This is the 4th post titled Barons Court Station, showing a lack of imagination on the part of the author. In total there are one hundred and twenty posts in which Barons Court gets at least a mention.
The latest station news was that restoration and maintenance of the station, that started in February 2025, would be completed by the end of last year. The work was supposed to be undertaken at night to minimise disruption. In the event it proved a bigger job than anticipated, who would have guessed? Now, and you must follow closely, the station will be closed in two phases until the end of this year and then further work will continue at night until spring 2027 and you know what that means – probably late summer. The closures have started with the eastbound platform, so no eastbound trains will be stopping at BC until June. Briefly both platforms will be open for the Queen’s Club championships. Then the westbound platform will close until the end of the year.
This plan is an inconvenience not a catastrophe as Hammersmith (serving the Piccadilly and District Lines) and West Kensington (serving District only) are about fifteen minutes walk – less if you put your skates on.
When it is all over the station will be an Edwardian gem. The facade the tiling, the unique benches, the clocks will make it a place of pilgrimage. Or am I dreaming. And what, you ask, needs doing that is taking eighteen months? The Chinese could build an entire metro system in that time no doubt.
”Our works include restoring the canopies covering the stairs to the platform and on the platform itself, strengthening the cast iron columns holding up the canopy, replacing the timber cladding in the canopy and on the stairs, deep cleansing all glazing and replacing any broken glazing panels, and overhauling the station’s drainage system.
All of our works will be done with the heritage of the station in mind and every element will be restored to its previous state. This will include repainting the station in the original heritage District line colour scheme of green and cream.” (Transport for London)
The most surprising aspect of this whole saga is that the station has survived intact for 120 years when so many other stations have, often of necessity, been “improved”.