Perivale Halt railway station was a station on the
New North Main Line
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of the
Great Western Railway. It served the London suburb of
Perivale
Perivale () is an area of Greater London, west of Charing Cross. It is the smallest of the seven towns which make up the London Borough of Ealing.
Perivale is mostly residential, with a library, community centre, a number of parks and open ...
from 1904 to 1947,
when it was replaced by
Perivale
Perivale () is an area of Greater London, west of Charing Cross. It is the smallest of the seven towns which make up the London Borough of Ealing.
Perivale is mostly residential, with a library, community centre, a number of parks and open ...
station on the
Central line of the
London Underground
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.
History
The station was opened by the
Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 May 1904, originally being named ''Perivale''.
It had long wooden platforms, and pagoda huts, on an embankment reached by sloping paths west of Horsenden Lane South. The steam "push-and-pull" passenger service ran to
Paddington (Bishop's Road), the line was shared with freight, and express trains to
Birmingham
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(2 hours, non-stop). Until the late 1920s, Perivale was entirely rural, despite its proximity to
Ealing. A similar halt was at before it was modernised by
Network SouthEast
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.
The station closed temporarily on 1 February 1915, reopening on 29 March 1920; and on 10 July 1922 was renamed ''Perivale Halt''. It closed permanently on 15 June 1947,
in advance of the opening of the extension of the
Central line from
North Acton
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to
Greenford
Greenford () is a suburb in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, England, lying west from Charing Cross. It has a population of 46,787 inhabitants, or 62,126 with the inclusion of Perivale.
Greenford is served by Greenford Station (L ...
on 30 June 1947.
See also
*
List of closed railway stations in London
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References
Further reading
* - shows a Lens of Sutton photograph of the station
External links
Perivale Halt on navigable 1945 O.S. map
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Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Ealing
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Perivale