Queensway is a London Underground

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 station on the Central Line

Central Line

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, just inside the boundary of the City of Westminster

City of Westminster

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 with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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. It is at the junction of Queensway

Queensway (London)

Queensway is a bustling cosmopolitan street in the Bayswater district of west London. It contains many restaurants , pubs, letting agents, and high street stores...

 and Bayswater Road

Bayswater Road

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, and is northwest of Kensington Gardens

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. It is between to the west and to the east, and is in Travelcard Zone 1

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.

History

It opened on 30 July 1900, as Queen's Road, and was renamed on 9 September 1946. The building is an unusual survivor of the buildings designed for the Central London Railway

Central London Railway

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 by Harry Bell Measures

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 and that opened in 1900.

The station today

There is a crossover east of the station to allow trains from or to terminate here. The crossover is hardly ever used.

Redevelopment

It was closed between 8 May 2005 and 14 June 2006 for modernisation works. These works were prompted by the need to replace the station's two (very old) lifts, which had been breaking down quite frequently prior to the station's closure. In addition the station has been modernised and retiled, as well as having replicas of the original lamps fitted to the facade.

Metronet

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, the private maintenance contractors, were originally given a deadline of 9 May 2006 to complete the works. When they failed to meet this or the revised 12 June deadline, Transport for London

Transport for London

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 issued a harshly worded press release quoting London Underground

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 Managing Director Tim O'Toole

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 as saying "This is a further, and one hopes final, pathetic delay on a project that Metronet has failed to manage to time." The station finally re-opened on 14 June 2006.

During modernisation, the closest station was on the Circle and District lines, which is also located in Queensway

Queensway

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 approximately 100 metres north of the Queensway station. While the 2 stations are in close proximity, they are not connected.

The new Otis

Otis Elevator Company

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lifts proved unreliable. In May 2010 a notice in the ticket hall said that first one lift and then the other would undergo door modifications. The work lasted until August 2010.

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