TQ2178 : Stamford Brook Underground station, Greater London
taken 6 years ago, near to Chiswick, Hounslow, England
Stamford Brook Underground station, Greater London
Opened in 1912 by the London & South Western Railway on the line from Richmond to Hammersmith, the LSWR withdrew trains after only 4 years leaving Metropolitan District Railway trains to provide the service. The station is now part of the London Underground network. The right hand platform was added in 1932, in a different style.
View west towards Turnham Green, Richmond and Heathrow. Like 55% of the London Underground network, this part is actually overground.
An English Heritage blue plaque on this redbrick building at 110 Chiswick Lane South (now the Mawson Arms) announces that the poet, essayist and translator Alexander Pope (1688-1744) "lived in this row, Mawson's Buildings 1716-1719."