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Queensway is a small station on the Central Line
west of Marble Arch in the stretch between there and Notting Hill Gate. It recently reopened after an
extensive refurbishment that included the installation of new lifts.
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Queensway is located on the corner of the road of the same name
and the busy Bayswater Road directly opposite the north edge of Hyde Park. The
station building itself has a classic Central and South London Railway style entrance with
the addition of a new canopy fitted during the recent heavy refurbishment work. |
| The busy Bayswater Road runs past the south frontage and mirrors
the course of the Central Line from Marble Arch along the top edge of Hyde Park all the
way to Notting Hill Gate. |
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Queensway is one of two intermediate stations along this stretch
of extremely busy road, the other being the similar Lancaster Gate which at time of
writing had just been closed for extensive renovation and lift replacement in the same
vein as recently undertaken here. |
| Once you have ascended in the modern lifts, you are brought into a
very clinical clean environment that with the station only having just reopened when I
visited also made it eerily quiet. |
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At platform level, the level of refurbishment has been sympathetic
although much of the original (admittedly tired and grotty) character of the old station
has been lost. |
| Queensway and Bayswater Stations form
part one of the Underground's more peculiar anomalies. Travelling from one to the
other seems simple enough, go to Notting Hill Gate, change and then proceed one stop to
the destination. This should take you about fifteen to twenty
minutes and cost a couple of quid....... |
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Of course if you stand here, outside Queensway Station and look
northwards, you will see about a hundred metres away another Underground roundel on a
building, this being the aforementioned Bayswater Station, a
mere two minute walk away! |
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