Post by spsmiler on May 3, 2015 20:10:19 GMT
On the Wikipedia Encyclopeadia there is a photograph of High Street Kensington station in 1892 - when it had an overall roof. The track configuration is the same as now.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Street_Kensington_1892.jpg
Does anyone know when it was rebuilt - and why?
Was it bombed in WW2?
The Wikipedia image shows the platform exits as being at the northern end of the station, which suggests that the station building was right on Kensington High Street. So could it be that the station building and much else were torn down for the building of the Kensington Arcade and its shops?
This would account for half the station being subterranean and the platform entrances now being 'further along' the platforms.
Simon
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Street_Kensington_1892.jpg
Does anyone know when it was rebuilt - and why?
Was it bombed in WW2?
The Wikipedia image shows the platform exits as being at the northern end of the station, which suggests that the station building was right on Kensington High Street. So could it be that the station building and much else were torn down for the building of the Kensington Arcade and its shops?
This would account for half the station being subterranean and the platform entrances now being 'further along' the platforms.
Simon
