Syon Lane railway station, on the Hounslow Loop Line

Hounslow Loop Line

The Hounslow Loop Line is a railway line in southwest London which was opened by the London and South Western Railway in 1850. It leaves the Waterloo to Reading Line at Barnes Junction and after some seven and a half miles rejoins it at a triangular junction between and...

, is in the London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

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 in west London

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. It is in Travelcard Zone 4

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. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains

South West Trains

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. It was opened in 1931 by the Southern Railway

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The station, which has no building apart from a passenger shelter on each platform, is on Syon Lane, which crosses the Great West Road at Gillette Corner

Gillette Corner

Gillette Corner is a crossroads intersection where the ancient road of Syon Lane crosses the Great West Road A4, on the border between Osterley and Brentford in west London. It marks the western end of the Great West Road's "Golden Mile" of classic 1930s developments in commercial and industrial...

. The two platforms are accessed by separate steps from the bridge carrying Syon Lane, with another entrance on the eastbound platform leading from Rothbury Gardens.
It serves a small residential area but most users are workers at one of the large developments on the Golden Mile

Golden Mile (Brentford)

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Hounslow Council proposed that the Hounslow Loop Line be part of the Crossrail route with Crossrail trains calling at Syon Lane station. but this was not included in the final route presented to Parliament in 2008.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station in trains per hour is:

• 4 direct to Waterloo via
• 2 circuitously to Waterloo via and Richmond
  Richmond station (London)
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