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Posted by Fytton on Mon Mar 14 09:34:07 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by David Fairthorne on Sat Mar 12 21:39:44 2005. "I don't think there's anything much wrong with Hounslow, but I wouldn't call it "upscale" either. Apart from the aircraft noise, it's just a typical London suburb that became built-up when the Piccadilly underground line was built in 1933"Hounslow isn't upscale. But it developed into a suburb well before the airport, with its noise, arrived. Subsequent additional development has been influenced by the airport's presence, with industrail estates occupying the noisiest areas rather than residential development. The Hounslow line was built by the Metropolitan District Railway to 'Hounslow Barracks' - now Hounslow West - before 1900, and electrified by them in the early 1900s. Piccadilly Line trains took over the line after the creation of London Transport in 1933 - one of the reasons for extending the Piccadilly Line past Hammersmith at that time was the fact that the District Line had too many Western branches for the capacity of its two-track main line through Central London. There was no actual extension of the original route in 1933. That didn't happen until 1977 when the extension to Heathrow Central (now Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3) station opened. |
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