North Acton
LUL 1992 Central Line train to Ealing Broadway arriving at North Acton (opened 1923) on 9th February 2019. Though the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway was opened by the GWR in 1920, the Central London Railway (renamed Central Line in 1937) always provided the passenger service.The line was quadrupled in 1937 between North Acton and the point where the Central Line trains joined from Wood Lane (replaced by White City in 1947) with the extra tracks being used to segregate freight trains to and from the West London Line from the tube trains. The freight trains ceased in 1964 and the 1937 tracks were lifted with the junction north of the former Uxbridge Road station severed. Today, while there is still evidence of the extra tracks between North and East Acton, at White City new buildings and roads have completely obscured the link to, and junction with, the West London Line. (For further details of the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush line, see my photo of West Acton (image no. 80248).
Location: North Acton
Original line: Ealing and Shepherd^s Bush Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: LU Central Line + 1992 stock 2012-2022
Date: 09/02/2019
Image number: 80633
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