Talk:Kew Bridge railway station (N&SWJR)

Confused

Article says "not to be confused with" Kew Bridge station on the Hounslow Loop. But I am confused and not convinced that the two sets of platforms ran as two stations. There is a blocked off passage under Lionel Road which seems to have connected adjoining platforms of each "station". Even Sub Brit (which is not without mistyping and other errors) labels an image imprecisely "The disused Kew Bridge platforms". Neither of the Kew Bridge station articles gives WP standard sources. This one gives the opening as 1860 without day and month which suggests that a detailed source was not consulted. Maybe there were two stations but no evidence has been adduced. A oddity of Subbrit is that this "station" is listed on closed tube stations as a closed Overground station. Overground might just be stuck into Tube, but these Kew Bridge platforms died sixty odd years ago.--SilasW (talk) 11:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

First, I erred doubly. It wasn't Subbrit, the site I quoted used "Overground " before "London Overground" was invented. But there has been no comment on my doubt that this station was separate from the Hounslow Loop station. Mitchell and Smith's "Kingston and Hounslow Loops" throws further darkness on the matter. It has an extract from the 1st 6" to the mile OS (compiled 1871-83) showing an Old Station in the SW corner of the triangle and says it was used by pax 1853-1866 though N&SWJR trains ceased to call there regularly after 1 Feb 1862 when services were transferred to the station at the eastern corner of the triangle. That does not say it was an N&SWJR station, on other pages the book has "the former N&SWJR or LMS platforms" and both that map and the 25" to the mile of 1935 which the book shows have the eastern corner marked as "Kew Bridge Station". However the book says "The booking office on the N&SWJR platforms was closed on 1 July 1918 and the station demolished in 1920". Alternate NLL trains ran to Kew Bridge until 1940. The 1935 map marks the (eastern) Kew Curve as "S.R."--SilasW (talk) 22:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Course (1962) says that the old station in the SW corner was "Kew" of the N&SWJR and existed 1853-1866 though from 1862 to 1940 the N&SWJR "Kew Bridge" was used.so that seems how it was.--SilasW (talk) 19:17, 21 March 2009 (UTC)