Acton Central railway station

Acton Central is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, situated between South Acton and Template:Stl stations in London fare zone 3.

The station is located at the point where Mildmay line trains switch their power supply from overhead line equipment (25 kV AC) to third rail shoes (750 V DC), or vice versa, depending on direction of travel (overhead line is used to Stratford, while third rail is used to Richmond).

History

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The Victorian Super Outer Circle route. Acton Central station is on the lower left, to the north of South Acton station

The station was opened as Acton on 1 August 1853 by the North and South Western Junction Railway (N&SWJR), but was renamed Acton Central on 1 November 1925. The N&SWJR was leased jointly to the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), the Midland Railway (MR) and the North London Railway (NLR) from 1871, but only the NLR operated passenger trains on the N&SWJR until operation of the NLR (and thus of the N&SWJR also) was taken over by the LNWR in 1909. Under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the LNWR and MR amalgamated (together with some others) at the start of 1923 to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which then absorbed both the NLR and the N&SWJR. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

Between 1875 and 1902 it was connected with Template:Rws via the Dudding Hill line, which branches off the North London line between Acton Central and Willesden Junction. Harlesden (Midland) railway station was the next stop on the line north. The Dudding Hill line is still open today, but only carries freight.

Acton Central station was named for closure by the 1963 Beeching Report, also known as the Beeching Axe.

Acton Central was in Zone 2 until 2 January 2008.

In 2011, the platforms were lengthened to allow longer trains.

Passenger volume

Passenger volume at Acton Central

	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Entries and exits	1,753,806	727,052	1,332,790	1,499,036

Services

All services at Acton Central are operated as the Mildmay line of the London Overground using Template:Brc EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• Four trains per hour to Template:Stn via Template:Stn
• Four trains per hour to Template:Stn

During the peak hours, the service is increased up to 5 tph in each direction.

Connections

London Buses routes 70, 207 and 218 and SL8, and night routes N7, N207 and N266 serve the station.

External links

• Train times and station information for Acton Central railway station from National Rail
• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06 Template:Webarchive
• BBC News article
• Map from BBC article
• Grid reference