Brentford railway station
Brentford | |
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Brentford Location of Brentford in Greater London | |
Location | Brentford |
Local authority | London Borough of Hounslow |
Managed by | South West Trains |
Owner | Network Rail |
Station code | BFD |
DfT category | E |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Fare zone | 4 |
National Rail annual entry and exit | |
2011–12 | 1.386 million[1] |
2012–13 | 1.440 million[1] |
2013–14 | 1.528 million[1] |
2014–15 | 1.700 million[1] |
2015–16 | 1.926 million[1] |
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WGS84 | 51°29′15″N 0°18′35″W / 51.4875°N 0.3096°WCoordinates: 51°29′15″N 0°18′35″W / 51.4875°N 0.3096°W |
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Brentford is a railway station in the London Borough of Hounslow, west London. It is on the Hounslow Loop Line and in Travelcard Zone 4. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains. It is the main station for Brentford F.C.'s Griffin Park, 400 metres east. The modest High Street of the suburb of Brentford characterized by wide-ranging businesses and light industrial parks is 300 metres south-east.
Services
The typical off-peak service from the station in trains per hour is:
- 4 direct to Waterloo via Chiswick
- 2 circuitously to Waterloo via Hounslow and Richmond
- 2 to Weybridge
The Sunday service is one train per hour each way: London Waterloo – Woking and the same serving Waterloo, Brentford, Twickenham, Kingston, Wimbledon and Waterloo and all intermediate stops each way.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Kew Bridge | South West Trains Hounslow Loop Line |
Syon Lane | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Feltham | Anglia Railways London Crosslink |
West Hampstead |
History
Brentford railway station was opened in 1849 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in a period of mainly passenger use – an unlinked perpendicular line, the Brentford Dock line operated between 1859 and 1964, mainly for goods and waste transfer. The Dock Line between 1860 and 1942 ran a passenger service into passenger terminus Brentford (GWR) railway station.[2]
Between 1950 and 1980 Brentford station was named Brentford Central station. When multi-national pharmaceutical and retail company Glaxo Smith Kline opened its Global HQ 500 metres west, GSK House in 2001 after two years of construction,[3] it contributed towards modernisation of the station.
Connections
London Buses routes 195 and E8 – E denotes Ealing – serve the station. Bus E2 stops nearby.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
- ↑ "Station name: Brentford Dock". Disused Stations. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
- ↑ GSK House, London - Building #257 Skyscrapernews.com Retrieved 2017-05-07
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brentford railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Brentford railway station from National Rail