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Description: | The station was opened as Osterley Park & Spring Grove in 1883. Osterley was a farming area at the start of the 20th century. There was little residential development until the Great West Road opened in 1925. This was one of the first dual-carriageway arterial roads in London.
Improved transport attracted light industry, including the Gillette and the Firestone factories. This in turn spurred the construction of numerous housing estates between Hounslow and Osterley and, by 1926, the original station was dealing with a million passengers a year.
When this picture was shot in 1927, the District line was running this section of track.
The station was replaced in 1934 by a new building about 300 metres to the west of the original. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | Oct 1927 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Underground Group Photo Dept | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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