View from the south end of Latimer Road station on 9th August 2013. The angle of the 1864 viaduct wall on the left is the only clue to the one-time Latimer Road spur which diverged here to descend to a junction with the West London Line north of Uxbridge Road station. This was used by a Metropolitan Line shuttle service from Edgware Road to Kensington (Addison Road) (now Kensington (Olympia)) which was withdrawn as a WWII economy in October 1940 and never reinstated. This also saw the closure of Uxbridge Road station while the rest of the Latimer Road spur was demolished in the 1970s to make way for a new north/south road. The remains of Uxbridge Road station entrance, which was actually situated on Holland Park Avenue, survived until demolition in the late 1960s. Today, the site of its platforms is more or less occupied by those of the London Overground's Shepherd's Bush station, which opened in 2008. The wide spacing of the tracks is a result of the removal of the broad gauge rails in 1869 when GWR trains ceased to run to Hammersmith after only five years, the line consisting of mixed gauge until then to accommodate both GWR and Metropolitan Railway trains.

Location: Latimer Road

Original line: Hammersmith and City Railway (Great Western Railway and Metropolitan Railway Joint)

Photographer: David Bosher

Contact photographer: David Bosher

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Date: 09/08/2013

Image number: 73516

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