Brentford railway station opened in 1860 on the Brentford Branch Line (the only line of the Great Western and Brentford Railway Company) which had opened in 1859 from to

Brentford Dock Brentford Dock in Brentford, west London, was a major trans-shipment point between the Great Western Railway (GWR) and barges on the River Thames. The building of Brentford Dock was started in 1855 and it was formally opened in 1859. The former ...

. It stood immediately north of Brentford High Street (the A315 road) on the embankment leading to the viaduct into the dock. The station closed on 22 March 1915 as a wartime economy measure, re-opened on 12 April 1920 and closed permanently in 1942. The station was demolished in 1957.

Proposed reopening

In April 2017, it was proposed that the line could reopen to allow a new link from Southall to Hounslow and possibly down to the planned Old Oak Common station with a new station in Brentford called Brentford Golden Mile. The proposal suggested the service could be operated by

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

and could be open by 2020 with a new service from Southall to Brentford and possible later to Old Oak Common. It was likely that the site would be further up from the original and would have a later extension to the existing Brentford station.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brentford railway station (1860-1942) Buildings and structures demolished in 1957 Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1860 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1915 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1920 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1942 Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Hounslow