Brentford railway station (1860–1942)

Not to be confused with the current Brentford railway station.

Brentford railway station opened on 1 May 1860 on the Brentford Branch Line (the only line of the Great Western and Brentford Railway Company) which had opened in 1859 from Southall to Brentford Dock.^[1] It stood immediately north of Brentford High Street (the A315 road) on the embankment leading to the viaduct into the dock. The station closed on 22 March 1915^[2] as a wartime economy measure,^[3] re-opened on 12 April 1920^[2] and closed permanently on 4 May 1942. The station was demolished in 1957.

Brentford
Site of Brentford GWR Station in 1961
General information
Location	Brentford, Hounslow England
Grid reference	TQ171772
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western and Brentford Railway Company
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	GWR
Key dates
1 May 1860	Opened
22 March 1915	Wartime economy closure
12 April 1920	Re-opened
4 May 1942	Closed
Location

Proposed reopening

In April 2017, it was proposed that the line could reopen to allow a new link from Southall to Hounslow and possibly down to the planned Old Oak Common station with a new station in Brentford called Brentford Golden Mile.^[4] The proposal suggested the service could be operated by Great Western Railway and could be open by 2020 with a new service from Southall to Brentford and possible later to Old Oak Common.^[5] It was likely that the site would be further up from the original and would have a later extension to the existing Brentford station.^[6]