Old Oak Common Depot
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Old Oak Common TMD was a traction maintenance depot located west of London Paddington, in Old Oak Common. The depot codes were OC for the diesel depot and OO for the carriage shed. In steam days the s
First Great Western InterCity 125 leaving empty stock for service to London Paddington.
GWR 4700 Class 2-8-0 express freight loco 4706 being serviced at Old Oak Common on 15 December 1963
Steam locomotives near the coaling plant, September 1956
The first-of-class (Class 52) D1000 Western Enterprise, inside the roundhouse in 1964
Acton–Northolt line
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The Acton–Northolt line, otherwise known as the New North Main Line, is a railway line in Greater London, England. Built between 1903 and 1906, it runs from the Great Western Main Line at Old Oak Comm
End of the line near North Acton, curtailed for HS2 works. Photo view from Victoria Road bridge in June 2020
The GWR Greenford station in 2001. The forecourt of the surviving platform and part of the platform itself are now built upon by a 1990s business park.
The remaining wooden escalators at Greenford in June 2006, removed in 2014 and replaced with an inclinator. The wooden escalator leading up to the platforms, was the last of its kind in use on the London Underground.
Sidings at the former Guinness Brewery in July 2016, looking west