Date: 14/05/2023

Mark Hopwood, MD of Great Western Rail, believes the 1970s rolling stock could be brought back to life and replace diesel-powered trains on the Greenford line.

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EXCLUSIVE Mark Hopwood, MD of Great Western Rail, believes the 1970s rolling stock could be brought back to life and replace diesel-powered trains on aGreenford line.

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165135 departing from Greenford for West Ealing, less than three miles away, on 9th February 2019. This view, from the bay between the Central Line platforms, is towards the adjacent 1904 GWR cut-off line to Birmingham on which the Parliamentary service between London Paddington and High Wycombe was recently withdrawn. Note the semaphore signals; the remains of the GWR Greenford station, closed in 1963, are further back behind those. Opened on 30th June 1947 in the last few months of the LPTB, Greenford was the first Underground station to have an escalator that took passengers UP to the platforms and as late as 2014 still had wooden treads. Most LUL escalators were converted to metal treads soon after the terrible fatal King's Cross fire in 1987.
Location: Greenford [LPTB]
Company: West Ruislip Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)
09/02/2019 David Bosher

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