Earl’s Court Underground Station

I was over here on business and decided to try the Tube. The British are still doing a good job in London on their underground and Earl’s Court is clean and efficient. I would warn the traveler that two lines run through here, Piccadilly and District. That said, it’s not confusing as they have laid things out nicely. But give me a London cabbie any old day.

This is a nice station on the London Underground. Well located within the city and pretty clean. It is located on both the Piccadilly Line and the District Line.

I stayed at a hotel 5 minutes away from this station! And I’m so glad I did that! It was one if the best choices! Living by an underground station definitely makes life a lot easier! It’s very convenient to travel with this station! There are two lines, district and the Piccadilly lines! I could easily go to Westminster where the Big Ben, London eye, parliament and all the touristy stuff are! Well, it’s about 20 min, which is not bad! After a long day of sightseeing and walking, you can take a break and step away from tourists and area and have some me time.
Because it’s not smack in to center to london, it’s closer to the Heathrow airport! It’s a little less than an hour to get to the airport and the train runs very frequently unless it’s on the weekend like Sunday.
Also, it has so many hotels and restaurants right outside of this station.
I love how like metro has a ramp and elevators! Never a problem with my gigantic luggage here!

A bit old and confusing. I hate the fact that there are two district lines. I had to run across to a different platform to make it out to Royal Hospital road and just made the connection. Rickety rickety. I make it out. Luckily it wasnt too crowded or Im pretty sure I would have farfed the transfer

Earl’s Court is a bit all over the place at the best of times. The station itself isn’t bad, but the train times are always incorrect, trying to get downstairs onto the Piccadilly line when it’s even slightly busy is absolutely chaotic, and 95% of the time the ticket machines are acting up.
Not a horribly dreadful station, but definitely not up with the best either. Just so happens that 3 times I’ve stayed in London I’ve chosen a hotel next to it by chance, so I’ve came to know it relatively well. And what Earl is it named after anyway?

Ugggggh, this station is the pits. First literally because it’s underground and then figuratively since it’s terrible.
It’s old and it has one of those old signs with the arrows pointing at where it is going. Dear god, I hate those. Then, you have no idea when the train is going to arrive. They always give you a number of when it will arrive and then the train is early and leaves early or late and leaves even later.
Plus, it can be insanely busy depending on when you are here. This just makes everything worse.
I would never hold court with this Earl if I could help it. I hope someone somewhere once threw a rock at him.

Charming & essential, it is the connection between inner city & leisure circuit of the North to the South West. Crossing between the seminal line, Piccaddilly, to the quiet, refined, Suburban Green, District Line. Those platforms, its old fashion sign panels & commuters inspire thinkers, poets and lovers.

This station gets on my wick. What is with the old school arrow pointing sign board? Really that is not the problem with this station, it just feels like once you arrive there, the likelihood of leaving again is slim. I know that’s a strange thing to say, but it just feel lonely even though it’s often not.
Beside my personal feeling about the ghost station, it’s the main station for those venturing to the venue of the same name, and is the only interchange for tubes to Kensington Olympia. Interesting only two lines (green and purple/​ink blue) go through Earls Court, but that between the District and Piccadilly Lines that one station has multiple branches servicing west, southwest, central and northeast London — owww interesting!

A very busy station on the Piccadilly and District lines, Earl’s Court (aka Earls Court) can be a bit confusing and is definitely overwhelming at first glance. Take a deep breath, follow the signs, and you’ll be okay.
Several food and drink services inside the station as well as just outside on Earl’s Court Road.
I did not notice any step-​free access, but the tube map indicates that this station does have it.

what a shame it took me like two months to get used to their really non-​standard boards showing destination (are they from like 70s?)
Apart from that — picadilly line is really reliable from this station and can be catched even minutes after midnight to get to the city centre

Diese Station bietet den Zugang zu den District-​Lines und zur Picadilly-​Line des Londoner Untergrundbahnsystems. Der nordöstliche Ausgang führt auf die belebte Earl’s Court Road. Hier befindet sich eine dichte Ansammlung von gastronomischen Betrieben, alle großen Anbieter der Systemgastronomie sind dabei, dazu italienische und chinesische Spezialitätenrestaurants oder Vertreter der altenglischen Gastlichkeit. Dazu kommen Bankfilialen, Wechselstuben, Supermärkte. Der südwestliche Ausgang der Station führt auf die Warwick Road, wo sich dem Ausgang gegenüber der Eingang des Earls Court Exhibition Centre befindet, einer Mehrzweckhalle mit Ausstellungen und Auftritten bekannter Gruppen.

Very busy station in the underground network. The refurbishment work is nearly finish and the new roof looked really nice. The station offered two exit, the main one to earls court road and a small one to exhibition centers. One thing maybe helpful is you could only find cash machines on the main entrance but not the small one.

The station at the moment is having repairs done on it and as a consequence does not have the fine architecure or large amounts of space that it usually does. Unfortunately these vuilding works are set to go on for a while and so for at least 6 months there will be cramped platforms and limited vision of the train boards on the district line part of the station. This tube station is however very useful for switching between district and picadilly lines and switching between district lines. There are plenty of ways to down to bower platforms so often there are not large queues to get down to the Picadilly line.

Earl’s Court is one of the busiest stations on the Underground network, and the hub of the District Line, where services to Upminster, Edgware Road and Kensington Olympia meet the lines to Wimbledon, Richmond and Ealing Broadway. Nearly 21 million passengers use the station every year. Low level platforms also provide a connection to the Piccadilly Line.
What makes Earl’s Court stand out in my view is the magnificent overall roof above the four District line platforms, dating from 1878: it is one of the few large structures of its type on the Underground system.
Currently undergoing major refurbishment, the station now has lifts from ground level to both the Piccadilly Line and District Line platforms (although to go by lift between the two requires going via the gournd floor).
However, work has already finished on the Earl’s Court Road end of the station. Although opened in its current location in 1878, the façade dates from the Piccadilly line extension in 1906. Faced in heavily glazed tiles, restoration of this Grade II listed building has been completed, and it now has a spacious ticket hall behind the restored façade. (The earlier 1871 station was east side of Earl’s Court Road).
The Warwick Road entrance, opened in 1887 for the Earl’s Court fairground and entertainment venue, was completely rebuilt in 1937 in a modernist style, although this has since been unbalanced by a rather unweildy addition to its roof. Both the exit building and the passage from Warwick Road are still in need of renovation. There is also a small ticket office here, although it often seems to be closed due to staff shortages. There are ticket machines accepting cash and bank cards.
Below ground, there is a subterranean passage directly under Warwick Road to the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre, and this is also due for upgrading, although it seldom sees much use.
Station facilities are better than most: it is one of the few on the system with lavatories (charge), and several ATMs, on both sides of the barriers. At the Warwick Road exit are a small newsagents and tobacconists and confectionery stall, both open until 18.30. There are lots of shops, pubs, restaurants, a few pubs and a Post Office, all a minute or two’s walk from the Earl’s Court Road exit.

Several nice restaurants and shopping places around here. That is, if you exit on «Earl’s Court Road». Exit Warwick Road for the exhibitions.

I am a bit partial to this tube station; not only it is my local, but it has great history and lovely architecture (ok, and sometimes some strange people hanging around the exit).
It first opened in 1871, although the current building designed by Harry Ford came around in 1915.
It is also the home of the first escalator in the London underground network.
Great location with access to district and piccadilly lines; and is also one of a handful of station which sit across 2 tube zones (1 and 2) — which means that you get classified as zone 1 if you go to zone 1 and you get charged only for zone 2 travel if you go to zone 2.