Westbourne Park Tube Station

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Westbourne Park is a London Underground station in the Notting Hill area of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith and City lines, between Ladbroke Grove and Royal Oak stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2.It is in close proximity with Harrow Road W9. Tower Transit's Westbourne Park bus garage is opposite this station on the other side of the Great Western Road.HistoryAlthough the Metropolitan Railway had been extended to Notting Hill and Hammersmith on 1 June 1864 the first station by this name did not open until 1 February 1866. In 1867, with the companies on better terms, the Metropolitan bought a share of the H&CR from the GWR, after which they eliminated the broad-gauge track and operated almost all the trains (the H&CR's identity being effectively lost).The original station closed on 31 October 1871 and was replaced the following day by a new station constructed to the east of the original. To remove this traffic from their own busy main line, the GWR built a new pair of tracks from Paddington to Westbourne Park, and on 12 May 1878 they opened a diveunder to remove conflicts where the service crossed the main line. In February 1913 a bomb (possibly planted by the Suffragettes) was discovered at the station.