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Conway Crescent, GREENFORD, UB6 8JG

Waiting at the semaphore signals before being allowed to continue towards South Greenford

The lines toward Acton viewed from Greenford East Signal Box. Photographed under the supervision of Network Rail local management.

This is one of those odd stretches of railway that it is very difficult for the lay person to understand what its purpose is! It forms the eastern side of the triangle of railways at Greenford and is a Network Rail line that curves off northwards and then eastwards from the line between South Greenford and Greenford stations. It then heads off back towards London paralleling the London Underground Central Line from Greenford past Perivale, Hanger Lane, etc. It is certainly not a route used by scheduled passenger trains, so possibly it is now some means of reversing trains in the Paddington area through 180˚. What is certain is that it is shown as the Great Western Railway's Greenford Curve on the Ordnance Survey's maps of 1920, long before any residential or industrial development took place in the area, and its alignment has dictated the similar curved shape of the more recent road to the east, the residential Conway Crescent. On the skyline in the distance, around the curve towards South Greenford, is a semaphore signal. This photograph was taken from the Lyon Way industrial estate.

This ancient unploughed meadow is grazed from May to October each year. View on open day. See Image for more information about this nature reserve.

The larger trees in this ancient woodland are ash and oak. There are thousands of coppiced hazel trees, also hawthorn, holly and rowan among others.

This grass covered mound in the Little Elms Meadow area of the Perivale Wood nature reserve is a nest of the Yellow Meadow ant, Lasius flavus. An information board in the meadow and the nature trail leaflet say that these nests occur only in old grasslands. They can extend a metre down into the soil.