West Brompton station

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West Brompton
Location of West Brompton in Greater London
Location West Brompton
Local authority Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Managed by London Underground [1]
London Overground (western platforms only) [2]
Station code(s)WBP
DfT category E
Number of platforms4
AccessibleYes (except District line westbound platform) [3]
Fare zone 2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase2.svg 5.20 million [4]
2020Decrease2.svg 2.39 million [5]
2021Increase2.svg 2.73 million [6]
2022Increase2.svg 4.42 million [7]
2023Increase2.svg 5.18 million [8]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20Decrease2.svg 4.517 million [9]
2020–21Decrease2.svg 1.411 million [9]
2021–22Increase2.svg 3.027 million [9]
2022–23Increase2.svg 3.511 million [9]
2023–24Increase2.svg 4.252 million [9]
Key dates
1 September 1866Opened (WLEJR)
12 April 1869Started (Terminus) (DR)
1 March 1880Started (Through Service) (DR)
21 October 1940Ended (WLL)
1 June 1999Restarted (WLL)
Other information
External links
Coordinates 51°29′12″N0°11′45″W / 51.4866°N 0.1957°W / 51.4866; -0.1957
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West Brompton is a Grade II-listed [10] interchange station located on Old Brompton Road (A3218) in West Brompton, West London. The station is served by the District line of the London Underground; the Mildmay line of the London Overground; and National Rail services operated by Southern along the West London line.

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The station is situated immediately south of the demolished Earls Court Exhibition Centre and west of Brompton Cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The station's location on the West London line forms a borough boundary and its tracks are shared between Kensington & Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

History

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. [11] The original station was designed by the chief engineer of the Metropolitan and District Railway, Sir John Fowler [12] and thus has local railway associations that go back to 1838. [13] The current Lillie (road) bridge dates from 1860 and is the work of Fowler. [13] 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 Earls Court Exhibition Centre, now demolished.

On 12 April 1869, the District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened its own station adjacent to the WLEJR station as the terminus and only station on its extension from Gloucester Road station (Earl's Court station did not open until 1871). The original plan was to connect the DR to the WLEJR but this did not take place.

On 1 March 1880, the DR opened an extension south from West Brompton to Putney Bridge. [14] In 1906 a heat wave affected the railway such that one of the Underground's electric rails was warped at the station; trains coasted over the affected track until it was repaired. [15]

In 1940, during World War II, several WLL stations sustained bomb damage. Passenger services on the WLL between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction were withdrawn on 21 October 1940. The Underground station remained in use and the WLL continued in use for freight traffic. The WLL station buildings and platforms were subsequently demolished.

Full passenger services resumed on the WLL in 1994, but it was not until 1 June 1999 that new Network Rail platforms were opened at West Brompton by the then Minister of Transport, Glenda Jackson. There is a commemorative plaque to this effect on the Western lift tower. The station design was by Robinson Kenning and Gallagher of Croydon. [16] [17] The lift tower design is an echo of the decorative brickwork by the 19th c. City of London architect and surveyor, John Young designer of the nearby Empress Place and Lillie Road terrace in Fulham. [18] The works were funded by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on whose border the station lies.

The Mildmay line platforms do not have a separate entrance and access is from the Underground station. The District line serves platforms 1 and 2 and the Mildmay line serves platforms 3 and 4. There is a fence between platforms 2 and 3, but they are on the same level and it is possible to pass directly between them.

There are lifts to both Overground platforms for wheelchair access, and this means there is also step-free access to the eastbound District line platform, but not the westbound one. The station is in a cutting that is covered at one end.

Services

National Rail

National Rail services at West Brompton are operated by Southern using Class 377 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [19]

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

London Overground

West Brompton is located on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, with services operated by Class 378 EMUs. The following off-peak service pattern is provided, in trains per hour: [20]

During the late evenings, Mildmay line services run between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction only.

London Underground

The typical off-peak London Underground service on the District line in trains per hour is: [21]

Additional services, including trains to and from Dagenham East and Upminster call at the station during the peak hours.

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Southern
Preceding station Overground notextroundel.svg   National Rail logo.svg London Overground Following station
Kensington (Olympia)
towards Stratford
Mildmay line Imperial Wharf
towards Clapham Junction
Preceding station Underground no-text.svg London Underground Following station
Fulham Broadway
towards Wimbledon
District line
Earl's Court
towards Edgware Road or Upminster
Disused railways
Chelsea & Fulham   West London Railway   Kensington (Olympia)

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