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This is one of those odd stretches of railway that it is very difficult for the lay person to understand what its purpose is! It forms the eastern side of the triangle of railways at Greenford and is a Network Rail line that curves off northwards and then eastwards from the line between South Greenford and Greenford stations. It then heads off back towards London paralleling the London Underground Central Line from Greenford past Perivale, Hanger Lane, etc. It is certainly not a route used by scheduled passenger trains, so possibly it is now some means of reversing trains in the Paddington area through 180˚. What is certain is that it is shown as the Great Western Railway's Greenford Curve on the Ordnance Survey's maps of 1920, long before any residential or industrial development took place in the area, and its alignment has dictated the similar curved shape of the more recent road to the east, the residential Conway Crescent. On the skyline in the distance, around the curve towards South Greenford, is a semaphore signal. This photograph was taken from the Lyon Way industrial estate.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>The lines toward Acton viewed from Greenford East Signal Box. Photographed under the supervision of Network Rail local management.
©Whatlep
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Lyon Way Industrial Estate occupies a triangle of land entirely surrounded by railway lines. Here a group of six silos stand next to Unit 1B.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>A sadly faded slide, looking south down the canal towpath to the glass works
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.4km<br/>A railway signal about 75 yards north of South Greenford station, looking towards Greenford. It was too dark to tell, but there may be an old fashioned semaphore signal as well as the normal one.
©Phillip Perry
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©Alex McGregor
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.4km<br/>This ancient unploughed meadow is grazed from May to October each year. View on open day. See [[1279643]] for more information about this nature reserve.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.4km<br/>The larger trees in this ancient woodland are ash and oak. There are thousands of coppiced hazel trees, also hawthorn, holly and rowan among others.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.4km<br/>This grass covered mound in the Little Elms Meadow area of the Perivale Wood nature reserve is a nest of the Yellow Meadow ant, Lasius flavus. An information board in the meadow and the nature trail leaflet say that these nests occur only in old grasslands. They can extend a metre down into the soil.
©David Hawgood
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.4km<br/>From the canal towpath. A very noisy spot - I think there was a conveyor here carrying recycled bottles to their doom
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.4km<br/>The signalbox is a rare survivor of mechanical signalling in the London area. To a Great Western Railway design, the windows and brickwork show that it has been extended (albeit in a style to match the original fabric) and a relay room added as this facility took over control of other local signaboxes. Photograph taken under the supervision of Network Rail local management.
©Whatlep

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