On the Central Line it is between Holland Park and Queensway, and on the District Line and Circle Line it is between High Street Kensington and Bayswater. It is in both zones 1 and 2. It opened on July 30,1900 and is most famous for its proximity to Portobello Road, the site of the movie Notting Hill, the Notting Hill Carnival, and the Portobello Market. July 30, 1900? Nigel read it again and again. But the date didn’t change. Was it a typo? Or was it right? If so, where the hell was the station before then? It existed, he had read about it in several newspapers. But where was it? He thought of Foster and his team waiting to pounce at Notting Hill Gate. He looked at his watch. It was nearly ten p.m. I’ll give it another ten minutes, he thought. He typed in the address for Google and entered the search term ‘History of the London underground’. The first hit was a site that offered a history of the tube decade by decade, beginning with 1860. In 1863 it told how the Metropolitan Railway was opened between Paddington and Farringdon Street, stopping at Edgware Road, Baker Street, Portland Road (now Great Portland Street), Gower Street (now Euston Square) and King’s Cross.
