Kew Bridge railway station

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Kew Bridge

Location

Place

Kew Bridge

Local authority

London Borough of Hounslow

Operations

Station code

KWB

Managed by

South West Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.235 million

2005/06 *

0.271 million

Transport for London

Zone

History

Key dates

Opened 1849

Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kew Bridge from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

UK Railways Portal

Kew Bridge railway station is in the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains.

1 Overview
2 Proposals
3 Service
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Overview

The main station building is not used, and access is instead via a side walk-way. The rundown buildings can give the impression that the station is closed. There was a campaign in 2004 to have the station renovated, but it came to nothing. The redevelopment of the nearby Lionel Road site may lead to some kind of overhaul of the station.

Between 1862 and 1940 there was another Kew Bridge station on the North & South Western Junction Railway in close proximity. The line it stood on remains today as a goods only route ^[1].

[edit] Proposals

Hounslow Council have proposed that the Hounslow Loop Line should be included in the Crossrail project. This would involve a spur off the Great Western Main Line, with trains running down the North London Line to South Acton and then over a connecting freight line just to the north of Kew Bridge station and then on to Brentford. Trains would not actually stop at Kew Bridge under the proposal, althrough it has been suggested a new station may be constructed in the vicinity ^[2].

[edit] Service

The typical off-peak service from the station is six trains per hour to London Waterloo — four direct via Putney and Clapham Junction, and two via Brentford and Richmond — and two trains per hour to Weybridge.