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Kingsley Road, HOUNSLOW, TW3 1NP

Opposite the bus garage.

Effectively the forecourt of Hounslow bus garage, the bus station now mostly comprises this layover space, which I remember being occupied by covered bus stands in the late 1990s. Now, only two stands remain in the bus station (just out of frame to the right), many services observing stops on London Road and High Street instead.

The entrance to the large shed, most of which is hidden from public view by the surrounding buildings.

Most of the garage is hidden from view, behind private houses.

Curved buildings are a distinctive feature of the garage complex.

Opened in 1883 by the Metropolitan District Railway as the terminus of the line from Central London, this station closed in 1886 when the line was diverted to Hounslow Barracks (now Hounslow West). It reopened in 1903 only to close permanently in 1909. View north east at the site. The main building was on the corner of the road opposite and the station up on a viaduct that ended abruptly at the road - the original plan having been to carry on over the road and join the town's main station. This never happened so the station was left on a dead end spur. The site became a bus station in 1912 - and still was in 2018.

The actual garage is set back off to the right.

Seen from the bus station, some of whose stands have been demolished and turned into a layover area (as evidenced by the patches of slightly differently shaded concrete in the left foreground).