Isleworth railway station

Isleworth
Isleworth Location of Isleworth in Greater London
Location	Isleworth
Local authority	London Borough of Hounslow
Managed by	South Western Railway
Station code(s)	ISL
DfT category	F1
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	1.303 million [1]
2020–21	0.368 million [1]
2021–22	0.697 million [1]
2022–23	0.780 million [1]
2023–24	0.878 million [1]
Railway companies
Original company	London and South Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 February 1850 (1850-02-01)	Opened as Isleworth
1 October 1855	Renamed Isleworth and Spring Grove
August 1911	Renamed Isleworth for Spring Grove
?	Renamed Isleworth
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°28′30″N0°20′13″W / 51.4749°N 0.337°W / 51.4749; -0.337
London transportportal

Isleworth railway station is located in the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. It is 19 km (12 mi) west-southwest of London Waterloo. The unstaffed station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway.

History

A temporary station east of Wood Lane, 400 metres east-northeast of the current site, opened as "Hounslow" on 22 August 1849 to allow a service to run until the bridges, embankment, and station buildings were completed. The name was changed to "Smallberry Green" after four months. ^[2] The present station opened on 1 February 1850 as "Isleworth". It was renamed Spring Grove & Isleworth in 1855 and reverted to Isleworth in August 1911.

On 5 May 2023, work began on a £3 million project to improve the station and install lifts to enable step-free access to all platforms. The work is expected to be complete by early 2024. ^[3]

Amenities and set-up

The two facing platform lengths at Isleworth are constrained by a bridge over a road at each end and front-seven-doors opening is used for most rolling stock. Forerunner 8-car slam door trains fitted the platform lengths, as at two other stations along the line. A commercial street adjoins the station becoming Hounslow High Street within 500 metres, to the west. The more suburban district of Isleworth is primarily south-west of the station, comprising the "Woodlands" or "Worton" estate and a medieval riverside hub of Old Isleworth for which the railway station is the same distance as Syon Lane. Those parts of Isleworth north and east tend to be termed Spring Grove.

Services

All services at Isleworth are operated by South Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: ^[4]

• 2 tph to London Waterloo via Brentford
• 2 tph to Weybridge via Hounslow

Additional services, including trains to and from London Waterloo via Richmond call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction and westbound trains run to and from Woking instead of Weybridge.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Syon Lane		South Western Railway Hounslow Loop Line		Hounslow

Connections

London Buses routes 117, 235, 237, E8, H37, and night route N9 serve the station.

References

1. "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. V. Mitchell and K. Smith, Kingston and Hounslow Loops, Middleton Press, 1900, ISBN   0-906520-83-5
3. Booth, Janine (10 May 2023). "Accessibility improvements for West London station". RailAdvent. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
4. Table 149 National Rail timetable, December 2023

External links

• Train times and station information for Isleworth railway station from National Rail