a Tube and National Rail station on the District line and West London Line (WLL) in west London, on Old Brompton Road (A3218) immediately south of the demolished Earls Court Exhibition Centre and west of Brompton Cemetery.
The station is on the Wimbledon branch of the District line between Earl's Court and Fulham Broadway stations.
On the WLL, National Rail services are provided by Southern and London Overground. The station is between Kensington (Olympia) and Imperial Wharf stations. This part of the station and track is within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
Since 2000 it has been a Grade II (starting category) Listed Building.
The West London Extension Joint Railway (WLEJR) was opened in the early 1860s. It joined the southern end of the West London Joint Railway at Kensington (Olympia) station with Clapham Junction station and ran through West Brompton although a station was not opened until 1866. The original station was designed by the chief engineer of the Metropolitan and District Railway, Sir John Fowler and thus has local railway associations that go back to 1838. The current Lillie (road) bridge dates from 1860 and is the work of Fowler. The soon to disappear Lillie Bridge Railway and Engineering Depot, opened in 1872, is close by. Other historic associations are with the Lillie Bridge Grounds, a noted 19th c. athletics, cricket, ballooning and cycling venue adjacent to the West of the station and Brompton Cemetery adjacent to the East. From 1887, the station gave access to John Robinson Whitley's Earl's Court exhibition grounds and from 1937 to 2014 it was the alternative access to Earl's Court exhibition centre, currently being demolished.
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