Kew Bridge Triangle
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Kew Bridge Triangle
Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 7 May 2010
This section of track forms the eastern side of the triangle of tracks at Kew Bridge and connects the Hounslow Loop line at New Kew Junction with the Kew East Line to Willesden Junction at Kew East Junction. This view is looking towards Kew East Junction from Lionel Road South. The route is an essential cross-London freight line. The presence of a platform is evidence that this curve once had passenger services. As part of the London and North Western Railway's electrification of the North London Railway's routes from Broad Street to Richmond, a service was inaugurated to Kew Bridge in 1916. My assumption therefore is that this is where those services terminated. The passenger services ceased 1940. Some buildings still existed on the far platform as recently as 2006.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.490861
Longitude
-0.287201