Trains at Acton Town (Tube) - 27/10/2025

The 283rd video of my train spotting adventures. ----- This video follows on from the Rayners Lane video, heading south on the Piccadilly Line to Acton Town tube station. A moderate, 4-platform metro/Underground station, it was opened as "Mill Hill Park" on the 1st July 1879 by the District Railway (now the District line) on its extension from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway. - On the 1st May 1883 the District Railway opened a branch from Acton Town to the now defunct Hounslow Town station, which developed into the Heathrow branch. On the 23rd June 1903 the District Railway tracks extended north of Acton Town to a new station at Park Royal & Twyford Abbey which became the first of the Underground's surface lines to use electric traction instead of steam, with the Acton Town – Ealing Common section also electrified. The existing deep tube lines, (City and South London Railway, Waterloo & City Railway (now Waterloo & City line) and Central London Railway) had always been electrically powered. Services on the Hounslow branch (now the Heathrow branch) and to Central London were electrified on the 13th June 1905 and 1st July 1905 respectively. - On the 13th June 1905, a passenger service began on a short branch to South Acton. A short fifth platform for the single car train of the South Acton branch was provided to the north of the eastbound island platform. At first the service ran to Hounslow West and to Uxbridge but it was later reduced to a shuttle between Acton Town and South Acton on the 15th February 1932. The South Acton branch was closed on the 28th February 1959 due to low usage; its platform at Acton Town has not been removed and is still visible. Much of the branch remains including a bridge support on the south side of Bollo Lane. - On the 4th July 1932, the Piccadilly line was extended west from its original terminus at Hammersmith and shared the route with the District line to Ealing Common. From Ealing Common to South Harrow, the District line was replaced by the Piccadilly line, and from that date, District line trains from Acton Town ran only either to Hounslow West or to Ealing Broadway. On the 9th January 1933 Piccadilly line trains, sharing with the District line, began serving Northfields on the Hounslow branch, and their service was extended to Hounslow West on the 13th March 1933, but Piccadilly line trains did not call at South Ealing until 1935. District line services on the Hounslow branch were withdrawn on the 9th and 10th October 1964 after which operations were provided by the Piccadilly line alone. ----- Filmed on the: District Line Piccadilly Line ----- Services seen: LU) District Line services towards Ealing Broadway via Ealing Common, Central/West London, and Upminster via Earls Court, Whitechapel and Barking. - Piccadilly Line services towards Rayners Lane/Uxbridge via Ealing Common, or Arnos Grove/Cockfosters via Earls Court and Piccadilly Circus. ----- Trains seen: LU) 1973 Stock, S7 Stock ----- Please leave a like, comment or even subscribe if you enjoy my content. Thanks for watching :)