South Kensington Station

South Kensington was opened in 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR) and the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR), as part of the two companies extension of the Inner Circle Route eastwards from Gloucester Road to Westminster.

by 1871 the station had two through platforms for each company and a bay platform for terminating MR trains from the west.

The North London Railway ran the Outer Circle service from Broad Street, via Willesden Junction to Addison Road to Mansion House, the terminus of the NDR.

From 1872 the Middle Circle service began to run through South Kensington running from Moorgate along the MR to Paddington and then to Latimer Road and over the MDR to Mansion House.

The Middle Circle service was withdrawn in 1900 and the Outer Circle was shortened to Earls Court in 1908.