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Heath Road, HOUNSLOW, TW3 2NJ

The new ticket office stands next to the original station house and entrance.

Hounslow station was opened in 1850 by the London & South Western Railway. Although it has recently had an extensive revamp, the original station buildings have been retained. This view looks up the line towards Isleworth but trains go from either platform to Waterloo, the ones from the down platform on the right proceeding via Kingston.

The locomotive 'North Star', seen on the pub sign, was built by Robert Stephenson & Company in 1837 for the 5ft 6in gauge New Orleans & Carroltown Railroad in the United States. When this venture failed, the engine was purchased by the Great Western Railway, and being modified to run on Brunel's broad gauge it ran as a Directors' special from Paddington to Maidenhead in 1837, thus becoming one of the first trains. The original engine was scrapped at Swindon in 1906, but a full size replica was built at the works in 1925 and can be seen at the GWR Railway Museum, Swindon. Strangely, the pub is opposite Hounslow station, which was opened in 1850 by the London & South Western Railway and was never on the GWR.

The normally busy Whitton Road was devoid of traffic at the time the photograph was taken as a traffic accident behind me had closed off the road.

Train waiting at platform at Hounslow, about to continue its journey westwards (from Waterloo station, London).

It is not often a house gives away its date to the day but one of these houses in Heath Road, Hounslow has on it 'JP 27th August 1868'.

Hounslow station was opened in 1850 by the London & South Western Railway. Although it has recently had an extensive revamp, the original station building has been retained as seen here.

Whitton Road, Hounslow. Centre shot is the Vivaan Indian Restaurant, formerly the North Star pub, as shown here Image