Metropolitan line from The Ridgeway
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Metropolitan line from The Ridgeway
Image: © Marathon Taken: 23 Dec 2015
Metropolitan trains started running between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge on 4th July 1904. Traffic was at first extremely disappointing. West Harrow halt was opened on 17th November 1913 as a response to house building west of Bessborough Road which had begun in about 1905. Within three years it was handling 40,000 passengers a month. In this view from The Ridgeway West Harrow station is just beyond the bend in the distance. West Harrow Recreation Ground is to the right of the line. For more about West Harrow Recreation Ground see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4773614
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Image Location
Latitude
51.577572
Longitude
-0.358124