Harefield Road tube station

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Harefield Road
Harefield Road is located in Greater London
Harefield Road
Harefield Road
Location of Harefield Road in Greater London
LocationUxbridge
Local authorityLondon Borough of Hillingdon
Grid referenceTQ060874
OwnerNever built
Number of platforms2
Railway companies
Original companyLondon Underground
Other information
WGS8451°34′34″N 0°28′16″W / 51.5760°N 0.4710°W / 51.5760; -0.4710Coordinates: 51°34′34″N 0°28′16″W / 51.5760°N 0.4710°W / 51.5760; -0.4710
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London Passenger Transport Board[]

Harefield Road was a proposed London Underground station on the western extension of the Central line beyond its current terminus at West Ruislip.

Under the London Passenger Transport Board's 1935–1940 New Works programme, the station would have been built on the existing Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway (GW&GCJR) line between West Ruislip and Denham, the extension's intended terminus.

Like many other new stations built by London Underground in the outskirts of the capital, the construction of the station was intended to stimulate new housing developments in what was a rural part of Middlesex. Works on the extension were postponed during World War II and, after the war, green belt legislation was introduced to limit the expansion of urban areas. The area beyond West Ruislip fell within the designated Metropolitan Green Belt, and as the intended housing developments were no longer allowed the extension was cut back to West Ruislip; it opened in stages in 1947 and 1948.

Represented in OO Gauge by ‘Underground Eric’ via his YouTube channel

Earlier station[]

A signal box existed on it's location by 1920. [1]

The Central line station site, immediately west of the Harvil Road overbridge, was that of an earlier station on the GW&GCJR line. That station opened on 24 September 1928 as Harefield Halt and was renamed South Harefield Halt in May 1929.[2] It was served by shuttle trains forming the main line local service between Uxbridge High Street, Denham and Gerrards Cross. However, the station lay 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Harefield village and the building boom for which the later Central line extension was intended to cater had not occurred; usage was so thin that the halt closed again after traffic on 30 September 1931.[3]

It was marked as disused in 1934,[4] removed in 1935 [5] and marked as disused in 1938,[6] but it was marked as a freight halt in 1948 [7] suggesting some fright use in WW2.

It was completely remove from maps by 1951. [8][9] The small goods yard closed at the end of 1952 and the site is now occupied by a commercial company: it has no rail access. The location of Denham East Junction lies immediately to the west of the old goods yard. No trace remains of the 1928 halt, which was demolished in the 1950s, but the place were the goods yard was had been marked by 2 small triangles of waste land until they were built on in 2001 and 2020-2021.

References[]

  1. ^ "View map: Middlesex IX.SE (includes: Denham; Uxbridge.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk.
  2. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 114. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  3. ^ Butt 1995, p. 215
  4. ^ "View map: Middlesex IX.12 (Ruislip; Uxbridge) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952". maps.nls.uk.
  5. ^ Geographical Publications Limited Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, 106 - Watford (visionofbritain.org.uk)
  6. ^ "View map: Middlesex IX.SE (includes: Denham; Uxbridge.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk.
  7. ^ https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/sheet/new_pop/264_160
  8. ^ "View map: Great Britain. Seventh Series - sheet 160 - London N.W. - A Edition - Ordnance Survey One-inch to the mile maps of Great Britain, Seventh Series, 1952-1970". maps.nls.uk.
  9. ^ "View map: Great Britain. Seventh Series - sheet 160 - London N.W. - A/ Edition - Ordnance Survey One-inch to the mile maps of Great Britain, Seventh Series, 1952-1961". maps.nls.uk.

External links[]

Preceding station   Historical railways   Following station
Line and station open
Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway
West Ruislip
Line and station open
Disused railways
Uxbridge High Street
Line and station closed 		  Great Western Railway
Uxbridge High Street branch 		  West Ruislip
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  Abandoned Plans  
  Proposed Denham Extension  
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