Gloucester Road tube station

Gloucester Road London Underground
Station entrance
Gloucester Road is located in Central London
Gloucester Road
Gloucester Road
Location of Gloucester Road in Central London
LocationSouth Kensington
Local authorityRoyal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Managed byLondon Underground
Station codeGLR[1]
Number of platforms5
Fare zone1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2018Decrease 13.31 million[2]
2019Increase 13.74 million[3]
2020Decrease 3.93 million[4]
2021Increase 6.97 million[5]
2022Increase 10.49 million[6]
Key dates
1 October 1868Opened (MR)
24 December 1868Started (DR)
12 April 1869Opened West Brompton extension (DR)
1 February 1872Started "Outer Circle" (NLR)
1 August 1872Started "Middle Circle" (H&CR/DR)
30 June 1900Ended "Middle Circle"
15 December 1906Opened (GNP&BR)
31 December 1908Ended "Outer Circle"
1949Started (Circle line)
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°29′41″N 0°10′59″W / 51.4947°N 0.1830°W / 51.4947; -0.1830
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Gloucester Road is a London Underground station in Kensington, west London. The station entrance is located close to the junction of Gloucester Road and Cromwell Road. Close by are the Cromwell Hospital and Baden-Powell House.

The station is served by the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines. On the District and Piccadilly lines, the station is between South Kensington and Earl's Court, and on the Circle line, it is between South Kensington and High Street Kensington. It is in London fare zone 1.

The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms, opened in 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway as part of the company's extension of the Inner Circle route from Paddington to South Kensington and to Westminster; and deep-level platforms opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks. The deep-level platforms have remained largely unaltered with no lift access. A disused sub-surface platform features periodic art installations as part of Transport for London's Art on the Underground scheme.

  1. ^ "Station Codes" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.