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| map_type = Central London| label_position = right| years1 = 1 October 1868 | years2 = 1 November 1926| years3 = 1933| years4 = 1946| years5 = 1949| years6 = Bayswater" (MR)HYWEL URL=HTTP://UNDERGROUND-HISTORY.CO.UK/RENAMES.PHP WORK=RENAMED STATIONS ACCESS-DATE=10 JUNE 2015 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20150610050711/HTTP://UNDERGROUND-HISTORY.CO.UK/RENAMES.PHP, 10 June 2015, | events2 = Started (District) and renamed "Bayswater (Queen's Road) & Westbourne Grove"| events3 = Renamed "Bayswater (Queen's Road)"| events4 = Renamed "Bayswater (Queensway)" (suffix gradually dropped)Rose|1999}}| events6 =Queensway tube station>Queensway {{rail-interchangeunderground}}| interchange_note = {{Citation London station interchange June 2020}}}}Bayswater is a London Underground station in the Bayswater area of the City of Westminster. The station is on the Circle and District lines, between Notting Hill Gate and Paddington stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1.MAP/STANDARD TUBE MAP, It is less than {{convert|100|m|ft}} away from the Central line's Queensway station.

Location

The station is located on the busy Queensway tourist street and is only a few metres from Bayswater Road. It is a short walk from Portobello Market.WEB,weblink Bayswater Tube Station, Google Maps, 10 June 2015, Further north along the street is the site of the former Whiteleys shopping centre, which is currently under redevelopment.NEWS,weblink Laing O'Rourke wins £250m Whiteleys job, 16 October 2019, Building, 26 October 2019, Also nearby is Westbourne Grove, Queens ice rink and bowling centre, Kensington Gardens and St Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral. It is less than {{convert|100|m|ft}} away from Queensway station on the Central line.

History

The station was opened by the steam-operated Metropolitan Railway (MR) (now the Metropolitan line) on 1 October 1868 as Bayswater, as part of the railway's southern extension to South Kensington where it connected to the District Railway (DR).{{sfn|Rose|1999}}WEB,weblink Feather, Clive, Circle line, Clive's Underground Line Guides, 3 June 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150603155710weblink">weblink 3 June 2015, live, WEB,weblink Feather, Clive, District line, Clive's Underground Line Guides, 3 June 2015, 3 June 2015, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150603155929weblink">weblink Construction of the railway line, through the already developed Bayswater area required the excavation of a tunnel using the cut and cover method: a trench {{convert|42|ft|m}} deep was excavated between brick retaining walls which was then roofed-over with brick arches to allow building work above. Large compensation payments were made to landowners affected by the excavations and, in Leinster Gardens to the east, the frontages of two houses demolished to make way for the line were reconstructed to restore the appearance of a terrace of houses.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2008|pp=20–21}}The dummy frontages at 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens remain and feature blank windows and false front doors and small porticos matching the adjacent buildings.{{multiple image

}}The platforms of Bayswater station were constructed in the trench and provided with a glazed roof. A short section of the trench was left unroofed to the west of the station to allow smoke and steam from the trains to escape from the tunnels. Even before the completion in 1884 of the continuous circuit of tracks which are now the Circle line, the MR and DR operated services through Bayswater as the Inner Circle. The MR originally provided all of the trains, but from 1871, each company operated half of the service.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2008|pp=25–26}}In 1905, to improve the conditions in the tunnels and stations and increase service frequencies, the MR electrified the tracks through Bayswater and, in conjunction with the DR, around the whole of the Inner Circle and across most of their routes. Electric trains began running on 1 July 1905, but the MR's poor coordination of the installation work with the DR led to disruption for several months.{{sfn|Wolmar|2005|pp=125–126}}(File:Bayswater (Queensway) Station 1773229 93e608fe.jpg|thumb|right|Exterior view in 1961) On 1 November 1926, the District line began a service between Edgware Road and Putney Bridge and the station was also renamed to Bayswater (Queen's Road) & Westbourne Grove. From this date the MR operated all Inner Circle services apart from a few District line operated Sunday services.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2008|p=98}} The station was then renamed again to Bayswater (Queen's Road) in 1933. In 1946, it was renamed to Bayswater (Queensway) but the suffix was gradually dropped. In 1949, the service was separately identified on the tube map as the Circle line for the first time.{{sfn|Rose|1999}}The station was refurbished by Metronet in 2006.WEB, Station Refurbishment Summary, London Underground Railway Society,weblink July 2007, 10 June 2015, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150610054334weblink">weblink 10 June 2015,

Services and connections

Services

Circle line

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:

• 6tph clockwise to Edgware Road via Paddington (Praed Street)WEB,weblink Circle line timetable: From Bayswater Underground Station to Paddington Underground Station, Transport for London, 6 June 2015,
• 6tph anti-clockwise to Hammersmith via High Street Kensington and VictoriaWEB,weblink Circle line timetable: From Bayswater Underground Station to Notting Hill Gate Underground Station, Transport for London, 6 June 2015,

District line

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:

• 6tph eastbound to Edgware RoadWEB,weblink District line timetable: From Bayswater Underground Station to Paddington Underground Station, Transport for London, 6 June 2015,
• 6tph westbound to WimbledonWEB,weblink District line timetable: From Bayswater Underground Station to Notting Hill Gate Underground Station, Transport for London, 6 June 2015,

There is also a morning service every day from Acton Town (Ealing Broadway on Saturdays) to Edgware Road and a late evening service from Edgware Road to Ealing Broadway on Sundays only.

Connections

London Bus day, night and 24-hour bus routes serve the station.WEB, Transport for London,weblink Day buses from Bayswater (Queensway), 28 February 2015, 3 June 2015, 3 June 2015, live,weblink WEB,weblink Transport for London, Night buses from Bayswater (Queensway), 27 October 2014, 3 June 2015, 3 June 2015, live,weblink

Incidents

In November 2017, a 29-year-old man attempted to murder a 55-year-old man by pushing him in front of a District line train as it was pulling in to the platform. However, the victim survived by adopting a foetal position between the rails as the train passed over him.NEWS,weblink Man admits Tube push murder bid, BBC News, 9 February 2018,

In popular culture

Bayswater tube station is the subject of a painting by Walter Sickert dating from 1916, showing the platform-sign reading 'Queen's Road (Bayswater)' beside a big advertisement for Whiteley's department store. The station was later renamed Bayswater, to avoid confusion with Queensway station, which was also named 'Queen's Road' until 1946.Whitely's had a mention in the 1964 film My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison when Professor Higgins asked Col. Pickering where to go to dress a fashionable lady, "why to Whitely's of Bayswater of course".

Notes

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References

Citations

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Sources

• BOOK, Day, John R., Reed, John, 1963, 2008, The Story of London's Underground, Capital Transport, 978-1-85414-316-7,
• BOOK, Rose, Douglas, The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History, 1999, 1980, Douglas Rose/Capital Transport, 1-85414-219-4,
• BOOK, Wolmar, Christian, The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever, Atlantic Books, 1-84354-023-1, 2004, 2005, Christian Wolmar,

External links

{{Commons category|Bayswater tube station}}

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328011856weblink |date=28 March 2017 }}
  • {{LTM archive|1998-84666|Bayswater station, 1868}}
  • {{LTM archive|2005-268|Bayswater station, 1934}}

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