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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Crescent, Acton Vale, and Uxbridge Road (Shepherd's Bush) station, was opened by the Southall, Ealing & Shepherd's Bush … from Acton to catch the early trains at Uxbridge Road station, with through tickets for tram and train. Birch … the G.W.R. did not open Acton, later Acton main line, station until 1868. 50 Interested at first chiefly in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Metropolitan Electric Supply Co.'s generating station employing 320; Waxlow Road had two, employing 1,190, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and 600 by 1936. Playing fields of 6 a. near West Acton station had been acquired by 1936. 58 After the Second World …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were built c. 1870 soon after the opening of the mainline station. Middle-class housing proved difficult to let, … Royal Society and offered for building as the South Acton station estate, where the first plots were bought quickly in … West of Acton Green and adjacent to the District line station, Fairlawn Park was planned in 1880 but approval for …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… electricity, buying the Wales Farm Road works in 1913. A station in Southfield Road, on land bought by the council in … broke up a riot at the King's Arms in 1837. 30 There was a station in 1845 31 and thereafter one remained at or near the … and from the 1870s behind the local board offices. A fire station with a watch tower, and a mortuary at the rear, was …