Willesden Junction High Level
View from 378205, with a London Overground service to Clapham Junction, just departed from Willesden Junction and diverging onto the West London Line, with the tracks to Richmond on the right, on the afternoon of New Year's Day, Saturday 1st January 2022. There were no regular local passenger services on the West London Line between 1940 and 1994 (apart from a completely unadvertised service for Post Office workers that began in 1945 between Kensington (Olympia) and Clapham Junction) and only then just a shuttle service of diesel units between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction which replaced the unadvertised P.O. service. The line was later electrified with three new stations and became part of the London Overground in 2007. National Rail Southern services also use the line. (The unadvertised P.O. service was the last steam-hauled local passenger service in London, not being dieselised until 1967.)
Location: Willesden Junction High Level
Original line: Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Date: 01/01/2022
Image number: 79624
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