St. Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs was a railway station on the

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on the border of North Kensington and Hammersmith & Fulham, West London. It was situated on an embankment next to North Pole Road, close to the road's junction with

Wood Lane Wood Lane (A219, formerly A40) is a street in London. It runs north from Shepherd's Bush, under the Westway (A40) past Wormwood Scrubs where it meets Scrubs Lane. The road is wholly in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham ( W12 postal ...

and near

Wormwood Scrubs Wormwood Scrubs, known locally as The Scrubs (or simply Scrubs), is an open space in Old Oak Common located in the north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London. It is the largest open space in the borough, ...

in what is now the

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London borough in West London and which also forms part of Inner London. The borough was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham. The borou ...

. The station was located on two different sites during its history. The original station building and platforms, constructed mostly of wood, opened on 1 August 1871 with the name Wormwood Scrubs, alternatively spelt Wormwood Scrubbs, but closed on 1 November 1893 and the station was resited further north, to the north side of North Pole Road. It had been renamed St. Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs on 1 August 1892. Under that name it remained operational until it was struck by an

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on the 3rd Oct 1940, and destroyed by fire. The second station, also of wooden construction, burned away and its remains were demolished. Most electric trains on the present-day West London Line stop near the site of the former station to change current collection method, as the line to the north is electrified by AC

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s and to the south by DC

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. In 2009 local authority leaders lobbied the government to build a new station a short distance to the north of the disused one, however, such plans have not materialised.

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* (site record of the 1871 station) * (site record of the 1893 station) Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Former West London Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1893 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1893 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1940 Buildings and structures in Notting Hill North Kensington 1871 establishments in England 1940 disestablishments in England {{DEFAULTSORT:St Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs railway station