When opened, it was the northern terminus of the Great Western Railway's Uxbridge branch from the main line at West Drayton. South from Uxbridge town centre, the line ran near Whitehall Road and Cleveland Road.
In November 1885, the Staines West branch opened sharing a short section of the Vine Street branch to connect to the main line. An intermediate station at Cowley opened in 1904.
The Uxbridge Branch continued to be operated under British Rail until 10 September 1962, when the service from West Drayton was withdrawn and Uxbridge Vine Street station was closed to passengers.[1][2] Goods traffic ceased two years later with the exception of the line south of the Grand Union Canal on which freight services were operated to the Middlesex Oil and Chemical Works in Yiewsley until 8 January 1979. Demolition of Uxbridge Vine Street station occurred in 1969. Hillingdon Road now covers its site.[2]
An Act for making a Railway from Uxbridge in the County of Middlesex to Rickmansworth in the County of Hertford, with a Branch to Scott's Bridge Mill, to be called "The Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway," and for other Purposes.
An Act to authorise a deviation of part of the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway; to extend the time for completion; to enable the Company to raise further Capital; and for other purposes.
An Act to authorise the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Company to abandon portions of their undertaking and to construct a new or substituted railway in lieu thereof and for other purposes.
A plan was approved in the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. lxxiii) and the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Act 1862 (26 & 27 Vict. c. xxxvi)) to construct an extension of the Uxbridge Branch to create a link northwards to Watford Junction in Hertfordshire via Rickmansworth (Church Street), connecting it to the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway (W&RR). The scheme never went ahead as the GWR withdrew its funding.[3]
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