Notting Hill Gate station

Notting Hill Gate is a TFS station on the Central line between St. Paul's and Holland Park. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

Station
Notting Hill Gate is unique where the northbound Central line platform is below the southbound. It is built this way to avoid tunneling under buildings where the road above is narrow. The station has no lifts but escalators serve the southbound platform while the northbound is also served by stairs. The station is frequently congested due to its small ticket hall and narrow platforms. There are plans to rebuild the station with a wider ticket hall and wider platforms and the installation of lifts to provide step-free access to the station and relieve congestion.

Services
Central line services usually run every two minutes between Epping and West Ruislip. Several trains terminate at Stratford and White City. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:

* 27tph northbound to Epping

* 3tph northbound to Stratford

* 24tph southbound to West Ruislip

* 6tph to White City

Incidents
During the Notting Hill Carnival in 2002, more than 50 arrests were made where 15 criminals managed to escape via the station's small ticket hall and deep northbound platform. The police was so lost that they lost direction of which platform they were at due to congestion. By the time they found out the correct platform, the criminals had already escaped.