Talk:Kensington (Olympia) station

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article name
Should this be at Kensington Olympia station? The station name only has brackets on the tube map, and since it is managed by Silverlink (who are the primary users) shouldn't the name be what they call (and National Rail call it) rather than what one of the minority users (LUL) call it? Thryduulf 23:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

motorail
Should this section be deleted, or at least changed, since motorail no longer operates? Badgerific 11:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

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PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 08:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC) Kensington (Olympia) station → Kensington Olympia station — Brackets only appear on the Tube map. Majority of official sources (Network Rail documents, the National Rail Timetable, station signage itself - at one point a huge banner across the footbridge) omit them. —90.203.45.244 (talk) 20:03, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

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 * Support. It seems likely that the brackets are there just because of the tube map. The common name would most probably omit them. No significant edit history at the target name, incidentally. Andrewa (talk) 18:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

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Opening date?
This article, though written with some elegance and redundancy, is rather thin on history. The only mention of a date of opening is "1864" in the box. Borley & Kidner's "The West London Railway and the W.L.E.R." gives 27 May 1844 for the opening of Kensington station on the north south side of the Hammersmith Road. That seems to be near Kensington Olympia station. Is 1864 erroneous?--SilasW (talk) 19:01, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The 1844 "Kensington" station was open for only 6 months or so. Then in 1862 an "Addison Road" station opened to the north of Hammersmith Road, according to the London Rail Atlas, J, Brown (Ian Allan, 2009). "Addison Road" station became "Kensington (Olympia)" in 1946 after a period of closure from 1940. best, Sunil060902 (talk) 12:54, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Kensington (Olympia)
The name (Olympia) is that signed at the station, and isn't a case of it just appearing in the Tube map (as discussed in 2007 - see above). In fact, it appears on the National Rail "London Connections" map as (Olympia). Also, this is the name it was given as early as 1946, as it appears as such in the "London Railway Atlas" by Joe Brown (Ian Allan Publishing, 2009). best, Sunil060902 (talk) 10:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Please see: Image:Kensington Olympia stn Overground signage.JPG and Image:Kensington Olympia stn Underground signage.JPG. best, Sunil060902 (talk) 10:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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The external links are to the National Rail website, despite the caption saying they are TfL. This is an appropriate TfL link https://tfl.gov.uk/hub/stop/HUBKPA/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.163.160 (talk) 10:38, 11 December 2021 (UTC)