I visited this outer London station on Tuesday - before Boris's fares
and improvement budget announcement on Thursday.

I was surprised to see a wood-slatted up escalator. I would have thought
all these have gone since the King's Cross fire.

Hoarding hid the down escalator. The Station Supervisor told me a lift
was being put in for step-free access.

Following this, I was surprised to read in Thursday's standard that
step-free access at Greenford is to be deferred - possibly sine die

I left by the First Great Western (FGW) service to Paddington which runs
at 16 and 46 minutes past the hour. It takes 26 minutes for 9 miles.
Is this the slowest rail service in London?
Just for fun, a misplaced bag at Ealing Broadway cost 5 minutes.

I found it interesting to see that FGW had much less PA there was than
there is on Underground lines other than the Metropolitan. i.e. The only
announcement reported the bag problem.
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Walter Briscoe