Place Perivale Pre-grouping Great Western Railway 1 May 1904 (1904-05-01) Opened as Perivale Platforms in use 2 | Grid reference TQ162833 Post-grouping Great Western Railway Original company Great Western Railway | |
Area London Borough of Ealing Similar Coombe Road railway st, Brentford railway station, Trumpers Crossing Halte rail, Harlesden (Midland) railway st, Burdett Road railway st | ||
Perivale Halt railway station was a station on the New North Main Line of the Great Western Railway. It served the London suburb of Perivale from 1904 to 1947, when it was replaced by a station on the Central line of the London Underground.
History
The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 May 1904, originally being named Perivale. It had long wooden platforms, and pagoda huts, on an embankment reached by sloping paths west of Horsenden Lane South. The steam "push-and-pull" passenger service ran to Paddington (Bishop's Road), the line was shared with freight, and express trains to Birmingham (2 hours, non-stop). Until the late 1920s, Perivale was entirely rural, despite its proximity to Ealing. A similar halt was at South Greenford before it was modernised by Network SouthEast.
The station closed temporarily on 1 February 1915, reopening on 29 March 1920; and on 10 July 1922 was renamed Perivale Halt. It closed permanently on 15 June 1947, after the extension of the Central line to Ruislip.