Perivale Halt railway station

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Perivale Halt railway station was a station on the New North Main Line of the Great Western Railway. It served the London suburb of Perivale from 1904 to 1947,^[1] when it was replaced by Perivale station on the Central line of the London Underground.

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 May 1904, originally being named Perivale.^[2] 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 (2 hours, non-stop). Until the late 1920s, Perivale was entirely rural, despite its proximity to Ealing. A similar halt was at South Greenford before it was modernised by Network SouthEast.

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,^[2] in advance of the opening of the extension of the Central line from North Acton to Greenford on 30 June 1947.

See also

• List of closed railway stations in London

References

Further reading

• Connor, J.E.; Halford, B.L. The forgotten Stations of Greater London. Connor and Butler. p. 77. ISBN 0-947699-17-1. - shows a Lens of Sutton photograph of the station

External links

• Perivale Halt on navigable 1945 O.S. map

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Greenford Line closed- station open		Great Western Railway New North Main Line		Twyford Abbey Halt (1904-1911) Brentham for North Ealing and Greystoke Park (1911-1947) Line and station closed
South Greenford Line closed, station open