Osterley Park and Spring Grove

Piccadilly Line

OSTERLEY PARK & SPRING GROVE

(1883-1934)

Chris Green offered the following explanation as to why the station was moved:

"At the time of the station's original building in Thornbury Road (Osterley), the A4 Great
West Road did not exist, being part of the 'arterial' road building programme of the 1920/30's.
Therefore I suppose you could say that Thornbury Rd was as good a place as any to
site it, what with Osterley Park main gates only being 50 yards away.
Also, without an intermediate stop, the District Railway management may have considered
Boston Manor to Hounslow East to be too long a run.

I'm just supposing now, but it could just be that the park's owner (Earl of
Jersey) may have swayed the original siting.
With the coming of the new road, I presume someone must have come up with the bright
idea of shifting the station a few hundred yards to make it more useful.
Could this have been the first 'park and ride'? "

View from the new Osterley station. The distance between the two sets of platforms is minimal.

Looking westward.

View of the old platfoms from Thornbury Road.

The same view in 2006, a quarter of a century or so later. Most of the westbound platform part of station building, seen at the left of the preceding photo, has been demolished. The bricked up large arch on the right, was the portal to the overhead access walkway between the platforms.

Further photos of this now demolished part of the station can be found here: www.disused-stations.org.uk

The station building. Both of the buildings here were part of the station. The right hand building still has the board space in situ where the station name was. The central door arch of the left hand building was the station entrance. The bookshop part was a shop even when the station was open.

(photo: 2006)