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Windermere Avenue, WEMBLEY, HA9 8SB

The trackwork here is actually shared between Network Rail's West Coast Main Line to the left and London Underground's Bakerloo Line to the right. A southbound Bakerloo Line train has just left Harrow & Wealdstone station and is approaching South Kenton station. For those that need to know such things a zoom into the photograph shows the trailing unit is No. 3534. The image was taken from the Conway Gardens footbridge.

View eastward from my favourite path in Northwick Park - see Image and others. The 10.10 'Merseyside Express' from Liverpool Lime Street is headed by the yet to be rebuilt (in 6/51) Royal Scot Class 6P 4-6-0 No. 46164 'The Artists' Rifleman', which was built 9/30 and eventually withdrawn 12/62.

What is now Northwick Park was the fields of Sheepcote Farm until the 20th century. The park is named after the Lord of the Manor of Harrow Lord Northwick, the largest landowner in the district in the early 19th century. He lived at Northwick Park, a mansion at Blockley in Worcestershire. Lord Northwick enclosed the commons in the Harrow area with great enthusiasm. This added to the suffering of the agricultural labourers of the area who faced a multitude of other problems. Lord Northwick was probably the most hated man in the area and it is strange that a park which is now of benefit to all commemorates somebody who tried to deny local people access to this land. Sheepcote Farm was the home of Thomas Grimwade, farmer and inventor of desiccated milk, which was shipped out to Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. In 1905, the Harrow School Land Trust obtained most of Sheepcote Farm to prevent it being developed. In 1936, Middlesex County Council and Wembley Urban District Council purchased the Northwick Park Estate as additional open space for the people of Wembley. This view is near the south-east corner, just round the corner from South Kenton station.

"Postal" EMU 325005 heads north on the down slow line.

Another unequal contest as a northbound Virgin Trains "Pendolino" passes a TfL Bakerloo Line service on the approach to Kenton.

View northward, to the bridge carrying the (electrified) LPTB Metropolitan Lines from Baker Street etc. to Harrow-on-the-Hill etc. (Northwick Park station being on the embankment just off to the left), also the two non-electrified tracks of the ex-GC main line from Marylebone. To the left of the WCML lines are the ex-LNW Watford DC electric lines - also used by LPTB Bakerloo Line trains, South Kenton station being just off the picture. Dashing up to Wembley Central is an Up Cup Final Special, headed by Rebuilt Royal Scot Class 7P 4-6-0 No. 46148 'The Manchester Regiment' (built 12/27, named 'Lady of the Lake' until 10/35, rebuilt 7/54, withdrawn 11/64). (Newcastle United beat Manchester City, 3:1).

What is now Northwick Park was the fields of Sheepcote Farm until the 20th century. The park is named after the Lord of the Manor of Harrow Lord Northwick, the largest landowner in the district in the early 19th century. He lived at Northwick Park, a mansion at Blockley in Worcestershire. Lord Northwick enclosed the commons in the Harrow area with great enthusiasm. This added to the suffering of the agricultural labourers of the area who faced a multitude of other problems. Lord Northwick was probably the most hated man in the area and it is strange that a park which is now of benefit to all commemorates somebody who tried to deny local people access to this land. Sheepcote Farm was the home of Thomas Grimwade, farmer and inventor of desiccated milk, which was shipped out to Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. In 1905, the Harrow School Land Trust obtained most of Sheepcote Farm to prevent it being developed. In 1936, Middlesex County Council and Wembley Urban District Council purchased the Northwick Park Estate as additional open space for the people of Wembley. This view is at the south-east corner by the entrance from Nathans Road. It is just round the corner from South Kenton station.