Kensington (Olympia) station

... and then I was absolutely broke.

So then it was like, are you gonna put your pride to the side? So I just was like, "Okay, I'm gonna go and work at, like, these stadiums." Like, I think I worked at, like, Arsenal and Kensington Olympia and stuff like that.

Mm.

Like, I was just doing waitress and stuff, like hospitality stuff.

Built on a viaduct largely across open fields, the line opened on 13 June 1864 with a GWR service from Farrington to Hammersmith.

Services to Anderson Road, now Kensington Olympia, on the West London Railway via a link at Latimer Road, starting a few weeks later.

From 1865, the Met ran trains to Hammersmith and the GWR trains to Addison Road.

In 1867, the line became jointly owned by the two companies.

From 1937, new steel O-Stock trains with doors remotely operated by the guard replaced the wooden-bodied trains dating from 1906.

It had been intended to operate the new trains with four or six cars, but after initial problems with the traction, currently only six-car formations were used.

Services to Kensington Olympia via the curve at Latimer Road were suspended for the duration of World War II after bomb damage to the West London Line in 1940.

When similar trains running on the Circle Line were lengthened to six cars in 1959 and 1960, the stock of the two lines was integrated with the maintenance at Hammersmith Depot.