London & South Western Railway

These pictures have been hoarded for years - old postcards, family albums, calendars and clippings. Provenance is nigh impossible; some have been seen in other publications, and if they contravene any copyright please advise me and they will be removed. More will be added as they come to light.

The Windsor Staines and South Western Act submitted to Parliament by the London and South Western Railway Company, provided for a railway line from the then terminus at Richmond to Datchet. It received the Royal Assent on 25th June 1847, and opened in just fourteen months on 22nd August 1848. In the intervening 150 years, it is estimated that over 10 million trains have paused on their journey at Feltham Station, excluding through and freight trains and the millions of movements at the long-derelict Marshalling Yards.

Feltham Station opened 1848 - (28KB.jpg) 1910, the 7.50 Waterloo train Feltham West box and level crossing - (36KB.jpg) level crossing and footbridge, 1910 - (29KB.jpg) an early picture from the footbridge - (30KB.jpg) (82023/3MT) the last steam loco leaves Feltham, passing Feltham West Other scenes - (26KB.jpg) (180/O2) Feltham loco on shunting duty at Staines

Feltham Marshalling Yard 1917-1965 - (55KB.jpg) aerial view of the Yard, 1931 - (33KB.jpg) Yard Crew - LSWR, c1920 - (23KB.jpg) (516/H16), 1922

Feltham Concentration Yard was built in 1917 by German prisoners-of-war. With its 25 miles of sidings it was second largest in the country, equipped with two gravity shunting humps and repair shops for wagons and locomotives. It lasted little over half a century, closing on 6th January 1969. Today, it an overgrown wilderness.