The platform at Harrow & Wealdstone where the services to/from Stanmore Village used to run. To get to Harrow & Wealdstone, the line had to take a northwesterly curve at its southern end. This prevented trains from running through to central London (they were facing in the wrong direction). Surely contributory to the line's demise.

(photo: c.1981)

Harrow & Wealdstone.

(photo: c.1981)

Looking in the opposite direction from the two photos above at Harrow & Wealdstone's distinctive station clock. The platform that served the Stanmore branch still remains unused, although a small section of it under the footbridge has been paved to allow a short-cut across it from the ticket office to platform 6.

(photo: May 2008)

The location in Christchurch Avenue where the bridge carrying the line used to span the road.
There is still a dip in the road where it used to pass beneath the bridge but it is not as significant as it once was:

I grew up up near this railway in the fifties...there was a large dip under the Christchurch Ave bridge which used to fill with water to several feet deep after heavy rains making the road impassable to traffic. The road level is now considerably raised. The low-bridge RLH class double-decker bus on route 230 from Rayners Lane to Northwick Park station was employed to negotiate this bridge.

(Mike Moray, March 2012)

A link to a photo showing the bridge in its operational days is here.

(photo: Oct 2008)

Part of the track bed between Harrow & Wealdstone and Belmont. The telegraph pole no longer exists.

(photo: c.1981)

Looking south at the rebuilt bridge carrying Kenton Lane over the route of the line just south of Belmont station.

(photo: Mar 2008)

Closed in 1964, these are the remains of Belmont station in about 1980 or so, looking south. All evidence of the station has been buried beneath a car park now. The path of the line continues northward for a distance.

(photo: c.1981)

For further photos and info about Belmont station, see www.disused-stations.org.uk

North of Belmont station, looking back in its direction.

(phto: Oct 2008)

An old fence post still in situ.

(photo: Oct 2008)

Much of the route between Belmont and Stanmore Village has been built on now. This is the site of Stanmore Village station - the arrows indicate the two edges of the rear of what remains of the station building. The passenger tracks and platform were located where the houses are on the left hand side, the goods shed and track were located where the road is now, and the coal yard and tracks to the right of the buildings on the right (out of shot).

(photo: Oct 2008)