"cj" wrote

* -was it South Greenford that had a platform collapse down an
embankment a good few years ago, which took an age for FGW/NR to fix?

It was. For ages [1] only down trains called, and there was a lengthy 5 mph
speed restriction
[1] The stop was omitted on up trains in timetables from 1995 - 1999
inclusive. Passengers from South Greenford towards Ealing Broadway and
Paddington were advised to travel via Greenford.

For a time in the mid-1980s off-peak trains did not call at Drayton Green,
as they tried to run a half-hourly shuttle between Greenford and Ealing
Broadway with one unit (presumably in those days a bubblecar.

In 1967 the off-peak service was only hourly. In the peaks the bubblecars
were strengthened with a 'Drive End Trailer', but the set which operated the
off-peak trains left its Trailer in the Ealing Broadway reversing siding,
attaching it again for the evening peak.

Peter