The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened the Hammersmith & City Railway (H&CR) on 13 June 1864, and from 1 July 1864 carriages from Kensington (Addison Road) (now Kensington [Olympia]) were attached and detached from trains at Notting Hill; through services between Kensington and the City of London beginning in April 1865.includeonly> A station had been built on the chord linking the H&CR and West London Railway, but this never opened due to GWR objections.includeonly> Following an agreement between the Metropolitan Railway and GWR in August 1868,includeonly> Uxbridge Road station, designed by the London & North Western Railway (L&NWR), opened on the West London Railway on 1 November 1869.includeonly>