Brentford railway station


Brentford is a railway station in the town of Brentford, in Hounslow, London. It is on the Hounslow Loop Line and in Travelcard Zone 4. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. It is the main station for Brentford F.C.'s Griffin Park, 400 metres east. The modest High Street of the suburb of Brentford characterized by wide-ranging businesses and light industrial parks is 300 metres south-east.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station in trains per hour is:
The Sunday service is one train per hour each way: London Waterloo – Woking and the same serving Waterloo, Brentford, Twickenham, Kingston, Wimbledon and Waterloo and all intermediate stops each way.

History

Brentford railway station was opened in 1849 by the London and South Western Railway in a period of mainly passenger use – an unlinked perpendicular line, the Brentford Dock line operated between 1859 and 1964, mainly for goods and waste transfer. The Dock Line between 1860 and 1942 ran a passenger service into passenger terminus Brentford railway station.
Between 1950 and 1980 Brentford station was named Brentford Central station. When multi-national pharmaceutical and retail company Glaxo Smith Kline opened its Global HQ 500 metres west, GSK House in 2001 after two years of construction, it contributed towards modernisation of the station.
Between 22 May 2000 and 28 September 2002, the station was served by the London Crosslink service provided by Anglia Railways.

Connections

routes 195 and E8 – E denotes Ealing – serve the station. Bus E2 stops nearby.