Perivale Halt

Perivale Halt railway station was a station on the New North Main Line of the Great Western Railway.

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 May 1904, originally being named Perivale. It had long wooden platforms, and pagoda huts, on an embankment reached by sloping paths west of Horsenden Lane South.

The steam "push-and-pull" passenger service ran to Paddington (Bishop’s Road), the line was shared with freight, and express trains to Birmingham (2 hours, non-stop). Until the late 1920s, Perivale was entirely rural, despite its proximity to Ealing. A similar halt was at South Greenford before it was modernised by Network SouthEast.

The station closed temporarily on 1 February 1915, reopening on 29 March 1920; and on 10 July 1922 was renamed Perivale Halt. It closed permanently on 15 June 1947, after the extension of the Central line to Ruislip.

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Perivale

Until the 18th century Perivale was called Little Greenford or Greenford Parva.

Perivale formed part of Greenford Urban District from 1894 to 1926, and was then absorbed by the Municipal Borough of Ealing. Before the residential building expansion of the 1930s, the fields of Perivale were used to grow hay for the working horses of Victorian London, a scene described in the ending of John Betjeman’s poem ’Return to Ealing’: "...And a gentle gale from Perivale/blows up the hayfield scent."

Although now mainly residential, there are some office blocks and parades of shops. Perivale has two golf courses: Ealing Golf Club and Perivale Golf Course. The BBC Archives are in Perivale.

Perivale is one of the settings of Anthony Trollope’s novel The Belton Estate (1865).

The Great Western Railway opened "Perivale Halt" in 1904 but it was closed when the current London Underground station was opened on 30 June 1947. It was designed in 1938 by Brian Lewis, later Chief Architect to the Great Western Railway, but completion was delayed by the Second World War. The finished building was modified by the architect Frederick Francis Charles Curtis. In July 2011 the station was one of 16 London Underground stations that were made a Grade II listed building.

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Brentham Garden Suburb in Ealing was the first garden suburb to be built on ‘Co-partnership’ principles and was an inspiration for the later, larger and more famous Hampstead Garden Suburb. This photograph was taken looking across Brentham Way to the corner with Fowler’s Walk (2014) Credit: Geograph/Marathon TUM image id: 1622712125 Licence:	Junction of Argyle Road with Pitshanger Lane (1902) TUM image id: 1570708154 Licence:	Conway Crescent Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1566914917 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Eaton Rise, W5 Old London postcard TUM image id: 1633095702 Licence:	Ridding Lane with Sudbury Hill station (2017) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1573253031 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Fiveways - the junction of Scotch Common and Argyle Road (1902) Early in the twentieth century parts of Ealing were still very rural and this scene was taken in 1902 at a spot known locally at that time as Fiveways. The houses in the distance are in Kent Gardens and are some of the few which were constructed by Henry de Bruno Austin as part of Castle Hill Estate before he went bankrupt. Credit: G. Fryer TUM image id: 1630972751 Licence:	A postcard of Harrow Road in Sudbury, c.1910, showing Crabs House on the right and Sudbury Park Farm on the left. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1489624135 Licence:	Horsenden Lane South (1910) TUM image id: 1501000405 Licence:

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