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<br/>Note facilities for both centre-, and outside-, third-rail power-collection.
©Ron Hann
<br/>More suburban-unit action.
©Ron Hann
<br/>A busy Junction station.
©Ron Hann
<br/>Old, rarely-used, double-headed (chaired) bull-head rail. This was taken from a train window. I think that the indicated location is correct but I am open to correction on this.
©Ron Hann
Dist:0.3km north<br/>"Match Of The Day" in progress.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©Baggy Suggs
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A 1973 stock entering service heading for Cockfosters
©Phillip Perry
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Community shops on the west side of the A4090 Alexandra Avenue.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km east<br/>This busy station has London Underground services on the Metropolitan Line, (City to Uxbridge) and also on the Piccadilly Line (Cockfosters to Rayners Lane, extended at peak hours to Uxbridge).
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.5km east<br/>Village Way East, Rayner's Lane, HA2 7LX. Internet sources indicate the pub will be closed down 21/Jan/2006. A shame, as it was a great live music venue.
©Baggy Suggs
Dist:0.6km east<br/>Viewed looking eastwards from the road bridge at Rayners Lane underground station, the tracks to the left are the Metropolitan Line to Harrow-on-the-Hill, the tracks to the right are the Piccadilly Line to Acton Town.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.9km southwest<br/>Viewed looking north eastwards, with Yeading Brook off beyond the trees to the right, the miniature railway is run by the Harrow and Wembley Society of Model Engineers. http://www.hwsme.org.uk/index.htm gives copious details about the history, rolling stock, running times, etc. of the railway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>This is one of several blocks of 1950s council-owned flats set back on the eastern side of Alexandra Avenue. The road name plate with the "No through road" symbol shows the way to Learner Drive, so-named as the houses along it were built on the site of the former Harrow Driving Centre.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Viewed looking northwards, Yeading Brook flows under the road at the bottom of the hill.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>Hidden away behind the flats on the east side of Alexandra Avenue, (visible over the trees here), is Newton Farm Ecology Park. This was originally haymaking farmland and then a Victorian sewage farm, and is marked as such on the OS 1940s mapping. A remnant of this area, alongside The Roxbourne brook, was not been built over during the suburban sprawl that followed the arrival of the Metropolitan railway line. Today the area is managed to try to bring back various species of wildlife that have disappeared. This is the pond with its small reed bed. A large part of the area of the ecology park is also designed to be a flood storage area in case The Roxbourne bursts its banks.
©Nigel Cox

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