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A very enjoyable afternoon spent at Hanwell station on the Great Western Mainline where we see plenty of services from Great Western Railway, TFL Rail, Heathrow Express and a light engine move from DB Cargo UK.
Hanwell is one of the smaller stations located along this route and in terms of passenger numbers its also one of the quietest. Last year the station handled use over 300 thousand passengers. The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1838, but the station wasn't actually opened until december of that year. When the station was first opened it had the name Hanwell but was renamed to Hanwell and Elthorne in 1896 on April 1st. It retained this name until 1974 when the station was renamed back to Hanwell. The current station is in a very poor condition but has such been listed as a grade 2 listed building by English Heritage, the building itself is from 1875/1877 when it was rebuilt. The southern entrance to the station was closed in the middle half of the 1970's and wasn't opened again until 2014 when the local council and Transport For London funded the rebuilding of said entrance.
My next station is going to be West Ealing.
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