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PHOTO WEST ACTON UNDERGROUND STATION (CENTRAL LINE) . IN 1917 THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY BUILT THE SHEPHERDS BUSH - EALING BROADWAY BRANCH FOR FREIGHT. THE CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY (CLR) WISHED TO EXTEND ITS SERVICES FROM ITS SHEPHERDS BUSH STATION OVER A NEW CHORD TO THE GWR BRANCH AND IN AUGUST 1920 SERVICES TO EALING BROADWAY BEGAN WITH THE ONLY INTERMEDIATE STATION AT EAST ACTON. HOWEVER IN NOVEMBER 1923 A NEW STATION WAS BUILT BY THE GWR AT WEST ACTON (AND ANOTHER AT NORTH ACTON) FOR THE CLR. IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THE GWRS STEAM-HAULED FREIGHT TRAINS AND THE CLRS HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRIC SUBURBAN TRAINS DID NOT MIX EASILY SO IT WAS DECIDED TO BUILD SEGREGATED GWR FREIGHT TRACKS (COMPLETED IN 1938) PARALLEL TO THE CENTRAL LINE TRACKS AND AS PART OF THE LPTBS 1935-40 NEW WORKS PROGRAMME BUILD A NEW STATION FOR THE CENTRAL LINE AT WEST ACTON. THE NEW STATION WAS BUILT BY THE GWR FOR THE CENTRAL LINE AND APPROVED BY THE LPTB. IT WAS DESIGNED BY THE GWRS ASSISTANT ARCHITECT BRIAN LEWIS IN ACCORD WITH THE MODERNE STYLE CURRENTLY IN VOGUE FOR NEW/REBUILT LTB STATIONS AND THE NEW WEST ACTON OPENED IN NOVEMBER 1940. IT WAS THE ONLY LEWIS DESIGN FOR THE EALING BROADWAY BRANCH AND THE â�ˌWEST LONDON ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME WHICH INCLUDED THE ACTON â�� GREENFORD LINE TO BE COMPLETED TO LEWISS ORIGINAL DESIGN. THE STATION IS LISTED GRADE II. PICTURED IS COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) H LLEWELYNPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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PHOTO SIZE SIZE 6 X 4 inches
CONDITION: SOME CROPPING OR WHITE LINES TOP/BOTTOM MAY OCCUR DUE TO PHOTO RATIO
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