Acton Town
This disused platform on the east side of Acton Town station (LUL District and Piccadilly Lines) was used by the single-coach District Line shuttle service to South Acton until withdrawal on 28th February 1959. This station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway in 1879 on that company's freehold line from the LSWR at Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway and was known as Mill Hill Park until 1910. The District had had running rights over the LSWR from Studland Road Junction, just west of Hammersmith, to Turnham Green and on to Richmond enabling their trains to be extended to the latter. LSWR trains ceased in 1916, involving the abandoning of the line between Kensington Addison Road (now Kensington (Olympia)) and Studland Road where the District tracks joined and the closure of the LSWR stations at Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith Grove Road. It is still possible to see remains of the LSWR's curved viaduct at Hammersmith, cut into by modern office blocks.
Location: Acton Town
Original line: Ealing Broadway Branch (Metropolitan District Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Disused London stations, 1981-2022
Date: 09/02/2019
Image number: 80813
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