South Acton railway station

South Acton is a railway station in the London Borough of Ealing. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 3 at the North London Line and is served by London Overground trains. South Acton was for several decades also the terminus of a branch line to the London Underground District Line belonging.

History

The station was opened on 1 January 1880, the North & South Western Junction Railway, a joint venture of the London and North Western Railway, the Midland Railway and the North London Railway. The operation on the 1,100 -meter-long link to Acton Town began on 15 May 1899 for the time being, however, only for freight. After the electrification of the Metropolitan District Railway took, the predecessor company of the District Line, the passenger traffic. Despite the duality of the route they took in South Acton only one platform. The first trains ran on Acton Town to Hounslow Barracks addition. In connection existed from Acton Town and the city center.

Once the distance to Hounslow had been taken over by the Piccadilly Line on February 15, 1932 remained between Acton Town and South Acton only one shuttle. The employees referred to it as The Tea Run, as you could set up a tea kettle because of the short travel time in Acton Town and the water boiled in time for the re- arrival. As of June 15, 1958, the shuttle no longer frequented on Sundays and the operation was finally discontinued due to low ridership on 28 February 1959.

The station on the District line no longer exists, consisting of the link to Acton Town, only a few bridge abutments and a part of the railway embankment. The train station is the main railway still in operation today.