Holland Park tube station

Holland Park station stands on Holland Park Avenue in west London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It serves the Central line between Shepherd’s Bush and Notting Hill Gate, in fare zone two. The original building, designed by Harry Bell Measures for the Central London Railway, opened in 1900 with a flat roof intended for shops above. Refurbished in the 1990s, it once carried the last 1950s signage on the deep-level network. A fire on a Central line train in 1958 caused one fatality, and smoke filled the station again in 2013 after a train’s brakes failed. The station takes its name from the nearby Holland Park, a large green space to the south, and the residential district to its north. After lift replacement and refurbishment it closed in January 2016 and reopened that August. The flat-roofed building remains a quiet survivor of early twentieth-century design. London Buses routes 31, 94, 148, 228 and N207 stop outside, linking the area to the wider city. Inside, the ticket hall still shows signs of its 1920s appearance. Photographs in the London Transport Museum archive record the station’s history from 1914 to 2001. The park itself offers wide lawns and woodland walks just a short distance away.