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Woodstock Road, LONDON, W4 1EE

Part of the later phase of development of the Bedford Park Estate, from around 1890 to 1900. An oddity of this section of Woodstock Road is that the boundary between Hounslow and Ealing Boroughs runs along the garden front wall, so the houses on the left are not in the same Borough as the street.

Late 1930s flats development.

On the corner of Blandford Road, just outside the original area of development of the estate.

Bedford Park Estate. Looking west from Woodstock Road.

It now appears as an empty curved scar across the map, but when it was first built in 1858 this, the Hammersmith Branch of the North & South Western Junction Railway (NSWJR), was the only main man-made feature in an otherwise rural and agricultural landscape. The NSWJR was originally built to connect the London and North Western Railway at Willesden Junction with the London and South Western Railway at Old Kew Junction. This Hammersmith branch from Acton was never a success, and whatever traffic it was designed to take rapidly disappeared as other railway lines built better connections to the centre of London. The passenger service was withdrawn during the First World War, at the start of 1917, and never reinstated. Freight services lingered on, serving a coal and asphalt depot, until 1965, when the track was lifted. Today this section of the old route is a secure private car park. For a view in the opposite direction, from a point in the distance, please see Alex's Image

Emlyn Gardens flats to the right with the Factory Quarter (former C.A.V. site) development behind.

At No.56 Woodstock Road, listed Grade II.

VR cipher pillar box in Bedford Park Estate.