Acton Main Line railway station

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Acton Main Line
Location
Place	Acton
Local authority	London Borough of Ealing
Operations
Station code	AML
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	3
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.115 million
2005/06 *	0.088 million
Transport for London
Zone	3
History
1 February 1868	Station opens as Acton
1 November 1949	Station renamed Acton Main Line
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Acton Main Line from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
UK Railways Portal

Acton Main Line railway station is a National Rail station in Acton in west London.

It is the first National Rail station on the Great Western Main Line out of the terminus at London Paddington. The station is served by local trains operated by First Great Western between Paddington and Greenford. It is in Travelcard Zone 3.

Train services from the station were reduced in 2004 when First Great Western won the franchise from Thames Trains, with no services into London after 22:10, or westward after 22:52. Trains run about every half hour in the daytime, with no service on Sundays. It is the only station between Paddington and Heathrow Airport that is not served by the Heathrow Connect service.

The station will be served far more regularly when Crossrail line 1 is built; with around eight trains an hour continuing past Paddington on the western branch.

A renovation of the station is planned for May 2008.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] History

Opened by the Great Western Railway The station passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways although trains of the Intercity Sector passed through on the Great Western Main Line.

[edit] References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.  ISBN 0 906899 99 0

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Acton Main Line railway station from National Rail

• Acton Main Line railway station is at coordinates 51°31′01″N 0°16′01″W / 51.5169, -0.2669 (Acton Main Line railway station)Coordinates: 51°31′01″N 0°16′01″W / 51.5169, -0.2669 (Acton Main Line railway station)

Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Ealing Broadway toward Maidenhead or Heathrow Airport		Crossrail		Paddington toward Abbey Wood or Shenfield

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