High Street Kensington Tube Station

Ist eine übersichtliche Station, wenn man den Dreh raus hat und das hat man relativ schnell. Hier verkehren, wenn ich es recht in Erinnerung habe glaube ich 3 verschiedene Linien. Auf jeden Fall gab es 3 verschiedene Endbahnhöfe. Station war sauber genug, und draussen sind genügend Geschäfte vorhanden. Habe hier meinen Zug nach Earl’s Court und Wimbledon genommen.

High Street Kensington Station is really very convenient and almost perfectly located for discount hotels and shopping. It is clean and the staff are polite unlike nearly all subways in the US which are overcrowded with machineguntotingcops.
The station is right next to Marks and Spencer so one can shop, shop, shop then tote tote tote, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than a cab and rush hour is dreadful.

Average station… On the upside it is part of a fairly descent shopping centre with several shop and restaurants. The station is fairly easy to navigate as it does not have that many lines.

Very Clean compare to the US. They go by colors which are nice, but they don’t post times like in the US. They just post First and Last times, and as the train approaches they post the current ETA. But they could list post times like, on 15, 30, and 45 of the hour. The ticket office was very helpful.

A top of it’s game tube station for a top of it’s game high street. You really can’t lose.
Ok, sometimes you can, when you think you’re on the District Line but it’s actually the Circle Line because they’re served by the same platform and you stupidly hop on without looking. But, uh, that’s never happened to me. I promise.
Beyond that though, this station is top notch. It’s a beautiful old building with beautiful old bricks. It’s easy to get in and out of and the trains seem to mostly run on time. I wish they could all be this elegant and easy.

This station is super convenient … when it’s open. I stayed in a hotel around this are and fortunately for me (or … unfortunately for me?) this station was closed the entire weekend for maintenance and repairs making it very difficult for me to get around. However, the Monday that I was here, and the station was finally open, it was absolutely incredible!
The High Street Kensington station connects you to the Circle, District lines as well as the Northern line further down and the Piccadilly line as well. The train connects either directions in about 2 – 3 stops so it’s not very long of a ride. It also goes to the Paddington Station which means transfers from Heathrow (LHR) a breeze.
I recommend this station as it seems newer and hipper… and has more vendors than most other stations I’ve seen.

One of the better tube station as the ground level has several stores in a Arcade setting.
Served by the District and Circle lines from the same platforms so make sure you know what train you are boarding.

With a name like «Kensington High Street,» you would expect the station to be top notch. It’s a great name for a station. And… it lives up to the expected reputation. Set back a bit from the street through a high class shopping arcade including Pret a Manger and a Marks and Spencers, it’s well appointed and lovely to look at and transit through. There are a large number of buses that stop right out front as well.
On the Circle/​District Line, there are multiple platforms here. Pay attention lest you end up headed the wrong way. It is between Earl’s Court and Notting Hill Gate on the District line and between Gloucester Road and Notting Hill Gate on the Circle Line. It is also where the District line branches off to serve Olympia station.
There are Oyster readers and ticket barricades and ticket booth is usually staffed. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station was just off and kensington high street and also very close to kensington gardens. It offers service for both district line and circle line. The frenquency of the trains was not high and sometimes you need to wait long time for the train. The station also has a shopping arcade. There were also many bus routes just outside the station.

Kensington High Street is one of the major transport hubs of West London, on both the Circle Line and District Line (Wimbledon-​Edgware Road and Kensington Olympia-​High Street Kensington). It is one of the most attractive underground stations in central London, having retained many of its architectural features, and is used by just under 12 million passengers a year.
The station first opened in 1868, on the Metropolitan Railway’s extension south from Edgware Road, via Paddington (Praed Street) and Notting Hill Gate to Gloucester Road, and extended a few months later to South Kensington. The District Railway, extending from the Westminster direction, also built a set of tracks from Gloucester Road, as well as another set from Earl’s Court in 1869, establishing the current layout of two through tracks on the Metropolitan Line, and two terminating platforms for the District.
The original station had a fine overall roof, but the whole station was rebuilt in 1903-​04 to designs by George Sherrin to incorporate a row of shops on Kensington High Street, with the station behind, accessed via a short passageway, also lined with shops. In 1937 – 8, the present booking hall was built, giving us the layout we see to-​day. The platforms retain their elegant Edwardian canopies, giving an almost rural feel. The downside of the station is that it has no escalators, and access to and from the northbound platform via the single staircase can get very congested.
There is an indicator on the bridge between the two platforms, showing the next Earl’s Court train. The booking office has a shoe repair and key cutting shop, as well as a florists. Although perfectly located for Kensington High Street’s shops and bus services, the position on the network means that access to and from central London requires a change at Notting Hill Gate onto the Central Line or South Kensington onto the Piccadilly Line.