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Old January 17th 20, 09:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Marland Marland is offline
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Peter Able wrote:
On 15/01/2020 20:17, Marland wrote:


Though at that time the former Tram depot in between Chiswick and
Hammersmith at that time still had them visible as far as the gate. I think
they were still there when the fleet assigned to BEA link bus duties were
located there a bit later.




I don't remember a garage/depot between Chiswick and Hammersmith. Must
have gone before my time.


You almost certainly will have seen it ,possibly in one of its moribund
periods as a depot/garage.
Built originally for horse cars but rebuilt for electric by London United
Tramways who at the same time built a power station alongside.
Used for munitions manufacture in WW1 and ownership transferred to LCC in
the early twenties with LUT renting back some facilities until their trams
were replaced by their trolleybuses shortly before the formation of the
LPTB. They used it on a couple of occasions while work was done on garages
elsewhere providing a facility for Putney’s Motor buses in 35/36 and
Trolleybuses for a short period in 37 when a basic loop of overhead was
installed while Hammersmith was made ready.
It was basically just used as a workshop facility after that for the next
30 years along with the power station site which at sometime had ceased
generation but remained as a substation fed from Lots Road. The BEA fleet
moved in in 1966 and was their until 1978.
It was then returned to normal bus use in 1980 as Stamford Brook which
better describes its location,
closed again in 1996 and use as a store for vehicles held off the road but
returned back to a working garage later in 1999 which remains its current
status.
Meanwhile the adjacent power station has been turned into musical studios
and residential flats.
The power station building at least can easily be seen from the District
and Piccadilly routes just West of Stamford Brook station .

A short distance along the road towards Hammersmith in the era I lived
there when small there was also the terminus of the never successful
Hammersmith and Chiswick Railway still in use as a railway served coal
yard, and a shop whose window held a selection of interesting model trains
,non smaller than O gauge and many larger. Have never found out what it was
called or when it closed.
The Hammersmith and Chiswick went in 1965 and the land used for housing in
the 1980’s.
You would never know it had been a railway now.
The wiki on that line has a map which shows both it and the tram depot
before the power station and electric trams.

GH