A two-year project to completely restore the listed Barons Court tube station starts on 13 February.
The station – served by District and Piccadilly line Underground trains – opened in October 1905. Many parts of the structure are nearing the end of their useful life.
Work will include restoring the canopies above the stairs leading to the platform and strengthening the cast iron columns on both platforms.
The glazing is being deep-cleaned and replaced where needed, and the station's drainage system is being overhauled.
"All work will be done with heritage in mind, and every element will be restored to its previous state," pledged Transport for London's Andrew Hatch. "This will include repainting the station in the original heritage District line colour scheme of green and cream."
When will work be done?
Work will be done overnight between midnight and 5.30am, Sundays to Thursdays, to limit disruption, and contractors are under instruction to keep noise to a minimum by using hand tools rather than power tools.
Tracks through Barons Court were laid in 1874, when the area was mainly open fields. But the Grade II-listed station opened 30 years later to serve new housing in West Kensington.
The high-backed red wooden platform benches, with the station name on enamelled panels, are found nowhere else on the London Underground network.
More than 5.2million journeys are made from the station each year.
