please empty your brain below
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I think the penultimate fact is my favourite.
martin | 08.10.21 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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I first read the whole article through thinking the station was called 'Action Man' then had to go through it all again.
MO | 08.10.21 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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One zebra crossing post has two white bands and the other four, whereas the rules (Part I Traffic Signs, Section 2 a/b) for traffic signs seem to indicate that above 1 metre the entire post should have alternate strips.
Still Anon | 08.10.21 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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Is Neasden as far as you can get from Action Man for £1.60?
dg writes: No.
TomH | 08.10.21 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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As an occasional user of trains to Penzance, I am mighty glad of no. 9 !
Petras409 | 08.10.21 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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I find the lack of Platform 1 most intriguing.
Sarah | Homepage | 08.10.21 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Perhaps uninterestingly, another way to get to Acton Main Line is on a 266 bus.
Ian | 08.10.21 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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I can't think of any other stations called 'Main Line' though. That's something distinctive which I am slightly surprised has survived the Crossrail rebrand.
Alan | 08.10.21 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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Regarding the first item 10, is Acton the place-name included in the largest number of station-names in the UK?
dg writes: No.
Malcolm of Kent | 08.10.21 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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No.10 of the last group is too late - I went there on a whim a couple of months ago. I found it about as interesting as you did, so passed quickly on to Ealing…
Baldassaro | 08.10.21 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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"The ticket office has two windows, just in case a massive crowd ever turns up before 10.40am when it closes for the day.".
Sounds like a classic legal fiction if you ask me.
TheLupineOne | 08.10.21 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Your blog very often sends me on a dive into a tangential wormhole of random information. Today it's been the life and career of Leslie Hore-Belisha who, as far as I've read, had no direct connection to Acton.
Frank F | 08.10.21 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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For those interested in the original station building demolished in 1974, here's a photo.
John | 08.10.21 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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And the 260 bus Ian, so I have been Past Acton Main Line!
It will be interesting how much the "purple effect" makes people use it rather than the other nearby Acton stations (e.g. the Central Line West and North Acton stations)
Mikey C | 08.10.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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I'd imagine the "purple effect" will be considerable. Given a choice, who wouldn't prefer a smooth, spacious, air-conditioned whisk to Bond Street in 12 minutes (or Moorgate, Canary Wharf etc) over the old lurching constricted tubes? With 4 tph it's a no-brainer for me.
Strabismus | 08.10.21 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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Fact 2)5) seems empirical
Wolf | 08.10.21 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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Back in the 1970s, Action Man station (thankyou MO) was so little used that not only was it impossible to buy a ticket there in the evenings, but a ticket collector on the barrier at Paddington refused to believe I had joined the train there, even when I could prove I lived in Acton.
Timbo | 08.10.21 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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Obviously I have to respond to this celebration of Acton! Actin Main Line was always a great place for train spotting, as all the main line trains in and out of Paddington swept through it, though hardly any trains stopped there. One irony is that we've had several huge new housing developments in the area, all predicated on being 'handy for Crossrail', yet, despite the new station, the actual service is still going to be extremely poor and fragmented for some time yet.
Meanwhile, work on the similar new station at nearby Ealing Broadway looks as if it's been suspended, possibly because the government has pulled the money as punishment for Ealing abandoning a series of unpopular government inspired traffic calming measures. Not sure if the three other Crossrail stations in the Borough of Ealing are finished yet.
ActonMan | 08.10.21 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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The only time I've ever used it was around 1990 on my regular commute from Twyford to Paddington when the train I was on was terminated there due to a major signalling failure. While all the other passengers stood around waiting for something to happen I simply walked up the road to North Acton, got on the Central Line and was barely 10 minutes late for work!
David | 08.10.21 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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Other than Acton, are there any more locations having station names featuring all four points of the compass?
dg writes: no
entertained | 08.10.21 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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> Is Neasden as far as you can get from Action Man for £1.60?
With £1.60 of petrol, you might make it as far as Heathrow ... maybe
h2g2bob | Homepage | 08.10.21 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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ActonMan: Funding for stations and Crossrail has nothing to do with boroughs. Plus the threat of pulling funding only applies to future active travel schemes, which is frankly a bit counterproductive.
Graham | 08.10.21 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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I'm intrigued now as to how many other stations may have "Main Line" in their name. Farnborough's equivalent is just "Farnborough Main", I think.
dg writes: none.
cau1khead | 08.10.21 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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I was going to point out it's the only station with Main Line in their name, but have been beaten to it.
Instead all I can say is I once went to a pharmacy near Acton Main Line station and bought something medicinal. Anecdote ends.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 08.10.21 - 1:55 p.m. | #
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Checking on Journey planner, all trains go to Heathrow and none to Reading. The quickest way to Reading would be via Paddington but that is not offered as an option.
kev | 08.10.21 - 6:47 p.m. | #
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As I understand it, work has stopped on the 'public realm' parts of Ealing Broadway station, i.e. the outside bits, which was being done by the Council with TfL funding, which seems to have 'dried up'. Acton Main Line, and all the other Ealing Crossrail stations, seems to have been fully finished.
ActonMan | 09.10.21 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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