Brentford railway station

Brentford is a railway station in the town of Brentford, in Hounslow, London. It is on the Hounslow Loop Line and in Travelcard Zone 4. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. 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.

View eastward in 1961

Brentford
Brentford Location of Brentford in Greater London
Location	Brentford
Local authority	London Borough of Hounslow
Managed by	South Western Railway
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	BFD
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2014–15	1.700 million[1]
2015–16	1.926 million[1]
2016–17	1.858 million[1]
2017–18	1.768 million[1]
2018–19	1.763 million[1]
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51.4875°N 0.3096°W / 51.4875; -0.3096
London transport portal

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
Kew Bridge		South Western Railway Hounslow Loop Line		Syon Lane
	Historical railways
Feltham		Anglia Railways London Crosslink		West Hampstead

History

See also: Hounslow Loop Line

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.

Between 22 May 2000 and 28 September 2002, the station was served by the London Crosslink service provided by Anglia Railways.

Connections

London Buses routes 195 and E8 – E denotes Ealing – serve the station. Bus E2 stops nearby.

References

1. "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. "Station name: Brentford Dock". Disused Stations. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
3. GSK House, London - Building #257 Skyscrapernews.com Retrieved 2017-05-07

External links

• Train times and station information for Brentford railway station from National Rail