West Acton tube station

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West Acton is a London Underground station in West Acton, London. It is on the Ealing Broadway branch of the Central line, between Ealing Broadway and North Acton stations. It is its only intermediate station in the branch. The station is a Grade II listed building.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located in London fare zone 3. The station is close to North Ealing station on the Piccadilly line, 550 metres away at the western end of Queens Drive.

History

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The Great Western Railway (GWR) built the Ealing Broadway branch (the western part of the former Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway) and opened it for freight trains in April 1917, and the Central London Railway trains used the line from 3 August 1920.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> West Acton and Template:Stl were built and owned by the GWR, and both opened on 5 November 1923.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

GWR steam freight trains also ran through West Acton until 1938, when the London Underground tracks were segregated further east, through East Acton station, and to the west of North Acton station.

The current station, replacing the original building, was designed by the Great Western Railway, on behalf of London Transport, as part of the LPTB's 1935-40 New Works Programme improvements and extensions to the Central line. The design was by the GWR's architect Brian Lewis and it was completed by November 1940.<ref>Underground Architecture: David Lawrence: Capital Transport: Harrow: 1994: p144</ref>