Miscellany
- It is the only tube station on the London Underground network to have six consecutive consonants in its name.
- The tunnels between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations follow a particularly twisting route to avoid a 17th century plague pit.
- In the tunnels between Knightsbridge and South Kensington there used to be Brompton Road, now permanently closed.
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