The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 May 1904, originally being named Perivale.[2] It had long wooden platforms, and pagoda huts, on an embankment reached by sloping paths west of Horsenden Lane South. The steam "push-and-pull" passenger service ran to Paddington (Bishop's Road), the line was shared with freight, and express trains to Birmingham (2 hours, non-stop). Until the late 1920s, Perivale was entirely rural, despite its proximity to Ealing. A similar halt was at South Greenford before it was modernised by Network SouthEast.
The station closed temporarily on 1 February 1915, reopening on 29 March 1920; and on 10 July 1922 was renamed Perivale Halt. It closed permanently on 15 June 1947,[2] in advance of the opening of the extension of the Central line from North Acton to Greenford on 30 June 1947.
^Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 339. OCLC931112387.
^ abButt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 184. ISBN1-85260-508-1. R508.
Further reading
Connor, J.E.; Halford, B.L. The forgotten Stations of Greater London. Connor and Butler. p. 77. ISBN0-947699-17-1. - shows a Lens of Sutton photograph of the station
